State Superintendent of Education Thomas Bice is requiring all school districts to use a common enrollment form and follow the same set of practices that will not discourage students to enroll because of their immigration status or that of their parents.
Federal civil rights officials had been investigating complaints about inadequate services for English-learners and their families in the 46,000-student Jefferson Parish district.
Biliteracy "seals" that recognize high school graduates with fluency in two or more languages are catching on in more states.
White House officials say the additional resources will help stem the tide of unaccompanied child migrants flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border.
President Obama's press secretary says that few of the tens of thousands of child and youth migrants streaming into the United States from Central America are likely to be allowed to stay in this country.
The U.S. Education Department has awarded several research partnerships money to improve ELL student achievement.
Researchers have launched a new tool to help policymakers better analyze and report the needs of shifting English-learner populations at schools from year to year.
In its request to extend its waiver from No Child Left Behind, Florida seeks to return to its previous practice of waiting until recently arrived ELLs have been in U.S. schools for two years before factoring their scores on content tests into school accountability.
The Florida state board agreed to use English-language-proficiency standards developed by WIDA, a 35-state consortium that is also developing new assessments.
For the first time, students who are not native speakers of English outperformed their native-speaking peers on the English Baccalaureate exams.
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