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As students filed out of East Mecklenburg High School Wednesday morning for early dismissal, they passed by a smiling Anita Blanchard, standing on the corner of Monroe Road and Conference Drive, with a megaphone in hand and a whistle around her neck. Since Border Patrol agents arrived in Charlotte,  parents and community volunteers have been seen standing at street corners near several schools across the region.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials say 20,935 students were absent from school Monday, the first school day since U.S. Border Patrol began conducting operations in the Charlotte area.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly being integrated into many facets of life, including in America’s classrooms. As more school districts integrate AI into learning, we hear from parents and teachers grappling with the use of the technology in the classroom, and Stephanie Sy discusses more with Justin Reich, author of "Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education."

New polling data found that Latino families in California have a particularly high interest in bilingual education and dual-language immersion programs, reinforcing national data on families’ demand for multilingualism in schools.

The deal Congress reached to re-open the federal government requires the Trump administration to reinstate federal workers who were fired in October, including those charged with overseeing the nation's special education laws. But it's not clear how long they'll be back.

The Livingston Union School District improved chronic absenteeism, suspensions and student well-being by investing in school counselors, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. 

Taking lessons outside can help elementary students feel more connected to and excited about the content they’re learning.

For months now, April Leachman, a middle school science teacher in Dallas, Ga., has been addressing fears and concerns from her immigrant students over the possibility of federal immigration agents coming to their school.

Miliani Rodriguez is a senior at Coachella Valley High School. The school buildings are old, she says, and they show it. The air conditioning often breaks in over 100-degree heat. When it rains, the ceilings leak. The sinks in her ceramics classroom broke and flooded the classroom.

Miliani thought these kinds of things were normal, after attending school in the Coachella Valley Unified School District since kindergarten. But last year she visited her cousin's high school, just a couple of miles away from her, and found modern buildings, spacious athletic fields, and working air conditioning.

Texas officials are making progress toward creating a new bilingual special education teacher certification, which advocates hope will set a national example for states serving students dually identified as English learners and students with disabilities.