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In the latest effort by the Trump administration to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, it announced on Thursday that all staff will be leaving the department's longtime, Washington, D.C., headquarters in the Lyndon B. Johnson building, which the administration estimates "is roughly 70% vacant."

January's immigration surge in Minnesota was linked to debunked claims that many daycare programs in Minneapolis and in St. Paul were taking public money but not caring for children, putting the entire sector under a microscope. 

At least three states have taken steps to restrict undocumented high school students’ access to dual enrollment and career-technical education programs, according to documents reviewed by Chalkbeat. In one state, the policy was reversed following Chalkbeat inquiries.

After allegations that César Chavez sexually abused girls surfaced in a major investigation this week, dozens of schools named for the farm labor activist faced immediate questions they weren’t prepared to answer. Would they change their names? And how should they start these conversations with their communities?

Sanchez: Language access, cultural understanding and parent partnership are foundational, not supplemental, for special education systems.

Leveraging students’ home languages in the classroom with tools like translation can help make students’ stories visible. In doing so, learning a new language becomes fun for students.

A rise in post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses. Young children clinging to teachers in classrooms. School absences that turn into drops in enrollment as families leave town, and sometimes the country. These are among the mental health effects school counselors, therapists, and researchers say they are seeing nationwide as immigration enforcement activity has intensified in the country’s interior over the last year.

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Judith Larson’s daughter was in sixth grade in Los Angeles Unified School District. The family waited months for a school computer and internet access, so that she could join classes online.

Amache, or the Granada Relocation Center, represents the kind of difficult American history that many teachers are wary of broaching in the classroom: it was one of 10 sites where the U.S. government imprisoned tens of thousands of its own citizens during World War II. Addressing it wasn't popular back in the 1990s either, when teacher John Hopper first had his students send questionnaires to survivors. Under the leadership of teacher Hopper, the site and its stories have for more than three decades had an unusual set of caretakers: his high school students.

The top California education official renewed his call to return a deaf 6-year-old who was deported with his mother and younger brother to Colombia.