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The California wildfires add to the growing tally of natural disasters that have upended the school year for thousands of students across the country. In September, schools in the South faced extended closures after Hurricane Helene swept through the Gulf Coast up through the Appalachian Mountains. The disruptions will be harmful to students for years to come, researchers say.

The number of English language learners enrolling in Pittsburgh-area schools has grown as immigrant families move in.

New York and some other school districts across the country are readying educators and immigrant families for a potential wave of deportations.

School districts across Los Angeles County have announced plans to close all or some schools as multiple fires spread across the Los Angeles area. In total, nearly two dozen school districts have announced full or partial closures. However, some that had closed Wednesday announced that they'd be able to reopen on Thursday, in spite of bad air quality.

Montserrat Garibay arrived in the United States three decades ago with her mother and sister as an undocumented immigrant, and learned English at a public middle school in Austin, TX. For the past four years, she's been at the U.S. Department of Education, first as the senior adviser for labor relations to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and, for the past two years, as deputy assistant secretary and director of the department's office of English-language acquisition.

AI can empower educators to identify language objectives within lessons and tailor instruction for MLs, fostering growth in content knowledge and language proficiency.

As wildfires in Los Angeles County continue to rage, one public library branch and two LA Unified School District schools are among the thousands of structures already destroyed. The California Department of Education has partnered with SupplyBank.org Disaster Relief Fund to help students, teachers, and school staff.

In many K-12 schools across the country, an alarming number of children have been chronically absent – an old problem that COVID-19 made much, much worse.  In California, more than 1 in 3 kindergartners was chronically absent. But the tiny town of Livingston, in California’s sprawling Central Valley, is an outlier – and a powerful lesson in the ways a district can proactively prevent wide-scale absenteeism.

In Lexington, Nebraska, where two-thirds of residents are Hispanic, hundreds of children lack access to high-quality child care from providers who can communicate with their parents. Something had to change.

Author Pedro Martín hopes to connect with all audiences who can remember being stuck on a classic family road trip in his graphic memoir, "Mexikid." His book won the Pura Belpré Author and Illustrator Awards, as well as a Newbery Honor Award.