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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.

Graphic novels by and about Indigenous people are a growing and important category. Here are some recommendations from School Library Journal.

This model provides scaffolded active engagement and opportunities for guided practice to help students master new skills.

Federal immigration agents pulled a teacher from inside a North Center daycare Wednesday morning, causing a chaotic scene and “traumatizing” workers, parents and children, neighbors and officials said.

A stunning novel-in-verse sheds light on an unheralded moment in American history — when a Mexican community triumphed over educational injustice.

Almost 1 in 4 students are enrolled in a dual-language, Spanish-English program in the Southside schools in San Antonio. So when the district embraced the “science of reading,” it prioritized figuring out how new practices could work in Spanish — and how instruction could best support students learning a new language.

As a kindergarten teacher, a big part of Violet Nye’s job  is teaching kids how to read. But the way she teaches her students is very different from how she learned as a kid. She remembers being taught to memorize whole words. Now, she’s steeped in the practice of teaching kids how to sound out words, while also building up their vocabulary and helping them lift words off the page to imagine whole new worlds from stories. A new law aims to get more California teachers to teach reading the way Violet does. It comes after years of advocacy and debate and required a significant amount of compromise.

After nearly doubling during the pandemic, the rates of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools are finally showing steady signs of improvement.