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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Education Week</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Groups Welcome New Federal ELL Official, Critique Policies</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Two organizations concerned with the education of English-language learners have written letters welcoming the U.S. Department of Education's new director of the office of English-language acquisition and critiquing current federal policies for ELLs.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Last month, the Education Department announced that Rosalinda B. Barrera has been appointed as the director of the office that has traditionally been in charge of policy for English-language learners.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Full story:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/07/groups_welcome_new_federal_ell.html</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>