Florida Atlantic University professors have been training Osceola County prekindergarten teachers techniques for teaching English since 2023.

But the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Education have university officials concerned about the program’s future.

The federally funded initiative aims to improve the quality of English language instruction in pre-K classrooms to help students struggling with the language expand their vocabulary before kindergarten. So far, the program has proved fruitful. But FAU officials are questioning if they’ll get the additional funding that was promised under the Biden administration needed to continue the work.

Students taught by teachers who got the extra training saw an improvement of about 18 points on their early reading assessments.

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