Aida Vega’s 13-year-old daughter, who has attended Los Angeles schools since kindergarten and is in eighth grade, still struggles to read and write English. Vega has long pushed for extra help so her ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. In 2017, the California State Board of Education approved the state’s English Learner Roadmap as a guide for school districts and education ...

California is, by almost every measure, one of the United States’ most diverse and vibrant states. The country’s most populous state, it also has no majority racial or ethnic group. And yet, from 1998 ...

MARICELA: CALIFORNIA’S ASSESSMENT OUTCOME DATA SHOWED A DECLINE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATH SCORE TESTING. RESULTS FOR SACRAMENTO CITY -- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT DECLINES RANGING ...

Young children whose first language is Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic or another language other than English could get more help in becoming bilingual in child care and preschool under California’s new ...

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Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

California schools will have to spend $2 billion of their remaining Covid relief funds on tutoring and other measures to help high-needs students recover from learning loss, according to a legal ...

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California is, by almost every measure, one of the United States’ most diverse and vibrant states. The country’s most populous state, it also has no majority racial or ethnic group. And yet, from 1998 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. They speak Farsi, Cantonese, Spanish and at least two dozen other languages. Some earned master's degrees in their ...