Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District who are still learning English are becoming proficient in their new language at record levels. In L.A. Unified, 20.7 percent of the students who ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

The challenge is that children at this age are still developing language skills. In the past, students would sometimes cry ...

Santa Barbara Unified School District Superintendent Hilda Maldonado says learning a new language is a journey and that district students are on track. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo) More than half ...

For years, K-12 schools have grouped English learners in classrooms, driven by factors including limited resources and the ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English when they ...