California May Add Latino Seats With Redistricting

As we reported previously, California’s first batch of redistricting wasn’t particularly complimentary to Latinos and other minorities in California. Since, the redistricting commission has taken a second stab at it, […]

Democratic senate candidate from New Mexico Hector Balderas will tell you one thing flat out: it’s not because he’s Latino. Balderas, his home state’s former state auditor, is confident that […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a release from The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center.] Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high […]

This week in San Antonio, Texas hundreds of Latino legislators from all across the country, across levels of government, will gather to discuss a wide variety of issues affecting the […]

Hispanic? Latino? Mexicano? Chicano? Does It Matter? John McCain: Arizona Wildfires Caused By Immigrants Floating On The Border

We all know that education is the key to our future, yet, as Latino students increasingly make up a majority of students in our nation’s school districts, these institutions are […]

I’m as Hispanic as the Latino next door – so whether I’m one or the other is a matter of definition. That said, it’s hard to  pinpoint one meaning that […]

Former Texas State Demographer and Census Director Steve Murdock made an excellent presentation about the state’s Census results. He talks about the growing Latino population, growing Latino children in the […]

You know the old clichéd saying that not all that glitters is gold. Case in point is Connecticut’s bandied and vaulted education achievement scores. For a very long time that […]

As we start off 2011, I find it an important opportunity to make a comment about something we all tend to take for granted:  Why do we lump together ethnicities […]