DIRECTORS OF WHITE HOUSE HISPANIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE, NATIONAL HEAD START TO VISIT LOS ANGELES COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION

Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House Initiative for Excellence in Hispanic Education, and Yvette Sanchez Fuentes, national director of the Office of Head Start in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will meet Friday at the Los Angeles County Office of Education in Downey with more than 250 school leaders to provide updates and get feedback on the Obama administration’s efforts to promote educational excellence for Hispanic Americans and all students.

Who:
Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House Initiative for Excellence in Hispanic Education Yvette Sanchez
Fuentes, national director of the Office of Head Start, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

What:
Directors Sepulveda and Sanchez Fuentes will meet with more than 250 school leaders to provide updates and get feedback on the Obama administration’s efforts to promote educational excellence for Hispanic Americans and all students.

Where:
Los Angeles County Office of Education, Board Room, 9300 Imperial Highway, Downey, Calif.

When:
Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
9:30-10 a.m. — News media briefing

10 a.m.-1 p.m. ( closed ) — Sepulveda will remain in the Board Room for a closed-door “group conversation” with local superintendents and board members.

10:15-11 a.m. — Sanchez Fuentes will visit with staff, parents and children at the Plaza de la Raza Head Start preschool across the street in the L.A. County education office’s Education Center West Building. “

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