Schools Falter at Keeping ELL Families in the Loop is a new Education Week article. Here’s an excerpt:

One of the biggest challenges, educators and advocates said, is communicating effectively with parents who don’t speak English—an issue that, in part, has brought recent complaints of discrimination against Latino students and their families to two large districts in North Carolina and one in Louisiana.

“The parent piece is so, so important for the success of these students, but it’s also one of the most difficult things we’ve had to tackle,” said Jim D. Rollins, the superintendent in Springdale, Ark., where the 19,000-student school system has gone from having no English-learners 15 years ago to more than 8,500 now. “You have to make it a priority and work on it, work on it, and work on it.”