Educators look at needs of Hispanic students in New York

“Suburban schools will face new challenges in serving the growing Hispanic immigrant population ”” and shouldn’t serve up excuses, educators said this week at a conference at Manhattanville College.

Teachers, principals and community agencies met Thursday at the first annual forum of the Changing Suburbs Institute, a new project involving Manhattanville’s School of Education and seven Westchester County school districts. Their goal is to find strategies for teaching Hispanic students, who tend to have high dropout rates and less access to college education.

“Our Hispanic children are at risk, and not because of what they bring, but because of where they come to,” said Estee Lopez, an administrator at the New Rochelle schools. “We need to have the courage to see things freshly.”"

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