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Spotlight Non-profit: La Alianza Hispana partners with Greater Boston Latinos to strive, excel and achieve

Apr 9, 2010, 12:02 PM 0

LatinaLista — Everybody needs to start somewhere. La Alianza Hispana (LAH), Inc. of Greater Boston strives to do that for their local Latino community. Begun in 1968 by Ana Maria Rodriguez, a teacher of English as a second language…

Economy, Education, General

Education report reveals less than a quarter of Florida Latinos have bachelor’s degrees

Apr 6, 2010, 10:33 AM 0

LatinaLista — When it comes to higher education, Latinos always seem to lag behind the pack. Recent reports reveal that only 10 percent of Latinos have earned a bachelor’s degree, while Latinas are outpacing Latinos in college enrollment. This…

Education, General, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final, Youth

Deported DREAM Act student claims Dept. of Homeland forced him to sign paper barring him from returning to U.S. for 10 years

Apr 5, 2010, 3:42 PM 7

LatinaLista — The story was all too familiar — a young, bright college freshman studying electrical engineering on a full scholarship at a local Dallas university suddenly caught in the rusty wheels of federal bureaucracy, otherwise known as U.S….

Education, General, Immigration, Media, Online, Social Media

“Not in Our Town” site shows communities how to fight back against hate crimes

Apr 5, 2010, 2:25 PM 0

LatinaLista — The November 2008 murder of Marcelo Lucero on Long Island, New York by a group of teens shocked everyone for its brutality and senselessness. The notion that these kids hunted Marcelo for sport can’t help but disgust…

Education, General, Guest Voz, Youth

Guest Voz: Motivational Youth Speaker targets three things to ensure Latino students’ success in school

Apr 2, 2010, 11:33 AM 3

LatinaLista — Fabian Ramirez is a youth motivational speaker and regularly speaks to students every year in schools, churches and community events. While his message for all students is to stay in school, his main focus is to reach Latino…

Education, General, Immigration, Language, Palabra Final

The demand for English classes by immigrants must be met now to comply with future immigration reform criteria

Mar 30, 2010, 7:56 PM 2

LatinaLista — One guarantee of any comprehensive immigration reform bill is that it will require all immigrants to learn English and attain a level of proficiency. When that happens, lawsuits challenging the validity of English tests, like the Fresno…

Children, Education, General, Nonprofit, Youth

Spotlight Non-profit: The LAYC goes beyond academics to ensure success in life for low-income Latino youth

Mar 19, 2010, 5:48 AM 0

LatinaLista — If an organization has been able to last for 42 years then it’s obvious they’re doing something right. There’s no truer example of that than with the D.C.-based Latin American Youth Center (LAYC). Founded in 1968 and…

Education, General, Youth

New report finds colleges bear half of the blame for low Latino graduation rates

Mar 18, 2010, 8:57 AM 0

LatinaLista — A new report released today by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research titled Rising to the Challenge: Hispanic College Graduation Rates as a National Priority documented the fact that Latino students who don’t graduate from college…

Education, General, Health, Women

Unique Bridal March hits Miami Beach to raise awareness of domestic violence

Mar 15, 2010, 3:43 PM 2

LatinaLista — On St. Patrick’s Day, visitors to Miami Beach for Spring Break, are bound to do a double-take. Instead of seeing bikini-clad women, with maybe a hint of something green, they’ll be seeing a parade of women dressed…

Education, General, History, Palabra Final, Politics

Latinos and blacks should be offended and angry over TX State Board of Education’s decision to dismiss minority contributions from school textbooks

Mar 12, 2010, 5:03 PM 21

LatinaLista — Democracy is a dying U.S. ideal — thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE). In a vote of 10-5, the board, dominated by social conservatives, preliminarily adopted a new Social Studies and history curriculum that…

Books, Children, Education, General, Youth

Latinos comprise largest share of “Below Basic” literacy rates

Mar 2, 2010, 5:18 PM 1

LatinaLista On the heels of the President’s address of the dismal dropout rates, the nation is supposed to be observing today Read Across America Day 2010. For those students who have dropped out of school or who are struggling…

Causes, Education, General, Money, Women, Youth

Actor Edward James Olmos spearheads donations request to help “Stand and Deliver” teacher Jaime Escalante

Mar 2, 2010, 2:48 PM 2

LatinaLista If we were to name the top five all-time family favorite Latino films, a list might include: La Bamba, Real Women Have Curves, Mi Familia, Selena and — Stand and Deliver. Who could forget the teacher Jaime Escalante,…

Children, Education, General, Palabra Final, Youth

President’s dropout recovery plan lacks four components to help Latino students

Mar 1, 2010, 12:23 PM 4

LatinaLista President Obama outlined a plan today to reduce the high school dropout rate. He deserves kudos for understanding that this educational crisis goes beyond local communities and state jurisdictions, and has serious national implications for the future. According…

Education, General, Health, Parenting, Women, Youth

When it comes to Latina teen pregnancies, California’s doing something right

Feb 22, 2010, 3:53 PM 3

LatinaLista Something good is happening in California. For a state more accustomed to bad news — a broke state economy, a slashing of public services, an increase in health premiums by the state’s largest health insurer, rising college tuition…

Education, General, Government, Local News, Southwest

Demonstrators: Cutting adult education programs will hurt Arizona

Feb 19, 2010, 7:56 AM 0

By GRISELDA NEVAREZ Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — Brandon Muzzin was in seventh grade when he stopped going to school. Through a state-funded program, he was able to get his GED and is now majoring in engineering at Pima…

Education, General, Multimedia, Online, Technology

Latest report showing Latinos lag in Internet usage underscores troubling omission

Feb 17, 2010, 2:56 PM 1

LatinaLista A new report released today by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Digital Nation: 21st Century America’s Progress Toward Universal Broadband Internet Access, found that of all the ethnic groups, Latinos are the least likely to be on…

Economy, Education, General, Money, Multimedia, Online, Youth

Online site aims to break the cycle of financial illiteracy among young Latinos

Feb 16, 2010, 1:57 PM 0

LatinaLista — Financial literacy is an issue that is increasing in importance among the Latino community as the economy still teeters, jobs are still lost and people are still losing their homes. For too long, Latinos, and those who…

Education, General, Language

New program helps the blind learn English with free program

Feb 15, 2010, 12:06 PM 0

LatinaLista — It pays to speak another language. Well, it pays better if that other language is English. According to research published in 2003, immigrants (in the United States) who have mastered English compared to those who speak it…

Education, General, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

North Carolina bilingual school secretary loses job for translating for Spanish-speaking parents

Feb 11, 2010, 4:45 PM 6

LatinaLista — One of the horror stories often told by Latino civil rights pioneers has always been the tale of how they were punished for speaking Spanish at school. Rightly or wrongly, it has become the standard for which…

Education, General, Government, Language, Local News, Southwest

Lawmaker wants to give schools more flexibility on English learners

Feb 10, 2010, 12:41 PM 0

By GRISELDA NEVAREZ Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — State mandates on how school districts teach English language learners keep local officials from adopting systems that can most effectively address the needs of their students, a state lawmaker contends. “To…

Children, Education, Fitness, General, Government, Health, Nonprofit, Youth

First Lady pushes the nation to get moving on combating childhood obesity

Feb 9, 2010, 11:14 AM 1

LatinaLista — Childhood obesity is a BIG problem in the Latino community that is only getting worse. The severity of the problem was underscored this morning with President Obama signing a presidential memorandum establishing the first-ever government-wide Task Force…

Children, Culture, Education, Fitness, General, Health

Study on obesity rates in pre-schoolers doesn’t take into account cultural nuances of Latino culture

Feb 8, 2010, 3:08 PM 1

LatinaLista— When it comes to childhood obesity, Latino children, unfortunately, are winning this race. Weight gain in Latino children has long been associated with not eating healthy — in low-income, urban settings actual grocery stores can be a rare…

Children, Education, General, Music, Nonprofit, Youth

Spotlight Non-profit: Opening the doors to top-tier American orchestras for Latino and Black student musicians

Feb 5, 2010, 9:17 AM 0

LatinaLista Among the nation’s classical musical orchestras, blacks and Latinos only constitute 5% of the musicians. A man by the name of Aaron P. Dworkin vowed to change those dismal statistics. With a vision to make classical music reflect…

Education, General, Youth

Study on Hispanic-serving Institutions finds that after community college more Latino students attend private colleges

Feb 4, 2010, 12:20 PM 2

LatinaLista — Know what a HSI is? HSI is the acronym for those colleges and universities that are deemed Hispanic Serving Institutions. It means that 25% or more of their full-time undergraduate students are Latino. The invention of Hispanic-serving…

Education, General, Global Views, Government, History, Human Rights, Linking Latinas

Chile preserves its tortured past in new museum dedicated to country’s victims of human rights abuses

Feb 2, 2010, 10:10 AM 0

By Pamela Morales LatinaLista SANTIAGO, CHILE — Some 20 people stood silently in a small, black-walled room staring at a dozen television monitors playing testimonials from torture victims. One woman remembering bleeding from her nose, ears, mouth, vagina and…

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