BY JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD Educational attainment among U.S. Latinos has been changing rapidly in recent years, reflecting the group’s growth in the nation’s public K-12 schools and colleges. Over the past decade, the Hispanic high school dropout rate has declined and college enrollment has increased, even as Hispanics trail other groups in earning a bachelor’s […]
The U.S. Department of Education today released guidance to states and school districts on the new provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for supporting homeless youth. The new provisions address the needs of homeless individuals, and ensure educational rights and protections for homeless children and youth. The guidance released today will assist state […]
PHOENIX — KidsCare returned to Arizona on Tuesday after a more than five-year absence and advocates expect to sign up more than 30,000 children for access to free or affordable medical, dental and vision care by the end of the year. “Insurance is more than just a card, it really represents having access to care,” […]
By JOANNE DAVIDSON The roads that led Dr. Andrea Gerard-Gonzalez to the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora weren’t all eight-lane expressways. A few of them weren’t even covered in asphalt. But each can be seen as a metaphor in the journey that brought her to Colorado, where she […]
Local School Wellness Policy and Smart Snacks among Four Regulations Ensuring Access to Healthy Food, Consistent Nutrition Standards for Foods Marketed and Served to Students, and Greater Program Integrity WASHINGTON, July 21, 2016 – Today, the Obama Administration is announcing four final rules that implement important provisions of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) building […]
For decades, demographers have been predicting that around 2050, whites will no longer make up the majority share of the U.S. population. Children under the age of 6 are already there: More than half are black, Asian, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander or some combination. By 2020, the majority of all U.S. children won’t be […]
Broadband use little changed in recent years among Hispanics BY ANNA BROWN, GUSTAVO LÓPEZ AND MARK HUGO LOPEZ The long-standing digital divide in internet use between Latinos and whites is now at its narrowest point since 2009 as immigrant Latinos and Spanish-dominant Latinos make big strides in going online, according to newly released results from […]
By Shannon Gleeson The announcement of the recent Supreme Court decision comes as little surprise to those who have followed the case. The State of Texas originally challenged President Obama’s authority to provide deportation relief and work authorization to nearly 4.4 million undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents under the 2014 Deferred […]
By Sarah M. Wojcik – The Morning Call Tere’s one common thread among the immigrant parents that math teacher Christa Wolak has met with during her five years at Allentown’s Newcomer Academy: They care — a lot. The vast majority of students at the special Allentown School District facility, a school dedicated to preparing non-English speaking […]
The National Latino Children’s Institute focuses the nation’s attention on issues and challenges facing young Latinos. One of the issues millions of Latino¹ families and children face is living in households without reliable access to healthy foods. This means that, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), these households are “food insecure”—they do not […]
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