Education + Los Angeles Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
Young Latino Children Throughout Los Angeles County to Benefit from IBM Donation of Educational Computer Learning Centers
November 2, 2009
High School is Named After Oscar de la Hoya in Boyle Heights
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
Selena Gomez gave a bunch of L.A. elementary school kids something to smile about when she showed up at Charnock Road Elementary to honor a teacher with over $1,000 in school supplies during OfficeMax’s A Day Made Better Event.
September 30, 2009
Language as a bridge and an identity – At the Grupo Educa weekend language school, children from families with roots in Latin America and Spain are taught to keep the language of their forebears alive and well.
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
June 24, 2009
LA middle school students deprived of diplomas for 1 act of civil disobedience
December 18, 2008
Leamos: A Noble Cause – El Centro Latino for Literacy gets ready to roll out the Leamos campaign – Los Angeles
December 8, 2008
President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Mónica García’s attempt to oust LAUSD’s Brewer: gaffe or gutsy?
September 22, 2008
Manos Amigas/Helping Hands Celebration Unites the Community to Honor Newly Literate Latino Adults
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 5, 2008
L.A. Unified elementary school experiments with dual-language program
July 16, 2008
Why do Asian students generally get higher marks than Latinos? Lincoln High students have candid ideas. – Los Angeles
June 9, 2008
UCR Graduate Student Receives L.A. County Bilingual Directors Award – Gregory O’Brien, principal at Sparks Elementary School, will be honored at the 32nd Annual Recognition Banquet on Saturday, June 7.
May 27, 2008
Santa Ana urges Latinos to get in the swim – The city’s high schools are encouraging competitive swimming and water polo among a group that doesn’t traditionally participate in aquatics.
May 21, 2008
Racial Brawl — LA School District Blames Leadership
May 19, 2008
Garfield High School in East Los Angeles plans its new auditorium
May 12, 2008
Locke High School in South Los Angeles locked down after huge brawl – (between rival groups of black and Latino students – up 600 involved)
March 17, 2008
Test Scores Jump for Some L.A. Hispanic Students
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
January 16, 2008
Judge dismisses slander suit against radio station – Academia Semillas Del Pueblo and its co-director filed the suit in May alleging the school was the target of an on-air, racist campaign that led to a bomb scare. – Los Angeles
January 11, 2008
Mexican education comes to U.S. – Adult immigrants can complete their basic education in Spanish at one of 13 centers across L.A. County.
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 20, 2007
Latino students discover science – Cal State Los Angeles
July 26, 2007
Won’t Your Spanish Hurt Their English? – Spanish, of all languages, is nearly missing from the landscape of heritage language schools around the city, writes a Los Angeles parent struggling to bring up bilingual children.
July 24, 2007
Latino leaders in Orange County raise funds for undocumented students schooling – California
April 9, 2007
Santa Ana chamber pushing residents to learn English – California
April 3, 2007
Activist Calls For Greater Black, Latino Access To Beverly Hills High
March 12, 2007
The American dream is alive at Franklin High – A Highland Park school with a 90% Latino student body is a laboratory for what’s possible when everyone works together. – Los Angeles
February 16, 2007
UCLA program teaches Spanish to children in South Los Angeles
January 11, 2007
Mayor endorses Flores Aguilar for school board – Los Angeles
December 11, 2006
Lessons from the `maestro’ – Los Angeles
