New York State Association

                for Bilingual  Education

NYSABE - New York State Association for Bilingual Education

Our Mission

The New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE) is a multilingual and multicultural association fostering the awareness and appreciation of bilingualism and biculturalism as an integral part of cultural pluralism in our society. The goals of the association are:

1.       To encourage the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of quality programs in bilingual education.

2.       To promote bilingual education as an educational process by which success of students is enhanced through instruction in their native language while learning English.

3.       To foster the recognition by the total community of the importance of bilingualism and its contributions toward a better understanding of the cultural and linguistic differences among people.

Our Organization 2009-2010

President - Margarita Reyes

First Vice-President - María de los A. Barreto

Second Vice-President - Evelyn Arent

Secretary - Rose Colón-Cisneros

Treasurer - Betty Colón

Executive Director - Nancy Villarreal de Adler

Past President - Anne Henry Montante

Delegate Assembly

Region I/Long Island - Linda Scalice/

María A.Meyer

Region II/ New York City - Lorraine Estrada/

Dr.Lucia Buttaro

Region III/Mid-Hudson - Ray Sánchez/

Elda Pérez-Mejía

Region IV/Capital District - to be announced

Region V/Rochester - Yazmin Torres/

Carmen Bermudez-Merner

Region VI/Western New York - Rose Colón-Cisneros/

Evelyn Arent

Delegates-at-Large - Md. Abul Kalam Azad,

                                    María de los A. Barreto,

                                    Betty Colón,

                                    Cynthia Jonsson,

                                    Pat Lo 

Parent-at-Large - Carmen Alverio-Hope

Language Delegates - Amidor Almonord, Haitian

                                  Diana V. Hernández, Spanish

                                  Silvia Zaluski, Italian

                                  H.R. Chowdhury, Bengali

                                   Sushma Malhotra, Hindi

Executive Board