By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa TULSA, Oklahoma — Two dates. Two groups. Six hundred participants. One auditorium. That’s how Deborah Easter describes the two education and business conferences that are scheduled for Nov. 1 and 3 at Oral…
LatinaLista — According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, California ranks as the top state in the nation with the “strongest gun laws that help combat the illegal gun market, prevent the sale of guns without background…
LatinaLista — More and more reports are surfacing across the country that ICE agents are not practicing what John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, promised would happen — that ICE agents would exercise prosecutorial discretion when handling…
LatinaLista — It’s estimated that 52 percent of Latinas will become pregnant at least once by age 20. While the Latina teen pregnancy rates have actually fallen and are at their lowest levels in years, unfortunately, Latina teen birth…
LatinaLista — Today is the 17th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The legislation was supposed to empower women, who were victims of violence, to know they didn’t have to tolerate the abuse they were receiving from…
by Kathleen O. Vale La Voz de Austin COMMENTARY — I am a proud sixth-generation female member of a Mexican- American family whose roots begin in San Antonio, Texas, meander back to Rio Grande City, Texas (in Starr County,…
LatinaLista — Undocumented college students in Georgia were facing a pretty dismal start to the school year this year. A ruling in 2010 by the Georgia State Board of Regents barring any state college or university from accepting undocumented immigrants…
By Aaron Martinez and Mariel Torres Borderzine EL PASO — As the drug war rages on in México, the number of students that have enrolled in El Paso schools due to the violence remains unknown and unrecorded by schools….
LatinaLista — The latest report on the status of Latino college enrollment rounds out an interesting snapshot. Though the high school dropout rate is the highest among Latino students, and is a statistic that fits with the popular stereotype…
LatinaLista — When the Obama administration announced last week the changes to how Immigration and Customs Enforcement would prioritize the deportation cases of undocumented immigrants — deport those with criminal backgrounds and defer others with no criminal history —…
LatinaLista — In every survey conducted of Latino parents about their hopes for the education of their children, the unanimous sentiment is that they want their children to go on to college. Unfortunately, there is a learning gap for…
LatinaLista — It’s reported that 1.5 million children are homeless in this country. Thirteen kids die on the street every day from abuse, disease and suicide. Kids are running away at the rate of one every minute. In every…
LatinaLista — It’s one thing for adults to stress the importance of education to young people but quite another when students realize it for themselves — and it seems Latino students are slowly but surely getting that message. In…
By Cheryl Aguilar LatinaLista Dr. Alicia Abella works tirelessly to interest the next generation of Latino students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers and create a new future for themselves. Exposing students to role models is essential…
LatinaLista — The battle to get Congress to pass the DREAM Act has been going on for ten years this month. It’s surprising that legislation that is such a no-brainer would be challenged every step of the way. Yet,…
LatinaLista — One criticism of today’s young people is that, with all their extra-curricular activities, technology that absorbs their attention from mobile phones to Wii and their time spent with social media, they don’t think enough about “giving back”…
LatinaLista — A teenager’s life has always been tough. There have always been bullies, “mean girls,” that one special guy or girl that gave you butterflies in your stomach, and for some teen girls that one guy who professed…
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…
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…
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…
LatinaLista — The reference to “youth being the future” has been said so often it’s been drilled down to a cliche that elicits little to no response these days. Yet, unlike past eras, the truth of the statement is…
LatinaLista — The word “esperanza” means hope in Spanish. Today, in this troubling economy, it’s hard for people to have hope if they don’t have good job prospects. And to get a good job, one needs an education. Unfortunately,…
LatinaLista — For many Latino families, the notion of higher education for their children, or themselves, can seem out of reach. Yet, a new bilingual website, En Camino: Herramientas educativas para familias/On our Way: Educational tools for families, sponsored…
LatinaLista — This morning’s first-ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act, chaired by Sen. Durbin, seemed, at times, like an exercise in “preaching to the choir.” The audience was overwhelmingly supportive of the DREAM Act and, in fact, many…
LatinaLista — The founders of the Harlem Children’s Society (HCS) describe their effort as an experiment in the “relationship between science and society.” Yet, what this unique organization is achieving is opening doors — and minds — to the…
