Education + Community Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 20, 2009

Black, Hispanic Parents Say They Don’t Feel Welcome In Schools – Hartford, Connecticut

November 19, 2009

Over the last 3 years, high schools that received the lowest marks from the city have been the ones with the highest percentages of poor, black and Hispanic students, despite an evaluation system that was meant to equalize differences among student bodies, according to an analysis by The New York Times of school grades released this week.

November 16, 2009

Program helps Latino families bond over books – A literacy class in Los Osos teaches parents to develop reading routines with their kids while improving their own skills and English language abilities at the same time – California

November 13, 2009

Santa Barbara School Board Weighs In on Future of Cesar Chavez Charter School

Durham Latinos will likely have a better pipeline to President Obama after weighing in Thursday on how to improve education for Hispanic Americans. – Leading a ”community conversation” at El Centro Hispano on Main Street was Juan Sepulveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.

November 11, 2009

Residents tell how to improve Latino education opportunity – Yakima, WA

A new program is helping Latino families in Los Osos. The Latino Family Literacy Program is an eight week program. It’s the second time this year it’s been conducted through the San Luis Coastal Unified School District.

November 4, 2009

Study finds Lehigh Valley’s Hispanic students are progressing – But struggles persist in areas such as reading. Valley area review is called ‘eye-opening’ – Pennsylvania

Lehigh Valley public schools have experienced growth in population of Latino students over past decade – Pennsylvania

NLEI and NLU partner to meet Latino community’s specific educational needs – Illinois

October 30, 2009

Salinas Latinos target of educational TV show

SoMoCoCAT Offers Latino Farmworker Communities Free Digital Media Training – California

October 17, 2009

The Howard County School System and an advocacy group that focuses on Hispanic student achievement plan to renew a partnership Friday with the hopes of lowering dropout rates and encouraging academic success. – Maryland

October 14, 2009

Three lives and a literate city’s shame – Julia Rodriguez, Juan Contreras and Mercedes Meza couldn’t read or write. For years they got by with the help of friends and good memories for the sorts of sights that differentiated streets.

October 9, 2009

Scholarship Program Aims To Keep Hispanic Students In School in Kansas City – (video) – About 50% of Hispanic students in the school district will drop out

October 2, 2009

On Thursday, the Community Foundation of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County announced a nearly $1 million endowed scholarship in Samuel R. Bowman’s name to help educate local Hispanic students. – Virginia

September 21, 2009

Quinceanera class readies girls for Catholic coming of age in Kalamazoo, MI

Latino feuds hold back schooling in Colorado

September 15, 2009

Voces de la Frontera, a Latino and immigrant worker rights group, opposes the proposed mayoral takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools, executive director Christine Neumann-Ortiz said Monday

September 3, 2009

10,000 Latinos Learning to Read by 2010 – Centro Latino for Literacy kicks off 10 x 10 campaign to enroll adult Latinos to its web-based Leamos literacy program – Los Angeles County

Stockton Superintendent’s efforts to keep drop-outs in school has more resistance from adults than kids

August 27, 2009

Whittier Hispanic Outreach Taskforce helping kids get ready for school

August 26, 2009

Charter school finds welcome mat in Denver – Cesar Chavez Academy

Hispanic Business Association collecting donations for teacher program – Idaho

August 25, 2009

Planned charter school seeks to address Hispanic dropouts – Las Cruces, New Mexico

August 21, 2009

Denver Latino groups launch campaign for schools

The director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans will visit Sacramento Saturday to gather information to update the program. Juan Sepulveda

August 17, 2009

Part of President Barack Obama’s education team is traveling through California this week to talk about which reforms are needed to help Latino students. The first stop was in San Diego on Sunday at San Diego Mesa College. – Juan Sepulveda

The Southwest Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce announced today it will host University Day in Estero.

August 5, 2009

A group of Topekans are ready to launch a program to encourage Latino high school students to not only earn their diplomas but also get college degrees and take on leadership roles in their community.

August 3, 2009

KC-area Latinos air concerns about education in forum with White House adviser Juan Sepulveda

July 31, 2009

Celebrity Tees You Can Bet On – One-of-a-kind t-shirts raise funds for Miami’s Latino community – Palomita Education Fund

Hispanic enrollment at colleges and universities in Texas would need to almost double by 2015 to meet the state’s higher education goals – Poverty, lack of health insurance, other social ills complicate the challenge.

July 20, 2009

No go for local bilingual charter school in Austin – Supporters say approval process is tough, haven’t given up on the program

July 14, 2009

Latino Liaisons Hit Hard by School Cuts In Prince George, Maryland

June 25, 2009

Hispanics make up majorities at 7 Cleveland public schools, prompting call for special help

June 23, 2009

Raza Studies helps teacher understand kids – Tucson Unified School District

June 16, 2009

Growing contingent of Latino students making their mark – Nashua, New Hampshire

June 15, 2009

Latino test scores rise as South Bay schools tackle the achievement gap – San Jose area

No Longer Letting Scores Separate Pupils – (interesting article about Stamford, Connecticut) – the longstanding system for tracking children by academic ability for more effective teaching evolved into an uncomfortable caste system in which students were largely segregated by race and socioeconomic background, both inside and outside classrooms.

May 28, 2009

The children of Hispanic migrant farm workers in a sparsely populated area of central Florida finally have access to a pre-school and can now dream of becoming doctors, teachers or nurses. – Mulberry, Florida

May 7, 2009

One of San Jose’s oldest, largest and most politically powerful Latino community organizations is under investigation for improperly diverting tens of thousands of dollars in retirement funds for employees at its two charter schools in San Jose and Gilroy.

Many Montgomery County Latino Teens In Crisis, Say Leaders, Survey Graduation Rates Lower Than in Other Groups – Virginia

April 27, 2009

Chicago school in Hispanic neighborhood being extra vigilant amid concerns of swine flu

March 19, 2009

With cash incentives, they save for college – Benefactor aids Hispanic families – La Vida Scholars program in Lynn, Massachusetts

December 18, 2008

Joliet Latinos urged to apply for seats on District 86 school board – Community activists seeking to increase Latino influence on public bodies

December 2, 2008

Hispanic students and parents in the Fresno Unified School District have lost a long-time advocate on the board with the defeat of Manuel Núñez in the November election, some community members say.

November 19, 2008

Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz on Tuesday announced a citywide security program for schools following widespread extortion threats against teacher

November 18, 2008

The American Civil Liberties Union and its Connecticut chapter also allege that minority students in the two towns are arrested at rates much higher than the percentages of blacks and Hispanics in the school populations. – East Hartford and West Hartford

October 26, 2008

Did You Know? Miami-Dade has 50,859 ESOL students (15% of the district’s student body) and in Broward has 24,631 ESOL students (almost 10% of all students) – Florida

October 23, 2008

After 29 years of service, retired Texas State Trooper Minerva Peña is seeking election to Place 6 on the Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees.

October 15, 2008

One of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for making academic advances. – The Brownsville Independent School District serves nearly 50,000 students — 98 percent Hispanic and 43 percent learning English.

October 6, 2008

Increase in Hispanic students at 3-year low – Greenville, South Carolina

September 25, 2008

The City of Manassas and the Manassas school system reached a settlement with the Equal Rights Center this week, almost a year after the District-based organization filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming it unfairly targeted Hispanics while enforcing zoning codes meant to curb overcrowding. – Virginia

Center for Hispanic Preschoolers Moving Into Larger Home- Wheaton, Maryland

September 22, 2008

Manos Amigas/Helping Hands Celebration Unites the Community to Honor Newly Literate Latino Adults

New Head-Start Facility Caters To Latinosin Chicago

Hispanic law students help others up Offering practical advice and serving as role models, they urge high schoolers to aim for college – (Great photo) Corina Rocha, Siria Gutierrez and Leslie Nino Fidance who lead UNLV’s La Voz, an organization of Hispanic law students, recently named No. 1 in the country.

September 17, 2008

High school sets high priority on Hispanic parents – Wheaton High School in Maryland

September 15, 2008

Latino group recruits students in northwest Pasadena – “Peace Ambassador” program this school year at John Muir High School and Washington Elementary School

September 12, 2008

Ventura County schools superintendent meets with LULAC – California

September 9, 2008

School district offers Spanish immersion up to 7th grade – Bedford Heights Elementary – Dallas area

September 5, 2008

Some Tropical Storm Fay victims are using their time at the Estero Community Center to learn. Most of the hundreds of people forced out of their Bonita Springs homes don’t speak much English, but now they’re trying to change that. – Florida

August 28, 2008

A federal judge on Wednesday signed an agreement aimed at adding Hispanic representation to a northeastern Pennsylvania school board, settling a lawsuit that alleged the district’s method of electing board members was discriminatory.

August 17, 2008

A federal judge ruled Friday that a Wichita Catholic school policy requiring students to speak only English didn’t break any civil rights laws.

August 12, 2008

Raza studies deal with reality – Arizona

August 11, 2008

Do Hispanics have a voice in North Forest? They are 30% of district’s students but aren’t part of board, administration – Houston

August 5, 2008

Adelante Mujeres receives education program grants – Hillsboro, Oregon

School administrators brush up on their Spanish – Superintendent Phyllis Wilson said. “Nearly 50 percent of our student population is Hispanic. We have many parents who do not read or speak English.” – Joliet, Illinois

July 30, 2008

4 years later, Nueva Vision charter school looking for final approval from Sacramento County

Mesa, Arizona has seen a big dip in enrollment the past two years at predominantly Hispanic schools such as Longfellow.

July 24, 2008

Juntos Podemos helps with English literacy – Oregon

July 23, 2008

As families toil in fields, migrant children hit books in Rantoul – Illinois

July 21, 2008

City’s Hispanic students climb- Huntsville, Alabama

July 15, 2008

Class Targets Spanish-Speaking Preschoolers – !Listo! Summer School in Columbia, Missouri

June 17, 2008

Arlington Schools Candidacy Captures Latino Imagination – Virginia

June 9, 2008

Varying data leave incomplete picture of immigrants’ progress – Dallas schools

June 3, 2008

Federal suit says Irving ISD elections deny representation to Hispanics

June 2, 2008

Metro applauds Hispanic graduates – Nashville

Hispanic Futures Conference ends for the year – Austin

May 27, 2008

Bilingual programs struggle for staff – Boulder, Colorado

Program helps Latinos teach kids to read – Bridgeport, Connecticut

First Hispanic school in New Orleans has first graduation

New PTA aims to help Latino students – Hazleton, Pennsylvania

May 22, 2008

What will become of Postville’s undocumented students? – Iowa

May 21, 2008

Racial Brawl — LA School District Blames Leadership

Migrant Parents: Reasons For School Shutdown Were Not Translated – Volusia County, Central Florida

May 20, 2008

Annette Maldonado is Hispanic administrator in the Okaloosa County School District – Florida

May 19, 2008

Increase in Hispanic participation part of grant guidelines – Columbus, Nebraska

Garfield High School in East Los Angeles plans its new auditorium

May 14, 2008

Longtime community leader Orlando Isaza, of Northampton, was one of three named yesterday to a new governor’s board focused on youth. – Massachusetts

Did You Know? Officials say 90% of the Latino students at Postville high school aren’t in class today and a third of all the students in kindergarten through eighth grade are absent. – Impact of raid – Iowa

May 13, 2008

Predicted ESOL Savings Debated – 760 Students Left Prince William Schools – Virginia

Immigration raid: State agency gathered student data last month – Postville, Iowa

May 12, 2008

Jose Preciado wants to represent you on the San Diego County Board of Education

May 5, 2008

Schools help students with language barriers – Butler County, Ohio

April 29, 2008

Pledge Of Allegiance Spanish Recitation Uproars Wisconsin

April 28, 2008

Northern Virginia Hit With Cost Of School Migration – Pr. William Policies Drive Immigrants To Inner Suburbs

April 22, 2008

English language learners make great strides – Greeley, Colorado

Hispanic students report bullying because of race – in Oklahoma since the state’s anti-illegal immigrant law started

April 9, 2008

Osceola changes give Hispanics better shot at winning seat on School Board – Florida

April 7, 2008

Hispanic graduation rate lagging in city schools – Pueblo, Colorado

Schools reach out to Spanish-speaking parents – Galveston, Texas

March 31, 2008

New Education Program Builds Steps To Success For Kansas City’s Latino Youth – National Council of La Raza

Lincoln High School strives to close Latino achievement gap – San Jose, California

March 24, 2008

Latinos vie for school board, council seats in Irving – Texas

Language Program Aims to Keep Hispanic Students in School – Raleigh, North Carolina

March 20, 2008

Mexican official to give St. Lucie Spanish-language textbooks

March 10, 2008

Activists take over L.A. streets celebrating 1968 ‘blowouts’ – Thousands re-enact the East Los Angeles high school boycotts by marching from Lincoln H.S. to Hazard Park. – Los Angeles

March 5, 2008

Language project helps Spanish-speakers adapt, excel – Pontiac, Michigan

February 27, 2008

Catholic schools select De La Torre for superintendent – Kansas City

February 21, 2008

Money shortages doom service for Latino students – The Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement started in 1983 to close this week

February 13, 2008

Latino parents decry state’s decision to scrap IMAGE exam – Chicago

LULAC pushes naming elementary school for Cesar E. Chavez – Beaumont, Texas

February 12, 2008

Hispanic Population Growing In Pascagoula School District – Mississippi

February 4, 2008

‘Mariachi music is right up there’

January 31, 2008

An opportunity for Hispanics – Osceola County School Board – Florida

January 28, 2008

Migrant and Bilingual Parents Meet in Pasco

Moline explains school plan in Spanish – Illinois

January 23, 2008

Latinos Seek Ways to Defuse School Violence – Lakeland, Florida

January 22, 2008

Financial aid workshop aims at bilingual students – annual San Joaquin County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce workshop

January 11, 2008

Free English Classes Help Growing Hispanic Population Adapt – Idaho

January 10, 2008

Soaking up Spanish: Language immersion program at Bijou Community School gears up for its second year – Carson City, Nevada

January 3, 2008

Latinos seek programs on citizenship, English – Appleton, Wisconsin

December 13, 2007

Latino students urged to move on to higher ed – Oregon

December 12, 2007

Latinos to get a councilor in Hillsboro – Oregon

December 5, 2007

Bilingual education incorporated at local private school – Claremont, California

HITN-TV Helps Finance a Scholarship Fund for Latino Students at Blue Ridge School

December 4, 2007

College, grade school students collaborate in Spanish instruction – Sioux City

Latinos step it up – At Centennial, students are getting more involved in school – Gresham, Oregon

November 28, 2007

Kids Count reveals increase in Hispanic students – Rhode Island

School event aims to involve Hispanic dads – Wichita

November 27, 2007

Carmel Valley Parents Object To Spanish-Immersion Proposal – San Diego

November 25, 2007

Hispanics now one-third of Hall County students – Gainsville, Georgia

November 19, 2007

Area Hispanics are crossing ‘bridge’ to success – Indianapolis

October 14, 2007

Hispanics make up the majority of USD 443’s students – Dodge City, Kansas – (elementary schools are 80% Hispanic)

October 10, 2007

Group helping Latino youth receives grant – Indiana

September 16, 2007

The Santa Clarita Hispanic Business Committee awards $1,000 scholarships to local high school students at their annual Gala.

September 9, 2007

Class helps Spanish-speaking parents share tips and ideas – Dalles, Oregon

August 29, 2007

Empowering Hispanic youth – New Jersey

August 21, 2007

Los Amigos puts its muscle into recall – The Orange County Latino community group is collecting support to oust a controversial Anaheim school trustee.

August 10, 2007

Denver’s Latino growth is kid-driven

July 24, 2007

Latino leaders in Orange County raise funds for undocumented students schooling – California

June 24, 2007

Oscar de la Hoya Donates $50,000 To Garfield H.S. – California

May 29, 2007

Hudson Hispanics say education No. 1 issue – New Jersey

April 13, 2007

PTA Outreach to Hispanic Community – Muscogee County, Georgia

April 2, 2007

Immigration, education big concerns for Hispanic festival celebrants – Waco, Texas

March 7, 2007

Fuerza Alliance educates students, provides service – Ripon, Wisconsin

February 27, 2007

University of Central Florida Offering Free Workshops for Spanish Speakers With Children With Special Needs

February 15, 2007

Class helps immigrants bridge cultural divides – Keyport, New Jersey

February 5, 2007

Schools honored by Hispanic Chamber – Maryland

January 18, 2007

Hispanic learning center debuts – Questamente in Tampa Bay

December 8, 2006

Latino merchants seek computers for college-bound seniors – San Diego area