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“Sesame Street” is ramping up its focus on autism with a collection of new resources and additional efforts at its theme parks.

As Colorado prepares to roll out universal preschool, a new taxpayer-funded program starting in the next school year that offers preschool hours for free to all 4-year-olds and some younger children, officials have given priority to children who don’t speak English at home. The state will offer those children more hours of tuition-free preschool and is promising — for the first time — that programs will need to use teaching strategies proven to help multilingual learners.

April is National Arab American Heritage Month. To recognize Arab Americans and the Muslim religion and to dispel misconceptions about both, Larry Ferlazzo asked Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi to take the reins of today’s post.

Every weekday at 5280 High School in Denver starts the same way. Students in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction gather on the steps of the school's indoor auditorium to discuss a topic chosen by staff members. One recent morning, they talked about mental health and sobriety. The school's mission is to help kids learn to live a substance-free life while receiving an education. This includes attending recovery meetings and wellness activities, and taking traditional high school classes like English, math, and Spanish.

Los Angeles Unified School District workers have approved a labor deal following a three-day strike over wages and staffing that halted education for students in one of the nation's largest school systems.

Inspired by service programs from earlier eras, the College Corps program puts low-income, first-generation students to work in education, food insecurity and climate mitigation.

Colorado would guarantee the right of Native American students to wear items such as eagle feathers and other traditional clothing at graduation ceremonies through a bill under consideration this year. Federal law protects Native American religious and cultural rights. But students sometimes run into issues or find flat-out prohibition at schools when it comes to wearing regalia at ceremonies, advocates say. They say families must then fight to make districts aware of the importance of traditional clothing. Or students running into a lack of understanding might choose to skip graduation ceremonies altogether.

These six beautiful books share traditions and family stories related to Ramadan and Eid.

If you find yourself in Jenny Yang’s third-grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary in southeast Fresno, you’ll hear students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the mornings in the Hmong language. Her classroom is one that’s home to Fresno Unified School District’s Hmong Dual Language Immersion program. After launching in 2018 in response to demands from Fresno’s Hmong community — the second-largest in the country, behind the Hmong population in Minnesota’s Twin Cities — the program is already showing social-emotional and academic benefits.