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Greg García
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Greg García

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Greg García is a Research Assistant with MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, where he focuses on legislative and policy analysis related to the education of English Learners (ELs) and immigrant students.

Before joining MPI, he served as a Research Assistant at El Seminario de Investigación en Juventud at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, conducting quantitative and qualitative research on the impact of COVID-19 on Mexican undergraduate students. He also interned with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), where he tracked legislative challenges to the Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe (1982).

Mr. García holds a bachelor’s degree in public policy, Spanish, and Latin American and Caribbean studies from the University of Chicago, where he graduated with honors.

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Fact Sheets
March 2026
By  Greg García, Gloria Choi and Lorena Mancilla

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Fact Sheets
March 2026

Native language assessments are an important tool for measuring what K–12 English Learner (EL) students know in core academic subjects, independent of their English proficiency level. This fact sheet provides an overview of which states offer assessments in students’ home languages, for which subjects, and how this landscape has changed in recent years.