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Anti-immigrant rhetoric does not stop at a school's gates, even where many students are immigrants.
Sylvia Marquez graduated from SAISD a few months ago. Now she's working in one of the district's classrooms with hopes of becoming a teacher.
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.
Moving to the United States and not being able to speak English was difficult for young Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong immigrant. Yang talks about her isolation at school in her book The Rock In My Throat: “Recess is the hardest time of the day… I look at the sky. I look at the ground. I look at my feet. I look at my hands. I […]
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.
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Earlier this summer, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools decided to close Glenwood Elementary, which houses a popular STEM and Mandarin magnet program that attracted many Chinese heritage families to the area. This week, school board members will meet to discuss options for moving the program, which could displace many students at Rashkis Elementary.
In 2025 the Migration Policy Institute analyzed states' use of native language assessments.
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
“Dissolving specialized infrastructure does not eliminate the Department’s legal obligations to multilingual learners; it weakens the federal government’s capacity to fulfill them.” U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) led 19 of their Senate colleagues in condemning the Trump Administration’s attacks on the rights of English learners and the […]
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