EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. If you look at English learners’ third-grade reading scores in English at Dolores ...

In June, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne tried to bar students classified as English learners from enrolling in dual language programs. He sent a letter to schools threatening to ...

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. As California expands transitional kindergarten, English ...

Students with disabilities face a gamut of challenges when it comes to accessing high-quality K-12 education, including a shortage of specialized teachers. The nation’s growing English-learner ...

The committee examined how evidence based on research relevant to the development of dual language learners/English learners from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related ...

The Arizona Supreme Court declined to review Tom Horne's lawsuit against ten school districts for allowing dual language programs.

Montserrat Garibay arrived in the United States three decades ago with her mother and sister as an undocumented immigrant, and learned English at a public middle school in Austin, Texas. Later on, she ...

About 60% of California children under five speak a language other than English at home, according to research. In order to support them, the state Department of Education teamed up with a nonprofit ...

Pasco School District is expanding its dual language program, and for the first time starting this school year will offer it at all 17 of its elementary schools. That means most K-5 students will have ...

Arizona Schools Chief Tom Horne does not have the authority to withhold funding from schools that offer dual language programs, Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a legal opinion issued Monday, a ...

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