In the wake of a lawsuit alleging discrimination, the Hazleton Area School District says it has been doing the best it can to serve the area’s growing Latino student population.
The largest school district in Berks County – and the 4th largest in the state – will have two newly elected school board members starting this year.
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, which serves hundreds of English language learners in central Pennsylvania, received $999,000.
This school year the Baldwin-Whitehall district is piloting the Talking Points smartphone app that allows teachers to send translated text messages.
Advocates from the Philadelphia-based Education Law Center and other groups are pushing to postpone the exam, which is administered in person, since COVID-19 numbers remain high and the disease has disproportionately impacted immigrant, Black, and Latino families.
