Immigration

Washington Post -   One year ago, the Trump administration gutted the Education Department’s Office of English Language Acquisition, which is supposed to help about 5 million students in public schools “attain English proficiency and achieve academic success.” By “gutted,” I mean cut 14 of the 15 staff positions in that office. Now the department has given Congress official notice that it plans to dissolve the office entirely.

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As of 2021, students identified as English learners made up 10.6 percent of the total K-12 population, and they are considered “the fastest growing population of students in K-12 schools.” As you might expect, a lot of these kids are children of immigrants, both legal and illegal, and speak a language other than English at home.