By Priscilla Cabral-Pérez Hawaii Hispanic News HONOLULU, Hawaii – On July 8, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese named ‘Iolani School Spanish teacher Guia Melo the “2011 Secondary School Outstanding Teacher of the Year.” Melo traveled to Washington D.C. to receive the award. While in D.C., she met with U.S. Senator Daniel [...]
New report on disparities in student discipline shows there’s no justice for minority and disabled students
LatinaLista – “Does a policy of kicking “bad kids” out of school so “good kids” can learn really work?” That’s the premise of a new report released today titled Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice. The report, authored by Daniel J. Losen, director of the new Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights [...]
Rebuttal to Napolitano op-ed: The Dept. of Homeland Security is in need of its own immigration reality check
LatinaLista — It was only a matter of time that the Obama administration would feel compelled to “set the record straight” on the GOP presidential candidates’ constant campaign rhetoric painting the US-Mexico border as a territory under siege and illegal immigration out of control. What better person to speak out than Secretary of Homeland Security [...]
New poll shows Latino parents still hesitant to have “THE sex talk” with their kids
LatinaLista — A new poll released by New York University’s Silver School of Social Work’s Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) and Planned Parenthood shows that 82 percent of parents are having a “sex talk” with their children. The problem is most of them are not having “THE sex talk.” The poll of [...]
Alabama immigration law pulls state deeper down national hole of shame
LatinaLista — A Sunday editorial cartoon in the Mobile Press-Register had the title “What can brown do for you?” It was in reference to the extremely harsh immigration law passed in Alabama to rid the state of undocumented immigrants. As of now, it stands as the most punitive law in the country. The short blog [...]
Latino students have lowest college completion rates in the nation
LatinaLista – In 2008, the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education got together to review the educational status of Americans. What the commission saw disturbed them. The US was falling behind other industrialized nations in the number of adults who had post-secondary degrees; more students were dropping out of high school and college [...]
