The California Department of Education will soon announce the winners of a set of grants to local education agencies including schools, school districts, county offices of education and charter ...

Particularly, there has been a noticeable increase in the amount of English language learners. While Cy-Fair and Klein ISDs have increased between 8 and 13 percent through the last few years, Spring ...

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This school year, Roundy Elementary School in Columbus Junction, Iowa, stopped providing a 90- to 120-minute literacy block in Spanish each day for Latino students in the early grades who are new to ...

A recent Learning the Language blog post on California bilingual education is right: Things have changed dramatically since the dismantling of bilingual education in California caused by the passage ...

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Evadelia Aldape teaches in a first grade bilingual classroom at H.W. Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow is one of 16 MPS schools with developmental bilingual programs, which are aimed at ...

Four years ago, Texas lawmakers began offering schools extra money to support programs for non-native English speakers. Districts across the state immediately took them up on their offer, creating new ...

Proposition 58, placed on the ballot by the state Legislature, was approved by voters with a 73.5 percent majority on Nov. 8, 2016. The proposition implements the California Multilingual Education Act ...

Arizona’s ban of the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District was only one of many discriminatory education policies that our state has faced. Arizona’s English-only ...

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The pandemic slowed down many California school districts’ expansion of bilingual education programs, putting some new bilingual programs on hold. But now, several school districts are resuming their ...