LatinaLista — There’s long been debate in the United States over whether or not retaining a child in a particular grade was a good or bad thing. Yet, no one ever addresses if transferring students, labeled “troublemakers,” to alternative schools is good or bad. The idea that getting troublemakers out of the classroom so “real [...]
Texas suspends/expels 60 percent of middle and high school students, majority being black and Latino
LatinaLista — Today’s release of the Nation’s Report Card: Geography 2010 showed that 12th graders not only had the least improvement in geography scores but the percentage of students at or above Proficient was lower in 2010 than in earlier assessment years. The reasons for the high school seniors doing badly ranges from bad teaching [...]
Dept. of Homeland Security risks losing more credibility among Latinos if Marcelo Llamas is deported
LatinaLista — One of the selling points of the DREAM Act — the bill that sets young undocumented people on a path to citizenship after meeting a laundry list of criteria — is the point that the ones who qualify have to be a person of strong moral character. Marcelo Castañeda Llamas fits that definition. [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Former foster care child empowers children with “Foster Skills”
LatinaLista — A study by the University of Chicago found that less than ten percent of children who go through the foster care system ever graduate from college. One of the lucky ones is Marquis Cabrera. Abandoned as an infant and spending most of his youth in foster care until he was adopted, Cabrera went [...]
DREAM Act Sabbath
MetroLatinoUSA WASHINGTON, DC — Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and more than a dozen religious leaders representing a broad variety of faith traditions, today announced a DREAM Act Sabbath – an initiative enlisting churches, synagogues, and mosques around the country to dedicate time during their regular weekly worship service [...]
New UN report shows women achieve varying success in equality and empowerment
LatinaLista — “We’ve come a long way baby” is something women like to say every time a new collective milestone is reached or glass ceiling cracked. In the United States, though women have achieved many accomplishments that gets them closer to parity with men, there is still a lot left to be accomplished. For example, [...]
