Quest funding Hispanic heritage exhibit for students - Phoenix

Posted on: August 16th, 2007
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“The Phoenix Museum of History has received $10,000 from Qwest Communications to support educational outreach programs for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

New 30- to 60-minute presentations will be available to teachers at the beginning of this school year to help them teach their students about local Hispanic history and culture.”

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Still, there are issues in which a Latino lens slides into place. Education is one. It doesn't surprise me that Latinos consistently rank education as the No. 1 issue. It must be, when 30 percent to 50 percent of Hispanic students are dropping out of high school and Latinos are the largest and fastest growing population in the country. A plus B equals disaster.





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