Posted on 04/29/2011 1:21:06 PM PDT by jazusamo
America’s progress is “impossible” if Hispanics keep lagging in education because their success is of “immediate and long term importance” to the U.S. economy, according to a new Obama Administration report that vows to enhance opportunities for the “Latino community.”
Published this week by the Department of Education, the enlightening document ( Winning the Future; Improving Education for the Latino Community ) says that the success of Hispanics in education and in the labor market is crucial to the nation’s economy. The information comes as the president launches a full-throttle campaign pandering to immigrants and their liberal advocates. It was also conveniently released to coincide with Obama’s junior college commencement speech today in MiamiFlorida, which has an immense Hispanic population that includes many illegal immigrants.
Tragically, Hispanics have the lowest education attainment level of any group in the country, which means that the nation’s economy is at stake if you believe the Obama Administration’s argument. That’s because Hispanics face “persistent obstacles to educational attainment.” Those include low enrollment in early learning programs, dismal high school graduation rates and the fact that few Hispanics complete graduate or professional degree programs.
This is unacceptable since Latinos (the report uses Hispanics and Latinos interchangeably) are by far the largest minority group in the American public education system, according to the DOE. More than 12.4 million Hispanics are enrolled in U.S. elementary, middle and highs schools, which accounts for about 22% of all students in the taxpayer-funded system.
“Hispanic students have graduated at lower rates than the rest of the population for years, making America’s progress impossible if they continue to lag behind,” according to Juan Sepulveda, the community activist Obama appointed to run the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. “Strengthening and improving educational excellence in this community isn’t just a Hispanic problem,” he added. “It’s a challenge to the entire country.”
Sepulveda, who claims that Latino education attainment is important in the global contest for jobs and industries, was rewarded with his cushy DOE job after serving as chair of Obama’s presidential campaign in Texas. Truth is that the DOE, created by Jimmy Carter, is largely viewed as an unnecessary federal agency that interferes with public education, which is supposed to be run by states.
Before joining the Obama Administration Sepulveda ran a well-funded Texas nonprofit that works to reduce “cultural tensions” by doing things like creating a “bi-national community” in the San Diego/Tijuana border area. Part of his education initiative includes developing the next generation of Latino teachers with “minority-serving institutions.”
Dear DOE
Why are you speaking? This issue does not concern you.
Kindly STFU
Sincerely Cripplecreek.
Half right, you missed the second DE. DEfund the DEpartment of Education and DEport the illegals. That will solve most of the problem. Then eliminate welfare, then able bodied citizens will do the jobs illegal aliens won’t do.
It’s certainly true that the progress of Democrats depends on Latinos.
The DOE needs to read the book “Mexifornia” and they will see why Hispanics lag so far behind. Nothing the DOE is going to do to change things under this admin. It’s running exactly the way they want it to.
America’s progress is “impossible” if Hispanics keep lagging in education because their success is of “immediate and long term importance” to the U.S. economy, according to a new Obama Administration report that vows to enhance opportunities for the “Latino community.”
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Really? Well how about we try and improve matters by allowing millions more illegal immigrants and their children in and enroll them in our already over-crowed and under-funded schools?
That will surely work, right?
/bitter sarc
I swear, I do not understand this. I live in Texas. I ask Mexican Americans who have been here for generations how and why they want illegals to come. Hispanics are alreadly at the low end of the totem pole for jobs, housing, education and all other social benefits. More illegals will only make it harder for them. So why?
All the Agencies gotta go. The stock market is going up on overseas profits where our companies can sell to free markets that are not strangled by all our Feral Agencies.
CSPAN had three US State Department “committee” directors spewing the tolerance message favoring Muslims, observing discrimination wherever it happens, and encouraging grassroots to assert themselves. Now, why would the State Department be tracking, poking and needling Americans on their civil rights? The State Dept all over the world are actively turning protectionist and forming activist groups to promote and protect everyone but Christians, and innocent babies in the womb, to favor and pander to Muslims, who may or may not be radical.
Dear DOE,
What he said! Phhhhhttttttt
America’s progress depends on true, patriotic Americans...all the others are just FREELOADERS.
Exactly. And for Latinos or any person who drops out of school will more than likely be one of those freeloaders until the day they die.
So, no longer is it ‘illegal’ to be illegal, but now we have to worry about whether or not they are being ‘educated’ properly?
Let's give them $1,000,000? Why not? Obama’s paper trash is worth as much as his non-existant resume’ or birth certificate.
Why don't we just give everybody on Earth a million dollars. Its only dollars. Who cares?
Aye.... The Leftist dream world. Isn't it Wonderful!?
Progress towards what, exactly? Funny how Liberals never define that. We should ask that question of Liberals much more often.
All part of the all out propaganda campaign to energize the Hispanic vote prior to the 2012 elections. Obama is in trouble with Hispanics because he failed to get anything passed on immigration reform despite having an overwhelmingmajority in Congress for the first two years. Now he must create the impression that he pushing the Hispanic agenda and the Reps are obstructing it.
Bureau of the Census: An Older and More Diverse Nation by Midcentury
Meanwhile, the Hispanic population is projected to nearly triple, from 46.7 million to 132.8 million during the 2008-2050 period. Its share of the nation's total population is projected to double, from 15 percent to 30 percent. Thus, nearly one in three U.S. residents would be Hispanic.
Why don’t we just rename America, Los Estados De Mexico Norte?
Hey, as long as they don’t do that reconquista thing, I feel better going back sleep../s
Take all the troops out of Libya and put them on the Mexican boarder. It is insanity.
Our government is no longer ‘us’. I don't know if they are just idiots. Or, they are simply trying to dismantle America. The effect is the same.
If we got rid of every politician in Washington, it would be a blessing.
They are not ‘representing’ us
They are ‘ruling’ us.
There won’t be enough whites to pay for all that welfare. Hispanics had better be successful to carry America’s welfare load.
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