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Since January 2025, educators and advocates for English learners and immigrant students have raised concerns about support for these populations, even as schools’ federal obligations to them remain ...

The Office of English Language Acquisition was decimated by layoffs. Now its work supporting the nation’s 5 million English learners will be absorbed by other offices.

At Pueblo Elementary, a dual-language school in Scottsdale, Ariz., students, including English learners, learn core subjects in both English and Spanish. The schedule looks like this: Students in ...

The number of English learners is shrinking at many dual-language immersion schools while the number of English-dominant and white students is increasing, according to a new analysis released by The ...

Bellarmine University has launched a new Master of Arts in Education (MAEd) program in Teacher Leadership in English Language ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, a staunch supporter of English-only immersion, is taking aim at the growing number of dual language programs in Arizona. Horne maintains dual language ...

A student walks down the hall at ourBRIDGE for Kids, an afterschool program for immigrant and refugee children in Charlotte. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

In California, 747 schools had dual-language immersion programs in 2019, according to the California Department of Education. Languages taught include Spanish, Arabic, Hmong, Korean, Mandarin, ...