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Dawn M. Pinnock

Commissioner

Barbara Dannenberg

Deputy Commissioner

Human Capital

Human Capital - Bureau of Examinations

The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building

One Centre Street, New York, NY 10007

Foreign Education Evaluation Services section that begins on Page 3.

• Refer to the Notice of Examination to find out whether you need a "document-by-document"

evaluation (general) or a "course-by-course" evaluation (which includes a "document-by-

document" evaluation) of your foreign education.

• The cost of evaluating your foreign education is paid by the applicant.

• Your evaluation must be received no later than 8 weeks from the date specified on the Notice

of Examination. If your evaluation is not received by this time, your foreign education will not

be rated and you may be found “not qualified”. An extension of this time limit is available if the

evaluation service submits an acceptable reason in writing for the delay.

• All acceptable foreign education evaluations submitted by the evaluation service directly to the

• If you are having a foreign education evaluation sent to DCAS for the first time and you are

applying for multiple exams in the same month, the evaluation service that you use only needs

to send DCAS one foreign education evaluation (document-by-document or course-by-

course).

As a reminder, a course-by-course evaluation includes a document-by-document

evaluation.

be accepted.

• If you previously had a foreign education evaluation done by one of the approved evaluation

services listed for another purpose, DCAS will accept your foreign education evaluation

provided that it is stamped “certified duplicate original” and received directly from that

evaluation service.

Additional Information:

In order to obtain an official confirmation that DCAS has received your foreign education evaluation

from the evaluation service that you selected, we recommend that you have a stamped, self-

addressed postcard included by the service when your evaluation is sent to DCAS. We will return the

postcard to you to acknowledge that your foreign education evaluation has been received. Due to the

your foreign education; if you prefer to select this option

Have the evaluation service mail your completed original evaluation to:

Administration, Customer, and Exam Support

1 Centre Street, 14

New York, NY 10007

1. Center for Educational Research & Evaluation (CERE)

140-30 Beech Avenue, Suite #1R

Flushing, Queens, NY 11355

Phone: (718) 445-2790

Fax: (718) 879-5871

2. Globe Language Services, Inc.

305 Broadway, Suite 401

Phone: (212) 227-1994

Fax: (212) 693-1489

E-mail: info@globelanguage.com

E-mail: [email protected]

450 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1107

New York, NY 10123

Phone: (646) 475‐2570

Fax: (713) 789‐6022

E‐mail: status@spantran.com

Outside of New York State

There are 10 approved evaluation services outside of New York State.

1. Center for Applied Research, Evaluation & Education, Inc.

International Evaluation Service

P.O. Box 18358

Anaheim, CA 92817

Phone: (714) 237-9272; 237-9276

Fax: (714) 237-9279

E-mail: evalcaree@yahoo.com

2. Education International, Inc.

E-mail: [email protected]et

Chicago, IL. 60610

Phone: (847) 477-8569

Fax: (312) 587-3068

4. Educational Perspectives, NFP.

P.O. Box 618056

Chicago, IL 60661-8056

Phone: (312) 421-9300

Fax: (312) 421-9353

5. Educational Records Evaluation Service, Inc.

601 University Avenue, Suite 127

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