| FOUR
BASIC ELEMENTS ESSENTIAL
TO END PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTRITION
María “Cuca”
Robledo Montecel [Photo]
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Nationally, one student is lost
from our schools every three minutes. As of 2003, two
out of five Latinos ages 16-24 had left high school
without a diploma or GED and never received a high school
credential. That’s 1.4 million young Latinos lost.
This is like losing Atlanta, Kansas City and Milwaukee.
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WHEN FLAG WAVING BECOMES FLAG
BURNING
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo [Photo]
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In the northwest corner of Pennsylvania
this summer, the town of Hazleton fought over a mean-spirited
ordinance that, among other things, would have fined
all landlords renting to any person without residence
papers. The same applied to hiring in Hazleton. The
mayor wanted to give local police additional powers
over immigrants, making officers not peace keepers but
bounty hunters.
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HISPANICS, WALL STREET
SHAPING A PERSONAL BOND
José de la Isla [Photo]
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NEW YORK CITY — Robert D.
Putnum is famous for his academic studies about how
people are joining volunteer groups and organizations
less and less than any time since the turn of the last
century. The nation had the most joiners by the 1960s.
The numbers have steadily declined ever since, until
current historical low levels.
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