By Chase Cook Oklahoma Watch Among thousands of Oklahoma students who could be held back in third grade for failing a state reading test next year, a disproportionate share will likely be low-income children, an Oklahoma Watch analysis of state data found. Most could be boys. An analysis of state test data from spring 2012 [...]
Historic Swearing In of First Hispanic Justice to Connecticut Supreme Court
By Wayne Jebian CTLatinoNews.com Carmen Espinosa is now the first Hispanic Connecticut Supreme Court Justice. She is one of only eight Latino state supreme court justices in the United States and the first Puerto Rican. She was sworn in by Judge Jose Cabranes, 2nd Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, who is a native of Puerto [...]
Youth violence – a public health problem?
Extra News Chicago has become the unfortunate center of youth violence in America. Recent studies show that homicide is the second leading cause of death among young Latinos, and the first leading cause of death among young African-Americans. Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a Harvard professor and the first woman to be appointed as Commissioner of Public [...]
How I remember my grandfather, Cesar Chavez
By Barbara Chavez Ybarra La Voz de Austin My earliest childhood memory of my Tata Cesar is being in La Paz where we lived with him and my Nana Helen, spending time with him while he would teach me to read. I was named by him because his favorite city was Santa Barbara. When I [...]
Economic wealth not trickling down to South Texas colonia residents
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG, TX – Speaking at the South Texas Mayors’ Stakeholder Summit, Proyecto Azteca’s Ann Cass Williams said that from a colonia resident’s perspective, the glass is still half empty. “I have not seen a decrease in poverty rates in the 33 years I have lived here. The people who [...]
Environmental groups call on Border Patrol to reduce off-road damage
By Gerald Bourguet Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – Border Patrol off-road vehicles used to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers are damaging the landscapes of two ecologically sensitive areas of southern Arizona, environmental groups contend. The Sierra Club and Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity released a short video showing damage from ATVs at Organ Pipe [...]