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Multistate Association for Bilingual Education, Northeast

A nonprofit organization for educators, families, and policy makers

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Advocacy 

(Being understood) combines respect for all participants with the courage to speak your voice, share your insights, and advance the dialogue towards a new understanding of the whole. (L. R. Beaumont)


COALITIONS, PARTNERSHIPS & WORKING GROUPS


Advisory Boards

MABE Board members are representatives on the following state education advisory councils:


Bilingualism is a GIFT! 

  • An initiative by the Watertown Public School (MA) encouraging families to use their home language everyday.


Highlighted News Brief Regarding Covid-19

BOSTON, MA – August 13, 2020 – As district and school leaders prepare for the start of an unprecedented school year, the Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership has released a brief entitled “Keeping Equity at the Forefront: Returning to School.” The brief urges districts to shift focus from reopening school buildings to ensuring that students continue to learn and that family needs are met – regardless of where kids are learning from.

    MASSACHUSETTS Legislation

    An Act Relative to Certification of Interpreters in Educational Settings (HD 2334 (Re. Cabral) /SD 347(Sen. Welch)

    Creates standards and competencies for the training, hiring and use of interpreters in educational settings in order to provide limited English proficient (LEP) parents and students with competent interpretation services, as required by federal and state law. 

    An Act Relative to Opportunity for Students (Student Opportunity Act)

    The bill  addresses long-standing funding inequities between the Commonwealth’s highest need and wealthier districts, but prompts all districts to take critical steps to address persistent disparities in opportunity and achievement. 

    Number One for Some

    The Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership,  has released a report titled Number One for Some, Opportunity and Achievement in Massachusetts. The report gathers and highlights critical disparities facing Black, Latino, and low-income students who continue to have a dramatically different experience in Massachusetts’ schools than their White and higher-income peers.


    Multistate Association for Bilingual Education - Northeast



    MABE-Northeast, PO Box 281 

    Ashland, MA 01721

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