Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation this month that exempts 4-year-olds from the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California, known as ELPAC. Under state and federal law, school districts ...

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 ...

Half of the students learning English as another language in Lake Tahoe Unified School District scored above the intermediate level, prompting a favorable reaction from district officials. But 50 ...

The California Department of Education’s press release about English-language learners’ scores on the state’s English-proficiency test reads about the same as the press releases on students’ scores on ...

As California’s non-native students showed improvement in English proficiency this school year, the same can’t be said for those in San Mateo County, according to the results of a statewide exam. In ...

“Program Testing English Fluency Faulted” (Dec. 9), on the new California English Language Development Test, stressed only the difficulties in this new test for almost 1.5 million students. Here are ...

Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if California is to narrow the wide and persistent gaps in math test scores between its nearly 1.4 million ...

Erika Garcia wanted to fulfill the opportunity given to her when her parents moved from Mexico to South Lake Tahoe. But it wasn’t easy. “You’re being pressured all the time to keep up with standards: ...