Raising the Bar for Students Through Multilingual Education
April 17, 2023 by Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, Ofelia Garcia, Eugene Garcia The U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recently laid out his three education priorities for the year: Promote academic excellence Improve conditions for learning for all students and Prepare all…
Fugees Family: Offering Education Opportunities for Immigrant and Refugee Students
April 10, 2023 by Manny Zapata Mauwa is a seventh-grade student at Teranga Academy, a school district partnership between Fugees Family and Bowling Green Independent Schools in Kentucky, where immigrant and refugee teens are provided up…
Eliminating Barriers to a Higher Education for Undocumented Students Is an Urgent Need
February 28, 2023 by Christian Penichet-Paul 
Key Criteria for Undocumented Student Higher Education Access and Success
February 22, 2023 by EdTrust Ed Trust researchers analyzed nine criteria in the 15 states with the largest shares of undocumented college students to determine whether state policies are helping or hurting undocumented students’ ability to attend college and how access and success for this underserved student population could be improved.
Higher Education Access and Success for Undocumented Students Start with 9 Key Criteria
February 22, 2023 by EdTrust Over 427,000 Undocumented Students Face Challenges in Higher Education, Workforce and Accessing Social Services New Ed Trust Report Finds How Government Can Provide Necessary Immigration Reforms WASHINGTON – Immigration reform…
3 Ways to Improve Educational Outcomes for English Learners in P-12 Schools
November 14, 2022 by Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos Like a growing number of students in the U.S., I learned English as a second language. My parents brought me to the United States from Mexico at the age of…
A Snapshot of English Learner Student Performance During the Pandemic
September 28, 2022 by Jazmin Flores Peña The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to student learning, as well as statewide assessments. Students have faced barriers to learning and engaging in schools, which has resulted in decreased…
How Schools Can Support Refugee Families and Students
October 13, 2021 by Wing Yi (Winnie) Chan The indelible images of Afghans hanging onto the wings of American airplanes at Kabul Airport and Haitians being whipped while attempting to cross the Rio Grande river have ignited intense…
Let’s Not Forget About English Learners: Targeting Resources From the American Rescue Plan for Their Needs
School districts are currently faced with a tremendous opportunity: to determine how to use over $125 billion of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act to ensure students…