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Latinx: Page 111

Online School Targets Hispanics, Students At Risk

The state’s newest virtual charter school is expected to go online this fall, but only after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.

Critics ask: What Role Should TV, Radio Marti Play?

Two decades after Congress established the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting, lawmakers and experts still cannot seem to agree on the program’s mission.

Families Sue Catholic School Over ‘English Only’ Policy

Four Hispanic families are suing St. Anne’s Catholic School over a policy that requires students to speak English at all times while at school.

NC System Reverses Itself, Won’t Admit Undocumented

North Carolina community colleges will have to wait longer for a resolution to a controversy over admitting undocumented students that has been brewing since the system issued a directive last December to do so as part of the prevailing open-admissions policy

Southern California Districts Facing ‘No Child Left Behind’ Sanctions

At Las Palmitas Elementary School, nestled between rundown homes and fields of grapes, peppers and dates in Southern California, 99 percent of students live in poverty and fewer than 20 percent speak English fluently.

Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation

A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.

Arkansas Organization Moves to Deny Benefits to Undocumented

The Arkansas attorney general’s office cleared the way on last Wednesday for supporters of a ballot measure requiring government agencies to verify all those seeking public benefits in the state are legal U.S. residents to begin gathering signatures.

Conference Highlights Successful Schools

When Ricardo Esparza became principal of Granger High School in South Central Washington state nine years ago, he walked into an environment where gangs roamed the halls, fights were common and academic performance was less than impressive.

African-American

Survey: Nearly 60 Percent of Hispanic and Black Children Can’t Swim

Nearly 60 percent of Hispanic and African-American children cannot swim, almost twice the figure for White children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey that USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more minority children into the sport.

PBIs Make Gains in Washington

Predominantly Black institutions are recognized with a new federal grant program and proposed funding in the new HEA bill.

Unveiling of Stamp for Latino Journalist Will Be Observed at University of Arizona

The University of Arizona’s Media Democracy and Policy Institute will join with the United States Postal Service on Thursday to unveil a stamp commemorating the work of Rubén Salazar, a Latino journalist killed while on assignment in 1970 at the age of 42.

UMd. Approves Latino Studies Minor

The University of Maryland at College Park has decided to create a minor in U.S. Latino studies –the first such program at a major university in the Washington area.

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