Secretary EL Resource Letter

As part of ED's Raise the Bar efforts to create pathways for global engagement, the Department is working to provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism while ensuring equitable access to a high-quality education for students who are English Learners (ELs), who historically have been underserved. In this letter, the U.S. Secretary of Education shares a number of resources from the Department on how to support students who are ELs. Schools have ongoing legal obligations to: make sure students who are ELs can meaningfully participate in education programs and services; provide meaningful communication for parents and guardians who have limited English proficiency (LEP); and ensure that school enrollment practices do not discourage or exclude students based on their or their parents’ or guardians’ actual or perceived citizenship or immigration status, among other requirements.