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‘Get off the stage!’ Crowd yells at commencement speaker after she uses Spanish, mentions Trump

NewsTaco May 25, 2016

*Where do you fall on this, if any place at all? She spoke a few words about holding Donald Trump accountable, she spoke a few words in Spanish, and she […]

Border higher ed gains began with a lawsuit

NewsTaco May 23, 2016

The Inspiring Boyle Heights Teen Who Became an Award-Winning Roboticist Against the Odds

NewsTaco May 18, 2016

On Texas school funding: Only one option for Latinos, get involved

NewsTaco May 16, 2016

*Now that the initial shock has passed over the Texas Supreme Court’s decision on public school funding, it’s time for action. Al Kauffman tells us that constitutional does not mean […]

Texas Supreme Court Upholds School Funding System

NewsTaco May 13, 2016

*This.is.huge. The battle to remedy the inequitable system that funds Texas public schools is decades old. Since 1980 advocates for equitable funding have sued the state of Texas seven times, […]

How decades-old discrimination against Latino kids continues today – and what you can do about it

NewsTaco May 3, 2016

“. . . in at least 35 districts in 14 states, hundreds of unaccompanied minors from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have been discouraged from enrolling in schools or pressured […]

People Keep Saying Higher Education Will Solve Socio-Ecponomic Inequality—It Won’t

NewsTaco April 26, 2016

*Latinos have bought-in to the idea that a college education is the cure-all goal that opens the door to the American dream. Aaron Sanchez says it isn’t. It’s not equalizing […]