                           TITLE 20--EDUCATION
 
                   CHAPTER 48--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT
 
Sec. 3423d. Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages 
        Affairs
        

(a) Establishment

    There shall be, in the Department, an Office of Bilingual Education 
and Minority Languages Affairs through which the Secretary shall carry 
out functions relating to bilingual education.

(b) Director

                           (1) In general

        The Office shall be headed by a Director of Bilingual Education 
    and Minority Languages Affairs, appointed by the Secretary, to whom 
    the Secretary shall delegate all delegable functions relating to 
    bilingual education. The Director shall also be assigned 
    responsibility for recommending improvements and providing technical 
    assistance to other Federal programs serving language-minority and 
    limited-English-proficient students and their families and for 
    assisting the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Educational 
    Research and Improvement in identifying research priorities which 
    reflect the needs of language-minority and limited-English language 
    proficient students.

                          (2) Organization

        The Office shall be organized as the Director determines to be 
    appropriate in order to carry out such functions and 
    responsibilities effectively.

                            (3) Inclusion

        The Secretary shall ensure that limited-English-proficient and 
    language-minority students are included in ways that are valid, 
    reliable, and fair under all standards and assessment development 
    conducted or funded by the Department.

(Pub. L. 96-88, title II, Sec. 216, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title III, 
Sec. 372(2), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3978.)

                          Codification

    Another section 216 of Pub. L. 96-88 was enacted by Pub. L. 103-227 
and is classified to section 3425 of this title.
