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Posted Mar 8, 2022, 5:26 am
Olivia Sanchez
/The Hechinger Report
From kindergarten through 12th grade, students learning English are entitled to the resources to get them the same education as English-proficient peers, but what they receive varies drastically depending on where they live - and the path to college is largely uncharted and unregulated.... Read more»
Posted May 14, 2019, 1:32 pm
Kelsey Mo
/Cronkite News
Arizona has had a difficult history with providing adequate education for English learners, including a lawsuit against the state in 1992, a ballot measure in 2000, and what experts call a failed four-hour 'block' requirement.... Read more»
Posted Dec 14, 2016, 10:12 am
Alejandro Barahona
/Cronkite News
Thousands of new refugee children each year are putting a strain on Arizona's public schools, where the struggles of teaching and learning are weighted with hundreds of students who need to learn English — not only to succeed at school, but navigate a new country.... Read more»
Posted Jun 15, 2015, 9:05 pm
Soyenixe Lopez
/Cronkite News
A federal appeals court Monday upheld a lower court ruling that said Arizona’s system for educating English-language learners does not violate the federal Equal Educational Opportunities Act.... Read more»
Posted May 6, 2013, 12:43 pm
Connor Radnovich
/Cronkite News Service
Vince Yanez understands what the Arizona Board of Education could be getting in to this year when it begins a “systematic review” of the state’s English Language Learner program, Structured English Immersion, a state-mandated program that puts non-English-speaking students into English class for four hours a day.... Read more»
Posted Apr 1, 2011, 11:58 am
Lauren Gambino
/Cronkite News Service
School districts are likely to see increases in English-language learners and the costs associated with the program after the federal government demanded that Arizona change a survey it uses to screen students, school officials and observers say.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 28, 2011, 9:22 am
Jolie McCullough
/The Texas Tribune
Leslie Barnhizer teaches the only kindergarten class for English-speaking students at Balsz Elementary School in southeast Phoenix; the other three are English Language Learning classes.... Read more»
Posted Feb 22, 2011, 6:46 am
Lauren Gambino
/Cronkite News Service
At a time when one-in-eight students in Arizona qualify for English language services, the state has made controversial and—according to the federal government—possibly unlawful changes to its language education program.... Read more»
Posted Jul 20, 2010, 12:08 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
From the satirical website the Onion comes a photo commentary on Arizona's move to ban teachers with accents from teaching English to students who aren't yet fluent in the language.... Read more»