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School's Out -- For Good, for Too Many Mississippi Students
GREENVILLE, Miss. -- As a parent, I've experienced the frustration of trying to get my children prepared for college. My son had no certified science or math teachers in high school. We sent him to a math summer camp and got him tutoring, and now he's doing fine in college. But why did I have to pay out of pocket for educational services I had already paid for with my taxes?
Some may complain that Mississippi can't afford to spend more on quality education. But in fact, we can't afford not to. Investment in quality education will come back to the state many-fold in taxes paid by productive workers and in fewer people incarcerated. Read more...
Equal Voice Town Hall Draws 200 People
A recent, March 2008, New Mexico Community Foundation grant provided support towards the Santa Fe Equal Voice Town Hall Meeting, bringing together diverse populations in a local setting in ways to promote healthy, respectful and proactive dialogue and discussions with the aim to identify concrete recommendations for improvement of negative conditions and limited resources that impact their lives.
The invited communities within Santa Fe and the surrounding areas included families with limited income, Native Americans and immigrant families, farmers and ranchers and others historically marginalized by economics, education, politics and ethnicity.
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The High Cost of Not Trilling an 'R' Spanish-Style
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MIAMI -- If you were from Haiti in the late 1930s, where French and Creole were (and still are) the primary languages, the inability to trill an “r” Spanish-style at a border crossing into neighboring Dominican Republic could have cost you your life.
Today, 70 years later, some Haitians, Zacharie Desjardins among them, feel they are subject to a Spanish language litmus test for employment in yet another country – Miami. Read more...
What is the Campaign for America's Families
Equal Voice for America's Families is a campaign to lay the groundwork for a family led movement for social change. The goal: a sustained shift in national attitudes and policies affecting poor and working families.
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