Scholarship amounts range from $500 -]]> We are looking for a few outstanding senior and graduate level college and university students to work in our OVERSEAS offices to promote U.S. agricultural interests through the International]]> If so, you probably attended Lubbock High School.

Did you attend or graduate from]]> Parents must be vigilant and very carefull with how the teachers and principals treat our children in school.In the short time that I taught High School in two different area Schools, and observed teachers and]]> Our new pulse of the Hispanic Community question of the week asked about recently named Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance and his concern or lack of concern for the Hispanic Community. The question pointed out that “To date,]]> Today, more than five million English language learners, or ELLs, are enrolled in this nation's public schools. That's up from just two million a decade ago.

The first language of the vast majority of these students is Spanish. In fact,]]> Former U.S. Rep. Herman Badillo, once a champion of federal education programs benefiting Latinos, has stirred a storm in his home state of New York with his claim that Hispanics do not care as much about education as do other immigrant]]> has reached a boiling point
with about one-third of the state’s public high school students “more than 120,000 young people failing to graduate with a regular diploma in 2006,” according to a new analysis]]> I see anger in the way they scrawl their names on assignments. I see it in their threatening]]> In the face of statistics that
continue to show dropout
rates as high as 50% in many communities with dominant Hispanic populations, Hispanic school board members, municipal officials and state legislators have proposed a set of]]> among Latinos in the
United States. But don't tell that to Samuel Perez, Sr.
You see, Samuel and his wife, Maria Elena, both Mexican immigrants who never got past the sixth grade themselves, just saw]]> “Wherever the poor sweat in the vineyards, wherever workers struggle in silence and hardship, wherever their families long for decent housing and heath care and education, there Cesar lives,”
Joseph P. Kennedy, II
March 30, 2005
In]]> Austin, TX - The National Board of the League of United Latin American Citizens voted unanimously to support the continuation of a Texas law that guarantees college admission to students who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class.]]> Reports from our friends are saying that although the new plan to finance our schools is]]> HB2 Be or Not To Be
By Abel Cruz
In a clear party line vote reminiscent of the battle between affluent and poor Texas school districts, the Texas legislative Public Education Committee approved House Bill 2 by a Republican majority 6-3]]> Numbers have always seemed a mystery to me personally
Many poets say that poems are mysteries, and, in some way,]]> The new distance-learning program called EDUCAMEXUS, which educates US Hispanics, including undocumented immigrants, is reported to offer a Bachelor's Degree option this year.
"We are about to reach an agreement so that all the Arizona]]> By Abel Cruz
In a recently released study by the Pew Hispanic Center, and reported on the Los Angeles Times website, “42% of US born (California) Mexican Americans identified themselves as white, compared with 63% of those born in Texas”]]>
A federal proposal to create a national database by obtaining individual information on all college and university students is expected to be considered by Congress early next year.
The idea is attracting critical attention of some]]>