The Nevada State Board of Education has received two grants totaling $4.28 million to help assess students with limited English proficiency.
The grants will develop ways of measuring the proficiency of students in the English language in a way which meets the No Child Left Behind requirements and Nevada's academic standards.
The first grant is for $2.26 million and will be used to develop instruments to measure reading, writing, listening and speaking proficiency of students.
The second grant -- for $2 million -- will work on how the state can accurately measure improvements in the English-language proficiency of students classified as Limited English Proficiency.
Nevada's 17 school districts reported 40,131 Limited English Proficiency students in 2000-2001 and projects that total will rise to 55,448 this year.
