Information about bilingual education policies, both at the state and national levels, can be found at the following sites:
 

1.  NCBE Resource Collection Series
These monographs from the NCBE resource collection explore current education reform efforts that relate to the education of language minority students.
 

2.  ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education

• A Guide to Assessing and Placing Language Minority Children (from Parent Guide) by Wendy Schwartz

• Links to abstracts cited in the article "The Assessment and and Placement of Language Minority Students" (from Digest) by Gary Burnett

3.  National Clearinghouse of Bilingual Education

• Linguistic Diversity and Reform:  Can Practices be Identified? by Adel Nadeau

• For All Students: Limited English Proficient Students and Goals 2000; Diane August, Compiler; with assistance from Kenji Hakuta & Delia Pompa (The following recommendations are offered to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) children are considered-and included-in sweeping proposals now embodied in Goals 2000)

• Public Law 103-382, Improving America's Schools Act of 1994. TITLE VII--BILINGUAL EDUCATION, LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENT, AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS

4.  California Department of Education -- English Language Development Standards
Good site with California's Standards and Assessment for English Language Development, published in both Spanish and English and set of questions and answers about ELD standards.  (You need acrobat reader to view these files.)
 

5.  Congressional amendment to Part A of title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.)
English language education. Complete wording of amendment is given. This part may be cited as the "English Language Fluency Act."
 

6.  The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs helps school districts meet their responsibility to provide equal education opportunity to limited English proficient children. This site supports bilingual education as a means to make it possible for linguistically diverse children to achieve the same challenging academic standards required of all children enrolled in America's schools.
 

7.  Center for Applied Linguistics
This very valuable site offers links, databases, clearinghouses, research and directories on topics that include Bilingual education, K-12 ESL and integration of language and content among others.
 

8.  The California School Board Association's Policies on ELL Students
This site has the association's position statements on: HIV/AIDS education; violence in media and entertainment; services for children of undocumented immigrants; school-sponsored prayer; California welfare reform; and education of English-language learners also discusses critical issues; conditions of children; curriculum and instruction; facilities; funding and finance governance and structure; professional standards; program and fiscal accountability and student diversity.
 

9.  http://www.hedgehog-review.com/NEWS/lep.html
This site offers concise policy and political positioning of education and specifically on bilingual education.  It includes graphics that detail budget break-outs of how money has been spent on education in California, as well as voter statistics, propositions and candidate positions for November 1998 elections.  Rich discussion on upcoming reforms and bilingual education issues that may face voters in future elections.  Offers "prickly" reviews of education software.
 

10.  http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/bi.html
A veritable library of research of the history, policy, and current publications about bilingual education.  An expansive listing of publication of books and other print media is also included.
 

11.  http://lmrinet.gse.ucsb.edu/lepexecsum/exesumtoc.htm
Review of the research on instruction of limited English proficient students, a report to the California legislature from the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute Education Policy Center at UC Davis.
 

12.  http://caag.state.ca.us/opinions/99-802.pdf
The Office of the Attorney General in California, Bob Lockyer, has a web site that shows opinions regarding issues in bilingual education such as parental waivers under Proposition 227.
 

13.  http://www.cde.ca.gov/charter/funding/title7.html
Title VII Workshops Program Purpose: The workshops provide information on the anticipated funding cycle for Title VII bilingual education programs.  These workshops provide technical assistance to applicants in the preparatory work for a competitive Title VII grant application.
 

14.  http://www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/bien/titlevii.html
This site gives information about Title VII bilingual education and other approaches to teaching English learners and other linguistically and culturally diverse students in California.
 

15.  http://www.cde.ca.gov/eabranch/federal_update/98archives/98.09.14.html
FEDERAL UPDATE September 14, 1998:  This site gives information about the House Approval of the Bilingual Education Reform Bill and much more.
 

16.  http://www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/bien/bien.htm
This is the California Department of Education Web page that focuses on the education of English learners—i.e., students with a primary language other than English who are limited-English proficient. It is designed to help educators, parents, and members of the community develop programs and related services that enable students to achieve their highest potential in California's schools.

17.  http://www.cde.ca.gov/iasa/standards/
This California Department of Education site offers information about standards-based reform and how it relates to bilingual education. This web page provides an overview of activities related to accountability, standards, and assessment conducted by a number of offices in the Department.