In 2024 alone, Festa and its over 2,000 volunteers served 1,934 children and 1,327 families from 71 countries.

The melody of kids singing O Canada in Cree rings through Joe A. Ross School’s intercom speakers and echoes through the ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. President Donald Trump has declared English the official language of the United States. But his ...

A national early-education program empowers parents from disadvantaged backgrounds to be their child's first teacher, ...

While PBS itself won’t shut down anytime soon, they have now lost their largest source of financial support. This loss more directly impacts the local stations that viewers turn to. Not only does PBS ...

When Abdul Zaman's family resettled in Erie in January 2022 after Kabul, Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban, he said his children weren't afraid of their new surroundings. "They were excited when they ...

Growing numbers of immigrant students and other English language learners need extra support to catch up academically after the COVID pandemic, presenting special challenges to some Lower Hudson ...

Yakima and Kittitas county families can now have children’s books in English and Spanish sent to their homes through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. In June, the Imagination Library expanded ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District board passed a controversial resolution in May that places deaf and hard of hearing children in a bilingual American Sign Language and English program. But ...

Third graders in the Newcomer Program at Albany International Academy work on math problems during class on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. Fourth-grade teacher Donna Nieman instructs students ...

Jennifer Vidales struggled with English in the second grade, when she began attending Desert Springs Elementary School in Nampa after transferring mid-school year. With little communication and no ...