President to focus on needs of Latino students

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Source: CNN

The unique challenge facing Hispanics and educators will be the focus of a town hall meeting by President Barack Obama at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington on Monday.

Latino students make up over 20% of the pre-K through high school students in the United States, Secretary of the Education Arne Duncan said in a conference call with reporters Friday. "These students face real and growing challenges that we have to address."

Duncan said that only about half of all Latino students earn their high school diploma on time, and only one in eight end up with a bachelor's degree.

The problems faced by Latinos in high school are unique, said Juan Sepulveda of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/27/obama.hispanics/index.html

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And this title generated all sorts of bigotry in the comments section.

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1. RE: The comments

Apparently, many of those commenting believe that every Latino is an "illegal." Sad.

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2. Money for Hispanics? No pandering there.

What about everyone else and everything else that this country needs to stay in the game? Oh, I forgot, business gets most of us and we fight over the crumbs. GWB III.