Our Priorities are: Civic Participation, Civil Rights, Economic Empowerment, Education, Health, Housing, Immigration, Public Service, Technology. EDUCATION: Latino students are the fastest‐growing segment of the public school population and make up nearly one in five public school students. The achievement gap between Latino students and their peers remains wide, and the gap is even more pronounce
d for English language learners (ELLs). This gap, which is evidenced even before children enter kindergarten, has led to an alarmingly high dropout rate and low levels of enrollment in higher education programs. One in every five children under 18 years of age is of Hispanic origin. Only 58% of Latino students are graduating high school in four years. The appallingly low rate at which American high schools graduate minority students could be reversed by increasing the accountability of the states and school districts to adhere to standards that promote positive outcomes, including graduation and college. high schools and colleges raise the graduation rates of Hispanic, African Americans, and Native American students to the levels of Caucasian students by 2020, the potential in personal income would add more than $310 billion to the U.S. economy.
