Maryland Senate Passes DREAM Act

The Senate in Maryland passed a bill on Monday night that will allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition, raising their chances of earning a college education in the state. […]

It kinda sounds like a cheesy parlor trick – if only it were that easy. There’s nothing new in the the idea. We’ve been consistently talking about the need to […]

In case you haven’t seen this yet, it’s worth a watch, if only because it reminds us all of the importance of being open-minded, and of the latent racism that […]

Texas Governor Rick Perry met last week with GOP leaders of the state to urge them, again, to not raid the state’s $9 billion rainy day fund to stem the bleeding of […]

[Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Abby Rapoport and originally appeared in The Texas Observer.] 11,000 parents, teachers and advocates stormed the Capitol Saturday to demand lawmakers spend […]

The Census numbers are out for California and there’re two big stories to talk about; first, that Latino children are now the majority in California, and second, that as Latinos […]

After we posted a story about a bill in the New Hampshire legislature that would restrict the voting rights of college students on the grounds that “they lack life experience […]

A new report from the Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics) has found that the island nation is suffering some pretty heavy brain drain and […]

The Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) posted some important legal documents online for everyone to see. Here’s an excerpt from their press release: At Preston Hollow Elementary School, a public […]

It’s true, I graduated from Stanford University, yet, after I was laid off in 2009, I couldn’t get a job at Walmart. Believe me, I tried. As a matter of fact, […]