The 2008 LEP Partnership Meeting was held October 15-16, 2008, in the Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, DC.

• Agenda
• List of Meeting Registrants

Meeting Documents

• Title III Evaluation Projects FY 2008
• U.S. Department of Education Press Release: NAS Study

• Supplement-Not-Supplant Letter
• Supplement-Not-Supplant Guidance

• Summary of FY 2007 and 2008 Attachment T Findings and Conditions on State Title III, Part A Grant Awards

• LEP Partnership Papers
  • Sight Translation of Assessments (By Charles W. Stansfield)
  • Standards-Based Assessment in the Native Language (By Melissa Bowles & Charles W. Stansfield)
  • Linguistic Modification (By Jamal Abedi & Edynn Sato)
  • Assessment of English Language Learners Under Title I and Title III (By Stanley Rabinowitz)

• Title I, Part A and Title III, Part A Side-by-Side Comparisons

• CSPR Changes and EDFacts (By Ross Santy & Meredith Farace)

• Enhanced Assessment Grants
  • Improving Methods of Aligning Instruction to Standards and Assessments for ELLs and Analyzing the Relationship of Alignment to Student Achievement
  • Evaluating the Comparability of Results of Test Variations
  • Validity of Accommodations for ELL Students With Disabilities in Mathematics and English Proficiency Content Assessment
  • The ONPAR (Obtaining Necessary Parity Through Academic Rigor) Project
  • The Alternate ACCESS for ELLs with Significant Disabilities
  • Achieving Accurate Results for Diverse Learners: Accommodations and Access Enhanced Item Formats for English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities
  • Adding Value to Accommodations Decision-making

• Guide for the Refinement of State Assessment Policies for Accommodating ELLs

• Summary of Title III Notice of Final Interpretations
• Overview of Notice of Final Interpretations presented at the LEP Partnership Meeting
• Notice of Final Interpretations published in the Federal Register, October 17, 2008: pdf - html

• Organization Chart: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs 
• Staff Directory: Student Achievement and School Acountability Programs (SASA)
• Staff Directory: Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA)

• AccELLerate! – The NCELA Newsletter

• Biographies
  • Panelists