BILL NUMBER: ACR 137	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 22, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Carter

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   Relative to Latino Education and Advocacy Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 137, as amended, Carter. Latino Education and Advocacy Week.
   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, in general, are the most undereducated
segment of the United States population, and are more than twice as
likely to be undereducated than all other minority groups combined;
and 
   WHEREAS, Latino students have  among  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 high school, and have had little progress in increasing
college graduation rates over the last few decades; and
   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, Beginning March 29, 2010, California State University,
San Bernardino, College of Education will host its inaugural Latino
Education and Advocacy Week summit; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That every year the last week of March 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.