According to a new report, while college enrollment numbers for Latino males continues to rise, they still lag behind female Latinos in terms of college enrollment. This disparity increases as the level of higher education increases. The report, from Excelencia in Education, found that Latino males represent half of the traditional college-aged Americans in total. Other findings from the report were that Latino male high school dropout rates have decreased significantly. In 2014, the high school dropout rate for Latino males was 12% down considerably from 26% in 2005. The graduation rates for Latino males and females have proven to be similar, with Latino males at 49% and females at 51%. Latinos are also the second largest group of college-age males overall. In 2014, Latinos ...
As reported by the Long Beach Press-Telegram, a community-based think tank in Long Beach, Calif. (42% Latino population) detailed in a new report how the city is facing economic troubles along ethnic and geographic lines. According to the report entitled “Long Beach Equity Atlas: Geographical Opportunity” by ReThinking Greater Long Beach, poverty among children and adults is concentrated in communities of ethnic and racial minorities, specifically in the south central and west areas while wealth is concentrated in the areas populated mostly by whites in the north central and east side of Long Beach. “The rate of poverty will increase, and we will reach a point where the reserves of the city will be at such a drain ... we will have to go to bankruptcy,” said Alex J. Norman, a ...
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau offers a look at the differences in educational attainment for the different races and ethnicities. The study found that 93.3% of non-Hispanic whites over the age of 25 graduated from high school and Asians and non-Hispanic whites were more likely to hold a bachelor’s degree than Hispanics/Latinos. For Latinos, there has been a positive trend in terms of education. In 1988, 10% of Latino adults (25 years or older) had obtained a bachelor’s degree or higher. In 2015, the rate rose to 15%. However, compared to non-Hispanic whites (36% in 2015), Latinos still lag far behind. Latinos were the only group where the percentage of the native population with a bachelor’s degree or higher was higher than the percentage of the foreign-born ...
The Springfield City Council has voted to authorize seven million dollars to help support a growing meals program for the state's second largest public school system. The money will help purchase and renovate a warehouse dedicated to help save taxpayers money and provide healthier school meals for the city's 30,000 impoverished kids, by housing all food-related operations for the district into one place. The school's department of finance chief Patrick Roach explained that the warehouse will help save the program over half a million dollars a year, and help create a culinary and nutrition center that will allow for more scratch cooking and less processed foods. The warehouse will also allow high school students learning opportunities and provide 40 additional full-time jobs to ...
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), as part of an ongoing partnership with Facebook, recently announced upgrades to an education/technology center at Mission Graduates, a non-profit organization focused on college attainment K-12 students, located in San Francisco, Calif. “With the support of Facebook, LULAC will continue to ensure that the Latino community in San Francisco has access to up to date technology which will allow Latino students to compete at a level playing field,” said LULAC National President Roger C. Rocha, Jr. As part of LULAC’s Empower Hispanic America with Technology (EHAT) initiative, the upgrades to the center include new desktop computers, high-speed Internet, and software. The goal of EHAT is to close the technology gap in underserved ...
The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture announced on March 7th, 2016, that they will continue to support the ongoing success of child nutrition programs like the School Breakfast Program. Agriculture Undersecretary Kevin Concannon said in a recent article, that the USDA will award $6.8 million in competitive Team Nutrition Training Grants to help provide support to schools and child care sites for successful implementation of healthy meals. According to the USDA, participation in school breakfast programs has increased by almost 27 percent; over 14 million students are now eating school breakfast each day. Nutritious meals are important to many Latino kids across the nation that eat more than half of their daily calories at school.
The Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS), a ...
The Board of Education in the Miss. Dept. of Education voted on Thursday, February 18, 2016, in support of the Smart Snacks Standard, making nutrition and healthy choices easier for students to access within the school. Part of the change allows the schools to ban junk food fundraisers, such as doughnuts, pizzas and candy bars. Along with this, small training grants will help boost school wellness councils that support healthy school changes. According to Preventobesity.net, the grants will give 100 schools a $3,000 grant to support healthy habits across schools. See how offering healthier options in schools for Latino kids may help their health, here! To read more about this change, click ...
With funds received on January 6th from the Colorado Health Foundation, kids at Akron School will have a variety of fresh vegetables to choose for lunch with their new salad bar. The new salad bar offers students cucumbers, pea salad, garbanzo beans, dressings, apples, sliced carrots, and more. Washington County Connections' Healthy Schools Advocate, Holly Thompson, helped obtain the grant for the new salad bar. Meghan Camacho, the Director of the food program for the school has worked with Sarah Kvichackof the LiveWell Colorado School Food Initiative also to help bring healthier meals to students over the last two years. LiveWell Colorado is a nonprofit that is committed to reducing obesity in Colorado by promoting healthy eating and active living. LiveWell helped the Akron ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $5.1 million grant to two graduate university programs in an effort to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities programs at American colleges and universities. New York University and the University of Pennsylvania will partner on the program entitled “Pathways to Professoriate,” which seeks to prepare 90 students from Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) for Ph.D. programs over the next five years. “As the demographic profile of the U.S. changes, the country has a compelling interest in obtaining the full participation of previously underrepresented communities,” said Mariët Westermann, Vice President of the Mellon Foundation. “The past decade has seen considerable gains in doctoral degree attainment for ...
