Feds: Alabama Immigration Law Will Have 'Continuing And Lasting' Consequences
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a stark warning against Alabama's controversial immigration law, which feds say has caused "increased hostil...
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a stark warning against Alabama's controversial immigration law, which feds say has caused "increased hostil...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012
Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to sc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012
Minority students have less access to advanced courses, more inexperienced teachers and face tougher disciplinary consequences than their counterparts...
Posted 01.12.2012
In a move similar to ones chided by federal courts in Alabama and Arizona, one Kansas City area lawmaker has proposed a bill that would require Missou...
AP | By MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 01.07.2012
WINDHAM, Conn. -- As a parent liaison in a school district with a fast-growing Hispanic majority, Ana Lozada navigates a deep cultural divide: Parents...
AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 01.03.2012
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama's attorney general is questioning the U.S. Justice Department's legal authority to get enrollment information about a...
Posted 01.02.2012
The U.S. Department of Justice is further pressuring Alabama schools to abide by federal mandates that states cannot deny children equal access to pub...
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Posted 01.10.2012
This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...
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Sarah Garland
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Posted 12.27.2011
This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...
Posted 12.26.2011
This article is part of a weekly series published in partnership with the Boyle Heights Beat. It appears every Wednesday. By Maria Vera A mother...
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Sarah Garland
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Posted 12.26.2011
This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the second of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students ...
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Sarah Garland
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Posted 12.25.2011
This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. BALDWIN PARK, Calif. –- The end of the school day in Patty Sanchez’s kindergarten cl...
AP | By JAY REEVES | Posted 11.30.2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough n...
Patch | Sonja Sharp | Posted 08.18.2011
Every day for four years, Norma DeLeon Zarate would remind her son Francisco this day was coming. "For as long as I can remember, she was saying, 'Yo...
Sarah Garland | Posted 05.25.2011
In the next 20 years, the schools in need of the most help may not be the schools in inner cities like Newark or Detroit. Instead, they may be in far-flung suburbs and exurbs where immigrants are flocking.
Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011
By Ray Suarez On its face, it seems simple enough: Get states to compete with each other for enhanced funding for education from the federal governme...
Posted 05.07.2012