English learners are among the student groups most disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While school closures highlighted pre-existing challenges for these groups, educators nationwide have strived to innovate and transcend these hurdles, seeing some progress along the way.

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• California at center of latest push for science-based reading approaches
• State gifted ed policies crucial to access for ELs, students with disabilities
• Report: NCLB, ESSA spurred valuable accountability measures