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California is now partnering with the Climate Mayors network to advance the Farm to School initiative, a program touted as a national model to ensure students have access to healthy school meals made with locally-sourced ingredients and support small and underserved farmers.

In 1979, Congress passed the measure creating the US Department of Education and recently deceased President Carter signed it into law. Now President-elect Trump has promised to dismantle it.

During his second term in office, President-elect Trump is expected to eliminate the Department of Education, push for private school choice, dismantle DEI programs and roll back protections for transgender students. What other changes to education are in the pipeline?

During his second term in office, President-elect Trump is expected to eliminate the Department of Education, push for private school choice, dismantle DEI programs and roll back protections for transgender students.

Part of the success of bilingual education lies in adequate financing.

The Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut, the first rate cut since Covid. Federal interest rates dropped in recent weeks. Will they continue falling in the months ahead?

Advocates for English learners are celebrating the signing of AB 2074 into law. They call it a big shift from the days of Proposition 227 and English-only classrooms. This legislation is a key step forward in implementing the California English Learner Roadmap.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign a bill called the Phone-Free Schools Act, which requires school districts to enact cell phone restrictions within two years.

Latinos are among the least vaccinated groups against the flu, but have 20% higher rates of hospitalization from influenza than other minorities. In response, public health leaders are launching a campaign titled “Risk Less. Do More.”

California has made considerable progress over the past decade in improving the state’s public education system and recognizing the gifts that English learner students bring to school.

California has made considerable progress over the past decade in improving the state’s public education system and recognizing the gifts that English learner students bring to school. But there is much more work to be done.

The city of Denver expanded the migrant support program and now hundreds of migrants are able to get six months of housing, food and utility assistance, job training and English classes.

Fresno State in California is known for being host to the largest Latino graduation ceremony.

A proposed state budget in Colorado boosts funding for K-12 schools and higher education, capping tuition hikes at state universities.

Proposition 308, allowing any Arizona student, including the undocumented, to be eligible for in-state tuition and state financial aid at state universities and community colleges, is in the Arizona ballot. In other news, the warden of a private prison and his brother, a county jail employee, are in custody charged with killing a migrant and wounding another one in a Texas border area. Were they hunting migrants? These and more stories are discussed in this edition.