By Leslie Puente-Ervin LatinaLista I am a Latina born and raised in the South Bronx. Society didn’t expect much of my friends and me. By all accounts, I should have been a statistic: a teenage mother; high school dropout;…
Obed Manuel Latina Lista 5. Latinos care about the environment About 70 percent of Latinos say they believe global warming is a threat and is caused by human activity. By comparison, just 44 percent of whites and 56…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Leadership Academy for Underserved High Schools The co-founders of Forward Thinking Leadership Academy (FTLA), had each looked back on their own personal struggles with school, poverty, missed chances, and unavailable opportunities due to their family’s socioeconomic…
Rumbo The Central University of the East, as part of its 44th Anniversary proclaims the winner of its UCE Literature Prize of 2014, in the genre of Poetry is the writer César Sánchez Beras, with his work “Recorded on…
By Beth Salamon Futurity More students, particularly boys and minorities, are taking longer than the typical four years to graduate from high school, new research shows. A study shows a growing trend of high school students graduating well after…
LatinaLista — The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice joined forces to release a revised “Dear Colleague Letter” reminding elementary and high school administrators to not prevent undocumented children from enrolling in their schools. The revisions are clarifications to…
LatinaLista — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a set of findings today that finally have longtime teen pregnancy prevention advocates optimistic. The study, Declines in State Teen Birth Rates by Race & Hispanic Origin, found…
LatinaLista — The two quickest ways to set off a firestorm among anti-immigrant critics is to do one of two things: talk about amnesty or speak Spanish at a public event. It was the latter that has one California high…
LatinaLista — There has always been talk of redesigning the high school curriculum to help close the achievement gap that persists between Anglo students and Latino and black students. Yet Berkeley High School is doing something that, while it…
