Education is top issue in Latino poll on ’08 – Maria Elena Salinas
Tagged: dropout rate, Maria Elena Salinas, studentPosted on: August 9th, 2007“Thousands of young people are getting ready to go back to school this month. Unfortunately, thousands more are not. For whatever reason we can find in the long list of excuses that kids have for choosing to drop out of school, the fact is that each year 1.2 million high school students do not graduate. The rate is highest among Latino students.
The high dropout rate, it turns out, is considered the greatest educational problem for the Latino community in the United States. As a matter of fact, education itself is significantly more important to Latinos than other issues that make bigger headlines, like Iraq, terrorism, health care and even immigration.”
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