By Mary Ann Zehr on June 28, 2010 3:10 PM | No Comments
The Obama administration has selected Rosalinda B. Barrera, the dean of the college of education at Texas State University—San Marcos, as the assistant deputy secretary and director of the office of English-language acquisition for the U.S. Department of [...]
By Mary Ann Zehr on June 25, 2010 3:25 PM | 3 Comments
The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators and the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute are calling for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to include a common definition for English-language learners.
In a report released this week with [...]
By Nick Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 2, 2010; 12:39 PM
House Democrats have challenged President Obama’s education agenda, approving a bill that would slice funding from his flagship school reform program despite a White House veto threat.
The war-funding bill the House approved late Thursday included a provision the Obama [...]
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This week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the
Education Department’s proposal to double the amount of federal dollars set aside for family involvement. The Department also proposed allowing states to use federal funds to hold a competition to generate the best local ideas [...]
By Khin Mai Aung
The much-publicized Arizona legislation known as SB 1070, a criminal statute allowing local law enforcement to demand proof of immigration status based on “reasonable suspicion,” is disturbing and xenophobic. It is a particularly heavy-handed development in a state where unprecedented anti-immigrant sentiment has festered for years. [...]
Updated 06/30/2010 10:41 PM’
By: Rebecca Spitz
A group of Muslim parents and their supporters gathered Wednesday on the steps of City Hall where they called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to recognize Islamic holidays on the school calendar.
The coalition of religious, immigrant and labor groups is asking the mayor to honor a [...]
