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A flurry of immigration enforcement activity in California’s second-largest city has sparked outrage among educators and local officials who have questioned the presence of federal agents several feet from school doorsteps. The ICE surge, they say, has sown fear and panic among families, and kept some students home from school.

The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children.

Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools District (MCPS) reinstated 54 employees who were impacted by federal changes to temporary protected status (TPS) for El Salvador, but warned that the reinstatement may not be permanent due to rapidly changing federal action, according to a Monday statement from MCPS to impacted employees.  

Family engagement is a critical part of education, and engaging with parents or guardians of English learners offers unique challenges and opportunities.

Latine Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15. Here are some recently published books, from bilingual board books and middle grade titles to Spanish-language picture book biographies and graphic novel memoirs.

Five years ago in 2021, EdSource launched Education Beat for the first time. Today, we say goodbye. This will be the final episode. Over the years, we’ve aimed to bring you personal stories of students, teachers, parents — regular people who bring EdSource stories alive by showing how education policy affects their lives.

Research shows that bilingual education programs, such as dual language immersion, effectively help English learners acquire the English language while also preserving their home language and cultural identity. But most bilingual education programs, in which academic content is taught in both English and another world language, only exist at the elementary grade level, leaving millions of secondary English learners without this valuable resource.

The librarians are not okay. We are crying in our offices around the world for someone who meant the world to us. Most people know Dolly as the famous singer-songwriter and actress. To the librarians, she was our hero. She was our champion. She was one of us. She started Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in 1995 to help provide books to children from birth to age five. Her father grew up struggling to read. She knew that many smart people weren’t given the tools they needed for literacy. 

Researchers and educators see strong demand for world language classes in U.S. schools, though federal policy changes may further complicate schools’ ability to offer such courses.