Latino Students More Likely Than Whites To Be Suspended

Latino Students More Likely Than Whites To Be Suspended

NewsTaco October 7, 2011

Here are a couple of dots that I never thought to connect (I’m glad someone had the good sense to do it). It comes form a study done by the National Education […]

Immigration Law Puts Alabama Teachers Out Of Work

NewsTaco October 6, 2011

It’s been a full week since the state of Alabama’s new immigration law went into effect. In that time anyone with half an opinion on the matter, including me and […]

Marco Rubio At Center Of Univision GOP Debate Controversy

NewsTaco October 5, 2011

Someone’s not playing this straight. Either Univisión is running for cover or a group of three políticos from Florida are tag-teaming a grudge match against the Spanish language television giant. Either way, […]

Alabama Has Thrown The Baby Out With The Bath Water

NewsTaco October 4, 2011

If I were living in Alabama, which I’m not, I’d probably be among the many Latinos of that state who are packing their tiliches (stuff), pulling their roots and moving […]

Feliz Cumpleaños NewsTaco

NewsTaco October 3, 2011

The most exhilarating and terrifying thing about doing something like NewsTaco is that there are no instructions. It wouldn’t have mattered because we’re not the type to read instructions — […]

First Latino U.S. President Could Be 7th Grader

NewsTaco September 30, 2011

Barack Obama predicted that he’ll be alive to see a Latino candidate for president. He said a little bit more than that, but that’s the gist of his remark. If it was […]

Latino Childhood Poverty Sets Record

NewsTaco September 29, 2011

The headline across the top of a Pew Hispanic Center press release is ominous: The Toll of the Great Recession. The body of the story doesn’t get any better. More Latino […]

Berkeley Affirmative Action Cupcake Sale Misses The Point

NewsTaco September 28, 2011

Driving through southern New Mexico several years ago I came to a crossroads where a state highway intersects a farm road. A truck was parked to the side of the […]

5 Tips To Improve Your Job Search

NewsTaco September 27, 2011

If you’re Latino and looking for a job you’re 1 in 10 (actually you’re 1.1 in 10, I rounded). This recession has been harder on Latinos than it has on […]

More Latinos Needed In Highest Levels Of Federal Government

NewsTaco September 23, 2011

All things being equal, with population growth rates remaining the same, by the year 2050 there will be no clear ethnic or racial majority in the United States. That’s according […]