BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 137
Author: Carter (D)
Amended: 4/12/10 in Assembly
Vote: 21
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Read and adopted, 4/12/10
SUBJECT : Latino Education and Advocacy Week
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution declares the last week of March
every year as a statewide week of advocacy for Latino
education.
ANALYSIS :
Resolution Findings
1.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.Latinos emerged as the largest minority group in the
United States in the new millennium.
3.Statistically, since 1998, Latino children have become
the largest minority student demographic in United States
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public schools.
4.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.
5.Latino students have among the highest dropout rate,
score among the lowest on achievement tests, and have low
college enrollment rates.
6.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.
7.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 : Fiscal Com.: No
CPM:cm 6/30/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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