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September 13, 2006

Secretary Spellings announces new regulations regarding the education of Limited English Proficiency students at a Washington, D.C. conference of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO).

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Transcript: We're focusing on those students as we never have before, we have built an appetite for change and for improvement and for reform and for improved strategies and for better assessments and for smarter ways of serving those students.

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Transcript: We are pleased with the progress that we're making so far but we are by no means satisfied. We have lots and lots of work to do to serve our limited English students more appropriately and in better ways.

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Transcript: We had a lot of pressure to reel back the standards, to say 'let's take three years, five years, ten years, a hundred years before we're accountable for the needs of all students'. And what the Department has said today is that the two years that we have been operating under since this law was initially passed, that's still the standard. And we're not backing away from that.

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