the Latino daily – Your Monday morning brief

MONDAY, April 11, 2016

Good morning Taquistas!

Let’s get this week started. Here’s your news.

►Monday’s numbers

40 – The percentage of U.S. Latino and black students in the U.S. public school population.

50 – The percentage of U.S. Latino parents who believe that good teachers are the most important asset needed to make a school great.

45 – The percentage of U.S. Latino parents who believe children in their communities receive a worse education than white students.

47 – The percentage of U.S. Latino parents who believe that their children get a bad education because of a lack 0f funding.

21 – The percentage of U.S. Latino parents who believe that their children get a bad education because of bad teachers.

20 – The percentage of U.S. Latino parents who believe that their children get a bad education because of racism.

10 – The percentage of U.S. Latino parents who believe that their children get a bad education because of a lack of resources and technology.

Source: Los Angeles Times, Black and Latino parents want better teachers and harder classes for their kids
►Excuse the sarcastic tone, but . . .

One place where Latinos and blacks are more than well represented is in the number of people in California who are arrested because of unpaid traffic tickets.

It’s a cruel cycle.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times “African Americans and Latinos in California are more likely than others to lose their driver’s licenses because of unpaid tickets and then to be arrested for driving with suspended licenses, according to a report released Monday.”

The study was done by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and found that people who couldn’t afford to pay traffic tickets were being arrested, jailed and prosecuted and ended up losing their driver’s licenses – and by extension . . .  READ MORE