Leslie Villegas Save as PDF Public school enrollment in the United States is in decline. Over the last five years, the K–12 public school population has shrunk by 2.3 percent, or approximately 1.18 million students.

The Migration Policy Institute found 35 states and the District of Columbia offer native language assessments.

Districts will no longer be liable for "disparate impact"—in discipline, course access, or CTE programs.

California is expanding bilingual teacher pipeline programs to recruit future educators and address a shortage affecting dual-language classrooms statewide.

Dual Language Learners (DLLs) make up 32 percent of young children nationally. The U.S. and 30 state fact sheets here offer a sociodemographic sketch of the DLL population.

David Young, the CEO of Participate Learning, shares evidence for dual language programs supporting school attendance.

Springfield Public Schools is cutting Dual Immersion at Hamlin Middle and Springfield High due to budget shortfalls.

Conor Williams on what schools need to do to meet the need and face down a sustained federal assault on K-12 linguistic and cultural diversity.

New national survey data from this spring found increased absences due to immigration enforcement.

San Francisco is home to a large Cantonese-speaking population, with over 75% of Chinese speakers in the San Francisco Unified School district using Cantonese at home. There’s demand but no supply, with the Cantonese learning pipeline being cut off after K-8 despite a need for translated public services.

Each year, about 160,000 new California students are identified as English Learners. How and when these students are reclassified as English proficient is a key factor in their academic progress, yet many have likely been held back due to criteria that are overly subjective and onerous. We offer five recommendations to improve reclassification for this large population of students.

Williams: Some advocates fear that the science of reading is a poor fit for English learners, but there are ways to make its practices work.

The national professional development grant program has experienced upheaval in the last year.

An EdWeek Research Center survey found gaps in trained staff for dually identified students.

A 2021 survey of 125 U.S. organizations found wide gaps between family languages spoken and services offered; flexible, culturally responsive two-generation (2Gen) programs can help.

A new internal report warns the Education Department has lost capacity to serve students after losing more than 40% of its staff.

Conor P. Williams and Leigh Mingle believe it’s high time to move past warmed over reading wars For all the years of talk about “reform” and “disruption” and “reinvention” in K–12 schools, it’s sometimes striking how little has changed in public education over the past several decades. Most classrooms are still organized to face a […]

When Congress strengthened Title III in the early 2000s, the focus was helping students acquire English and access academic content. That goal remains important, but the classrooms of 2026 look very different from those of 2001.

Last year's formula funding delay has prompted some districts to budget more cautiously.

Arizona bilingual preschool policies rank among the nation's worst despite high bilingual student populations

TESOL and NABE join forces to host this month's 2026 Advocacy Action Days in Washington, D.C.

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