The growth in the number of students learning English is one of several ways the district is becoming more diverse. It might be easy to miss, but the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is changing.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sink or swim. That's the best way Linna Jordan can describe her experience as a new American in Ohio. "I originally came here in 1981. I was 8 years old," she said, "You were just ...

Students from Iraq, Mexico and Burma are driving an unprecedented increase in the number of English Language Learners at Lincoln Public Schools, prompting officials to budget $1.2 million to hire ...

Brockton Public Schools has seen a drop of 220 English-language learner (ELL) students compared to the previous school year. A school committee member attributes the decline to fears surrounding ...

Bay Area school districts stand to lose millions of federal dollars budgeted for programs that support English language learners, children of migrant families and others this fall after the Trump ...

The number of Michigan K-12 students who need help learning English in school is on the rise, but data tracking growth in those language skills varies widely around the state. The Michigan Department ...

Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh’s Public Source via AP Deepa Bardoloi, an English language arts and English language development teacher at Brashear High School, works with a student on Oct. 9 in her ...