LatinaLista — The school year is just getting underway and two education groups are hoping that this school year will be different for those Latino, African American and disabled children for whom out-of-school suspension has become the norm rather than the exception. The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) and the Opportunity to Learn Campaign have [...]
Ayala Poised To Become First Latino in Connecticut State Senate History
CT Latino News State Rep. Andres Ayala is poised to become the first Latino member of the Connecticut State Senate after besting two veteran African-American politicians in a three-way primary for the 23rd Senate District democratic nomination. It will be the first time since the State Senate was formed in 1818 that a Latino will [...]
Romney’s choice of Ryan over Rubio underscores a lost opportunity on several important fronts
LatinaLista — The latest Gallup political poll shows that Congress is still getting low marks from the American public. Ten percent of Americans in August approve of the job Congress is doing, tying last February’s reading as the lowest in Gallup’s 38-year history of this measure. Eighty-three percent disapprove of the way Congress is doing [...]
Video: Latino poet remembers 1984, the way it was — for him
LatinaLista — A chap book is a booklet that easily fits into a pocket — a deep pocket. And ‘deep’ is the operative word when discussing the 2010 chap book of Mexican American poet Manuel Paul López titled “1984.” If the title is familiar it’s because it’s borrowed from the George Orwell classic of the same [...]
Latino and black youth in juvenile justice system lose out on getting an education — twice
LatinaLista — It’s long been known that Latino and black students suffer the brunt of school suspensions and juvenile detention. Today, the Civil Rights Project released a study Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School which reports: National suspension rates show that 17%, or 1 out of every 6 Black school- children [...]
As Latino politicians ascend, more must confront a political riddle unique to Hispanics
LatinaLista — Something Ted Cruz, the victor in the recent GOP TX Senate primary, said today has been getting a lot of coverage. He was advising Mitt Romney how best to appeal to Latino voters. Mitt Romney’s campaign should appeal to “conservative values: faith, family, hard work, responsibility” in making his case to Latino voters… [...]
