Ted Purdom, from California, hated languages in school and failed Spanish twice. Then he found himself studying in Spain and now runs his own language school there.

Schools in Spain are either public, private, or semiprivate (known as "concertado"), similar to charter schools in the US. While Spanish is the national language, public schools in autonomous ...

In Texas, the League of United Latin American Citizens called for banning a female substitute high school teacher after a video showing her telling a student to “speak English – we’re in ...

The 13 elementary Spanish teachers are being reassigned to fill English learner positions required, but only partly funded, ...

Manchester High School "The people who speak Spanish feel more comfortable," explained Kennedy. “It's like a breath of fresh air to them when they realize I speak their language, because ...

Angela Ramirez, Executive Director of local advocacy group Puentes, says she often sees Spanish-speaking families struggle to sign their children up for school.Without “face-to-face help ...

Each wave infused American Spanish with local flavor. That’s partly because the language spoken in each country has unique characteristics, at the national and the regional level.

But a 36-year-old former gardener from California who flunked Spanish language at high school embraced his fate when a short-term stay on the island of Mallorca led to him finding the love of his ...