Education Dept. dissolving office for English learners

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.The Education Department plans to dissolve the office that supports the country’s 5 million English learners. The move comes as the Trump administration has called to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and to stop funding English language acquisition programs in the federal budget. The country’s English learner student population includes U.S. citizen children of immigrant parents as well as authorized and undocumented immigrant children, communities that are reeling from the effects of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.The Office of English Language Acquisition already was decimated in early rounds of layoffs. Last August, the Department quietly rescinded guidance that many states and school districts rely on to protect the rights of immigrant students. Education Department officials said dissolving the office and assigning its work to offices doing related