I was 3 years old the first time I mixed up Spanish and English. It would not be the last. It was 1975, and my family had recently migrated from Peru to Northern California. Shortly after our arrival, ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, marking the first time in the country’s 248-year history that the ...

President Trump’s executive order puts his “America first” stamp onto the nation’s speech. But the effect might be muted. By Jack Healy Reporting from Phoenix President Trump’s executive order making ...

The Trump administration is clamping down on other languages as it formally begins implementing the president's order making English the country's sole official language. Many government agencies have ...

It was the spring of 1985, and Californians were waging civic war on behalf of English. Some Monterey Park residents were pushing their City Council to ban Chinese-language business signs. Voters who ...

K-12 educators in the United States are still federally required to support English learners’ acquisition of the English language, regardless of any official national language designation. That’s the ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order naming English the official language of the United States. The order revokes a Clinton-era order that required federal agencies to provide ...