Latino Students Found to be Discriminiated Against in Colorado Schools
Latino Students Found to be Discriminiated Against in Colorado Schools
*Take note. The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights found that not only Latino students, but teachers and administrators as well experienced “national origin harassment” in the Adams County […]
Feds: Schools can’t shut out undocumented immigrants
*Key here is the fact that the Administration had to rule on this matter again, that it had to clarify something that should have been settled. It seems some people, […]
Studies highlight teacher-student ‘diversity gap’
*This matters. 48 percent of students in U.S. public schools are not white. Of the 3.3 million teachers in America’s public schools, only eighteen percent are racial, ethnic or cultural […]
Hispanic College Enrollment Up, But Not By Enough
*Timely information, given the recent Supreme Court decision on Affirmative Action. There’s more to this story than numbers and enrollment rates. The enrollment is concentrated in community colleges and for-profit […]
Why new Barack Obama Chicago public high school is unjust for Latinos
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco Today, Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Emanuel announced a new selective-enrollment high school on the near North side of Chicago. The new school—which will only accept students based […]
Voice of first U.S. Hispanic justice heard in major race case
*This report is a good summary of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s 58 page dissent against the Court’s upholding of a Michigan law that bans Affirmative Action in college admissions. VL By Joan […]
More Latinos than Whites Just Enrolled In UC Schools. That Could Be a Political Problem.
*A different look at the Latino enrollment at UC Schools story. Although this story doesn’t touch on it, this is also in contrast with the Supreme Court’s upholding of a […]
High court upholds Mich affirmative action ban
*There’s an important semantic issue at play in this story.Technically, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an election, because it was an election, not because of the result. Michigan voters decided […]
Teachers should not be Facebook friends with students
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco A New Hampshire substitute teacher lost her job because she would not unfriend over 250 students on Facebook. Stevens High School officials gave the 79-year-old substitute Carol Thebarge […]
The undeclared political war between Latinos and Asians
*Latino proponents of affirmative action in higher educatin in California have encountered an unlikely adversary. The Asian community has rallied against affirmative action. At issue: the disproportionate percentage of Asians […]
