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The 5-year-old boy who spent nearly two weeks detained by immigration authorities now wakes up crying during the night, terrified his family could be separated again, his father told Noticias Telemundo.

Today’s post is the final one in a series where educators share potential challenges that might exist in teaching English Learners, and how to respond to them.

A new bill would help Colorado students get recognition at graduation for being fluent in more than one language. Colorado lawmakers created a process in 2017 for districts to create a seal of biliteracy to be awarded at graduation. Students earn the endorsement if they show proficiency in English and another language through grades and tests.

University leaders say Chico State is losing more than $3 million in federal funds, as part of a larger cancellation of more than $350 million in grants to minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Now, around the country, those colleges are hustling to find ways to replace or do without the money, which covered such things as research grants, laboratory equipment, curricular materials and student support programs — budget items whose benefits extended to all students, not only Hispanic students or those from other ethnic groups.

Encouraging students to ‘look out for each other on purpose’ has a powerful impact. These classroom and schoolwide strategies will help you get started.

More than two-thirds of U.S. high school principals have reported ripple effects from immigration enforcement fears in the past school year, according to a survey by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access.

In August 1920, a young woman named Pura Belpré traveled from Puerto Rico to New York City to attend her sister’s wedding —a trip that would not only change the course of her own life, but have a ripple effect on the field of children’s literature for decades to come.

A year after the Department of Homeland Security rescinded a policy limiting operations in and around schools, agents are not raiding schools, but immigration enforcement has nearly arrived at the schoolhouse door. There are reports of parents getting detained at bus stops and images of agents tackling people on school grounds.

Some of those places adjacent to schools would have been off-limits under the previous policy, raising questions about where the federal government will draw the line and putting pressure on school leaders to reassure families.

The first five years of a child’s life are among the most critical for their development. Those years lay a foundation and prepare them for kindergarten, often setting them up for success throughout school and beyond. But immense disparities exist in whether parents across the country report their child as ready for kindergarten, new data from the National Survey for Children’s Health shows.

Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s teachers’ union filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop immigration agents from carrying out enforcement activity at or near schools.