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Posted Jul 12, 2022, 10:36 am
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
70% of Latino parents believe their children experienced significant learning challenges during the pandemic, and nearly half said they do not have people or resources in their community to overcome those challenges.... Read more»
Posted May 10, 2022, 8:19 am
Matt Vasilogambros
/Stateline
With primary elections well underway across the country, voting rights and immigrant advocates are raising the alarm about a lack of language assistance for voters who aren’t fluent in English.... Read more»
Posted May 25, 2021, 8:39 am
Brooke Newman
/Cronkite News
Democratic and Republican members of the House Administration Committee stuck largely to their talking points during a hearing on the effect that voter ID laws, proof-of-citizenship requirements and lack of language assistance have on elections, with one side saying the changes protect and the other side saying they restrict voting.... Read more»
Posted Apr 29, 2021, 3:07 pm
Martha Bebinger
/Kaiser Health News
Hospitals across the country have reported more hospitalizations and deaths of Black and Latino patients than of whites, and lower-income communities with patients who didn’t speak much, or any, English had a 35% greater chance of death.... Read more»
Posted Mar 1, 2021, 11:59 am
Maryam Jameel & Caroline Chen/The Center for Public Integrity
People eligible for the coronavirus vaccine say they are running up against barriers that are designed into the very systems meant to serve those most at risk of dying of the disease. Intentionally or not, some vaccine programs have been designed with inherent barriers that disadvantage many people who are most at risk of dying from the disease.... Read more»
Posted Oct 14, 2014, 12:47 am
Pat Wingert
/Hechinger Report
The rigorous new Common Core standards represent both a daunting challenge and a promising pathway that could help close the achievement gap for the growing number of American students who enter school knowing little or no English.... Read more»
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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»