Latino Students Majority In Texas

Latino Students Majority In Texas

Mary Mata March 24, 2011

Texas — like California and Arizona — is seeing huge Latino gains in its population. The majority of students in Texas are now Latino, making up 50.2% of the 4.9 […]

3rd Grade Reading Homework: What is an Illegal Alien?

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This is just plain wrong. But it’s wrong in so many different ways that it’s beyond belief. A third grade public school class in Duluth, GA, was given a reading […]

AZ Senate Racist Letter Accused of Being a Fraud

NewsTaco March 23, 2011

The controversy over the racially tinged letter from a Tucson substitute teacher, read aloud on the floor of the Arizona state Senate, continues to grow. News Taco reported that the […]

Obama: US-Latin America Past is Past

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Ask pretty much any person from Latin America and they’ll tell you that the one word that defines the US relationship to that part of the world is paternalistic, at times either meddling or […]

Arizona Senator Reads Racist Letter: Latino Kids Are Gangbangers

Mary Mata March 22, 2011

An Arizona Republican state senator, Lori Klein, decided to add her name to the list of racist politicos in that state last week when she read what she said was […]

President Obama Will do Education Town Hall on Univision

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Fresh from his trip to Latin America President Barack Obama will make an appearance before the second largest Latino community in the world: Spanish television. The White House confirmed that the President will take part in an […]

Latina, 87, Honored for Lifetime Service to Community

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When I read this I knew I had to post it. Yes, it’s small town news, and yes, it may not seem to matter in the grand scheme, but Alejandra […]

Latinos Will Surpass the 55 Million Mark

NewsTaco March 21, 2011

So now that we’re 42 states into the 50-state Census roll-out reveal it’s a good time to pause to see where we are and what to expect. Back in the […]

VIDEO: Prepárate, Own The Narrative

NewsTaco March 18, 2011

500 Higher Education professionals gathered in San Antonio to  discuss the emergency situation of Latinos in Higher Ed, set some goals, and get to work. The first step, as it […]

All Latino Youth Are Not Gang Members

Mary Mata March 17, 2011

Northern California Latino youth have been battling injunctions that underscore latent fears that all latino youth are gang members. According to the blog Dream Deployed: On March 4th 2011 , […]