BILL NUMBER: ACR 109	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 3, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brown

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   Relative to Latino Education and Advocacy Days.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 109, as amended, Brown. Latino Education and Advocacy Days.
   This measure would declare the last week of March every year as a
statewide week of advocacy for Latino education.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The strength of the California education system and its
place in a competitive global economy will depend largely on future
educational outcomes among Latino students; and
   WHEREAS, Latinos emerged as the largest minority group in the
United States in the new millennium; and
   WHEREAS, Statistically, since 1998, Latino children have become
the largest minority student demographic in United States public
schools; and
   WHEREAS, Both Latino students and teachers have a high mobility
rate, are located in racially segregated communities with high
poverty rates, and attend schools with fewer resources, staffing, and
programs; and
   WHEREAS, Latino students have the highest dropout rate, score
among the lowest on achievement tests, and have low college
enrollment rates; and
   WHEREAS, One-half of all Latino students currently fail to
graduate from high school, and have had little progress in increasing
college graduation rates over the last few decades; and
   WHEREAS, According to Current Population Survey data released by
the United States Census Bureau in March 2010, out of 100 Latino
males and 100 Latina females in elementary school, 64 Latino males
and 61 Latina females graduate from high school, 11 Latino males and
9.2 Latina females graduate with a bachelor of arts or a bachelor of
science degree, 3.6 Latino males and 3.0 Latina females graduate with
a professional or graduate degree, and 0.4 Latino males and 0.7
Latina females graduate with a doctorate degree.
   WHEREAS, Latino students represent an opportunity to increase
diversity, strengthen the tax, labor, consumption, and investment
pool, and increase ties with Mexico and Latin America; and
   WHEREAS, On March 27, 2014, California State University, San
Bernardino, College of Education will host its  inaugural
  5th Annual  Latino Education and Advocacy Days
summit; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the last week of March every year is hereby
declared as a statewide week of advocacy for Latino education; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.