Metro Center is pleased to welcome the New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE) to the Center. Dr. Noguera has a long association with NYSABE and stated "We are pleased to have this fine organization as a part of the Metro family."

NYSABE is a professional organization that represents educators, parents, members of community-based organizations, private agencies, institutions of higher education, and advocates concerned with the education of English language learners and bilingual students in New York State. In this connection, NYSABE activities are framed within the following objectives:

1. To encourage the establishment, maintenances, 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.
   

NYSABE offers members a forum to establish relationships and strengthen linkages among educational professions, parents, government agencies, private and public educational institutions, advocates and community-based organizations.

Its director, Nancy Villarreal de Adler, may be reached at 212-998-5104. The website for NYSABE is http://www.nysabe.org/index.php