In its blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Obama administration proposes requiring states to implement an evaluation system on the effectiveness of ...

Though ELLs who were in bilingual education programs in San Francisco lagged in the earlier grades, they scored similarly on the state’s academic tests and had virtually the same rates of ...

[Editor's note: Kylie is a journalism student at Western. She recently took a class where she focused on reporting news at a community level, where she focused on the Barkley neighborhood.] This year, ...

During a routine review of the Wilder School District in the spring of 2020 — before COVID-19 shut down schools — the SDE found issues in 18 of 23 areas of the ELL program, far more citations than in ...

Busing ELL students may pose problems as well. School District Superintendent Tom Andres doesn't think the recommendation would be followed and said ELL programs will likely stay where they are. "We ...

State funding for ELL is based on the enrollment numbers in the program from the year before. This year, the district has more than 40 students unaccounted for in the funding. The district received ...

PHOENIX — Tucson Unified School District will get a $1.1 million windfall after a federal judge on Friday ordered $21 million in fines from the state for not adequately funding English learner ...

As a permanent foster mother of an English Language Learner (ELL) at Charlottesville High School, I wish to shed light on the systemic challenges ELL students face in Virginia. Last year, my daughter ...