Jessica Suarez Nieto remembers being told in school at a young age in the early 2000s, “You can’t be speaking Spanish. You’re supposed to be doing English only.” “That really had an impact on me,” ...

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Westmont Elementary School’s Mireya Jimenez is named the 2025 Teacher of the Year for the California Association for ...