January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. In the push to screen all California ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Students across California who speak another language at home are starting to take ...

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San Francisco students learning English are holding steady when it comes to achieving fluency — while peers statewide are showing gains, according to data released Wednesday by the California ...

When California voters passed Proposition 227 in 1998, opponents of the measure predicted it would be a disaster for students whose primary language is not English. But according to the latest test ...

About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English when they first started school — 1,918,385 students — according to data ...

Countywide, English learners stayed about even this year in English proficiency with their performance last year, according to this year's English language assement test. On Friday, the California ...