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                                                                  ACR 137
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          Date of Hearing:   March 25, 2010

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                    ACR 137 (Carter) - As Amended:  March 22, 2010
           
          SUBJECT  :   Latino Education and Advocacy Week.

           SUMMARY  :   Declares the last week of March every year as a  
          statewide week of advocacy for Latino education.  Specifically,  
           this resolution  makes the following legislative findings:  

          1)Statistically, since 1998, Latino children have become the  
            largest minority student demographic in United States public  
            schools; and 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.

          2)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.

          3)Latino students represent an opportunity to increase  
            diversity; strengthen the tax, labor, consumption, and  
            investment pool; and increase ties with Mexico and Latin  
            America.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None.

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file.

           Opposition 
           
          None on file.
           

          Analysis Prepared by  :    Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800