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Executive Session? Or Violation of Texas Open Meetings Act?
It seemed innocent enough; the Lubbock city Council would recess their specially called council meeting held on January 31st, 2006 and enter into executive session to discuss a personnel matter. The item listed on the agenda read as follows:
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Hispanic Education Starts at Home
There is an education crisis
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 their youngest....
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God Help Us to Be Men
“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 May of 2001, wh....
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LULAC Calls for Preservation of
Top 10% Admissions Rule
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. C....
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HB 2 and Our Kids
So what is happening in Austin concerning our kid’s education? According to many, including LULAC, the NAACP, teacher’s groups and others.... NOTHING GOOD!
Reports from our friends are saying that although the new plan to finance our schools is cal....
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HB2 Be or Not To Be
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 vote on Wed....
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NEA, Congress ‘Will Fight Bush Education Trims in Budget’
Hispanic Link reporters Jarrett Acey and Edwin Reyes interviewed the highest-ranking Hispanic in the 2.7 million-member National Education Association, Secretary-Treasurer Lily Eskelsen, on how she sees NEA and the Congress responding to the bud....
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En Educatión, la Poesía Indica el Camino
Los matemáticos dicen que los números son como la poesía. Dicen que tienen ritmo, concordancia, y belleza. Supongo que así es. En lo personal los números siempre me han parecido un misterio. Muchos poetas dicen que los poemas son misterios, asi....
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In Education, Poetry Shows the Way
Mathematicians say that numbers are like poetry. That numbers have rhythm, harmony and beauty. I guess that it must be so.
Numbers have always seemed a mystery to me personally
Many poets say that poems are mysteries, and, in some way, I arr....
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New education program for US Hispanics to kick off
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 Latino com....
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The Color of Success
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” who also....
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FEDERAL PLAN TO TRACK COLLEGE STUDENTS RAISES LATINO CONCERNS
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 Latino educa....
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