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Iberia Middle School goes virtual on Wednesday, Dec. 13, so faculty and staff can attend funeral services

Security companies across the Ozarks are seeing more demand for safety training at businesses, churches, and schools.

BLACK people in Cheshire are seven times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white people.

A community in the southern state of Alabama is experimenting to find a better way to teach students who are learning English as their second language. To reach its goal, the school district is hiring more local, Spanish-speaking workers.

A northern Alabama community with large numbers of Hispanic immigrants is using federal COVID-19 relief money to fund an experiment to better serve students who are still learning English. They

An Alabama district is using pandemic funds to hire temporary staff to support English learners – and to show state legislators that with the right support, learning gains are possible.

RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (AP) — As part of an exercise to help the class learn English, a third grader pulled a block from a Jenga tower and read aloud a question written on one side. “Where,” the boy read, then slowly sounded out the other words: “Where would you like to visit?”

A northern Alabama community with large numbers of Hispanic immigrants is using federal COVID-19 relief money to fund an experiment to better serve students who are still learning English

A northern Alabama community with large numbers of Hispanic immigrants is using federal COVID-19 relief money to fund an experiment to better serve students who are still learning English

As part of an exercise to help the class learn English, a third grader pulled a block from a Jenga tower and read aloud a question written on one side. "Where," the boy read, then slowly sounded out the other words: "Where would you like to visit?"