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Today’s post from Larry Ferlazzo's Classroom Q&A is the latest in a series in which educators share potential challenges that might exist in teaching English learners and how to respond to them.

Beginning Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children will be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. That's because federal funding for individual Head Start programs cannot be disbursed while the government is shut down.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funding for grants that are meant to bolster school-based mental health care and were created in response to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Elementary teachers can focus on these fundamentals of child development to support social and emotional learning.

Every morning, Arely Solis packs healthy lunches and snacks to fuel her as a full-time student at East Los Angeles College. Thanks to federal food assistance, she says she can focus on her studies rather than on where her next meal is coming from. That will change on Saturday, Nov. 1, when the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal program that helps feed low-income families, will be delayed indefinitely for the first time in its history.

In recent years, Texas has received national attention for being one of the first states to ban all diversity, equity and inclusion programs in colleges and for ending in-state tuition rates for undocumented students. At the same time, the state has seen the number of first-generation college applicants more than triple in the last five years. Many of them are Hispanic. 

California education officials are tasked with a difficult mission over the next few months — finding the best way to figure out which 4-year-olds need extra help learning English.

Devan Chopra is reading to a pre-school classroom in Grafton, West Virginia. She's holding up the book Pete the Cat. "I'm here because I really want to spread the love of reading," she said. The high school junior came to this Head Start program at the Webster Pre School as a volunteers with the LiTEArary Society, an international group started in West Virginia that gets new picture books to preschool children to develop a love of reading.

This popular browser extension addresses two teacher needs — quickly generating customized sub plans and tracking the evolution of student writing assignments.

In an emotional discussion, Chicago school board members said district families are living in fear because of increasingly aggressive federal immigration raids, and some urged the district to offer virtual learning to immigrant students.