NYSUT's fact sheet on the NYSITELL exam

Is the special administration of the NYSITELL at the discretion of the district/building administrator or is NYSED requiring schools to administer the NYSITELL? The NYSITELL is required for newly enrolled and provisional ELLs who did not take the 2021 NYSESLAT. [...] For all other identified ELLs who did not take the 2021 NYSESLAT due to participation in remote-only learning, the special administration of the NYSITELL is at the discretion of the district/building administrator (depending on how the NYSITELL is normally administered within the district). [...] Would these students be allowed to participate in the special administration of the NYSITELL to determine their current level of ELL services? NYSED substantially extended the administration window to address the unique challenges of administering the Spring 2021 NYSESLAT to students who, because of the impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic, were receiving instruction in a hybrid model, attending schoo. [...] The special administration of the NYSITELL is only for ELLs who were receiving instruction remotely for the entirety of the NYSESLAT administration window and were unable to come into the school building on a sufficient number of days to complete all four sessions of the NYSELAT. [...] For provisionally-identified ELLs who participated in the Spring 2021 NYSESLAT, is forgoing the administration of the NYSITELL and instead applying the results of the Spring 2021 NYSESLAT for the purpose of identifying the student as an ELL and determining the level of ELL services at the discretion of the district/building administrator? If yes, what happens in a case where the resulting NYSITELL.