Alabama Law Pushes Parents To Desperate Measures

This is heartbreaking, but understandable. In the wake of Alabama’s new and strict immigration law, HB56,  we’ve reported about how businesses and schools are being affected. We’ve talked about the immense amount […]

When I taught high school in the Bronx, the library was the place you went when you didn’t want to eat lunch, and you didn’t want to answer questions about […]

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the bill known as California’s DREAM Act that would give undocumented students access to public funding in schools. We wrote about the measure […]

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 […]

By Dustin Mendus Education has come to the forefront as a Latino issue in the past few weeks due to disappearing Latino students in Alabama. It’s raised eyebrows. The concerns […]

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 […]

I had a horrible time in Mexican Kindergarten. Much of it had it can be blamed on me. I had not developed any kind of social instincts at the age […]

In 2010 there were 9,100 reported cases of Whooping cough. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial disease that in rare cases can be fatal to children. It […]

When I was in sixth grade, there was a girl in school that decided I was someone she could pick on. My parents had moved my sisters and I to […]

Hundreds of Hispanic students stayed home from school on the first day that Alabama officials began to enforce the “toughest” immigration law in the nation, including checking students’ immigration status, […]