PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — As Rhode Island and Massachusetts schools prepare to administer the federally-mandated English learner proficiency test, educators are raising safety and test score validity ...

This story was updated on Oct. 18 to include comments from districts and on Oct. 25 to describe kindergarten absentee data as including students enrolled in transitional kindergarten. In the second ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

A number of Arizona students will no longer be classified as English learners after state public schools chief Tom Horne over the summer eased the standards for passing a test used to measure English ...