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

September 22, 2009

Study shows Hispanic and white students learn at same rate – With the highest percentage of Hispanics in the state, the WSD is accelerating the learning of ESL students without leaving the other students behind – Oregon

September 14, 2009

Test Scores Show Positive Trend For Hispanic Students – A new review of standardized test scores in Oregon

English-only test leaves some Oregon children behind

December 18, 2008

Mexican materials help ELL students academically in Oregon – the Mexican government has for the past 17 years provided supplemental Spanish instructional materials to Oregon schools at no charge or for a nominal fee.

December 5, 2008

Oregon Suspends Use of Aprenda–a Spanish-Language Test

November 3, 2008

Oregon Conference Educates Latinos on Small Business Management

August 10, 2008

Measure Limiting English Learning to Cost Oregonians a Quarter of a Billion Dollars

July 24, 2008

Juntos Podemos helps with English literacy – Oregon

July 16, 2008

CAUSA: Oregon’s Anti-ESL Measure Debated

June 19, 2008

Learning the Language: Anti-Bilingual-Education Initiative to Be on November Ballot in Oregon

June 18, 2008

CAUSA: Anti-ESL Instruction Measure Qualifies for November Ballot in Oregon – would prohibit teaching a public school student in a language other than English for more than two years

April 10, 2008

Oregon’s Dropout Rate Continues to Climb – (except for Hispanics YET the graduation rate is only 63.7%)

March 11, 2008

Riding the bilingual bus – Phoenix-Talent staff learn ways to make Hispanic students feel more welcome – Oregon

February 21, 2008

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

January 14, 2008

Workshop Helps Latino Students Prepare for College – Kennewick, Oregon

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 4, 2007

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

October 17, 2007

Parents say school misread son’s ethnicity – A lawsuit claims Hillsboro educators placed the English-speaking boy in ESL solely because he is Latino – Oregon

September 20, 2007

Mexican curriculum in Oregon schools stirs debate

September 18, 2007

Springfield High School high school moves toward forming mariachi band – Oregon

September 9, 2007

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

April 6, 2007

Now you’re speaking my language – The Tigard-Tualatin School District is seeing the advantages of hiring teachers who are bi-lingual and bi-cultural – Oregon

April 4, 2007

Did You Know? In Oregon 8.4 percent of Hispanic students dropout of high school

April 2, 2007

Latinas put their message where the ears are – Three Forest Grove girls hope ’stay in school’ resonates with a hip-hop station’s listeners – Oregon

February 5, 2007

All-girl, all-Latina team goes to science bowl – Oregon

January 24, 2007

Immigrants need help learning English – opinion of Colleen Puentes – Oregon