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The U.S. Department of Education's "Raise the Bar" initiative aims to provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism, while ensuring equitable access to a high-quality education for English learners.

The U.S. Department of Education's "Raise the Bar" initiative aims to provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism, while ensuring equitable access to a high-quality education for English learners.

This resource features practices that districts and schools may consider in their efforts to increase access to advanced or specialized programs for students who are ELs. You can read more about students’ access to educational opportunities from early childhood to grade 12 in the U.S.

This fact sheet features data on English learners' high school graduation rates for school year 2019-20. It is important to note that the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted some states' abilities to collect and report graduation data.