This week marked the one year anniversary of the massacre of children and teachers, most of them Latinos, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. A year after the tragedy, grieving families are complaining about slow progress in investigations and inaction in the state legislature to impose controls on assault weapons.

A California elementary school is drawing attention because more than half of its English as a Second Language learners read and write well by the time they reach the third grade. That’s four times higher than the rate for English language learners in the rest of the state.

(Español) “Las dudas ahorita son si califican siendo indocumentados. Pero no les van a preguntar nada de su estatus, este es un programa estatal… les pueden preguntar por el acta de nacimiento para verificar la edad del niño, o algún comprobante de que residen aquí en Colorado… no importa el estatus legal de padres ni hijos”.