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Doing Homework Can Find Money For College

NewsTaco May 28, 2014

SPONSORED CONTENT (NAPS)—There’s good news for parents with college-age children. Investing the time and effort to find money for college can pay dividends when it comes to covering the costs […]

Junk food industry’s shameful targeting of Latino and Black youth

NewsTaco May 27, 2014

Why Do a Majority of Latino Students End Up at Two-Year Colleges?

NewsTaco May 22, 2014

Is Aztec Dance the hot, new fitness craze?

NewsTaco May 20, 2014

*I’m not sure if this is cool or not. I’ll know when some athletic apparel company markets shell-adorned ankle wear. VL By Rachel Uranga, Latinzine MSN In a Southern California […]

When This Teacher’s Ethnic Studies Classes Were Banned, His Students Took the District to Court–and Won

NewsTaco May 19, 2014

*Three words: Así se hace. VL By Jing Fong, Yes Magazine The Mexican American Studies (MAS) program in Tucson, Ariz., began in 1998 as a few courses and grew to […]

Before ‘Brown V. Board,’ Mendez Fought California’s Segregated Schools

NewsTaco May 16, 2014

*There’s so much to take from this. Here are two things that stand out: first, that the Latino fight for civil rights isn’t new, it goes back for many decades; […]

Report: Sixty Years After Brown, Latino Students Are Most Segregated

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*While immigration is important, the advocacy and the political battles have caused Latinos to take their eyes of other important issues to our community. This is one of those issues. […]