One family’s quest for a better life and education for their U.S.-born children leads them south of the border.
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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face? Puerto Rico’s school system, the sixth largest in the U.S., is reeling from repeated natural disasters and enrollment losses. Can new federal attention help?
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En la ciudad de Nueva York y en todo el país, están en auge los programas educativos con financiamientos públicos para doulas de color. Un movimiento que aboga por que Medicaid cubra los servicios de doula para personas embarazadas de bajos ingresos ha tenido éxito en varios estados, y la carrera de doula se ha vuelto más accesible para las personas de color.
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How one nonprofit program in Florida is trying to shrink the academic and financial gaps for farmworker families.
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Living the disparity of trans legislation in Mexico and Europe.
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In New York City and across the country, publicly-funded education programs for doulas of color are booming. A movement to advocate for Medicaid to cover doula services for low-income, pregnant people, has succeeded in several states, which helps make a doula career more accessible to people of color.
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El Distrito Unificado de Los Ángeles apuesta por la tutoría para la recuperación tras la pandemia, pero el progreso en muchas escuelas es lento.
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Young people who cross the border need more than just workplace safety regulations.
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Los Angeles Unified bets on tutoring for post-pandemic recovery, but progress at many schools is slow.
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Many asylum seekers in the United States journeyed through danger in Latin America. Then, thousands were bussed from the border to await far-off immigration court dates in far-off places like New York. Now many are stuck, forced to beg churches for help or take low-paid clandestine jobs to support families and pay off smugglers.
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Mientras continúa la batalla legal sobre un plan de perdón de préstamos estudiantiles federales, muchas familias latinas enfrentan situaciones difíciles cuando se trata de crecientes deudas universitarias.
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Overextended volunteers offer a warm welcome and friendly faces to asylum seekers after a long treacherous journey. At times, needs outstrip capacity.
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As the battle continues over a federal student loan forgiveness plan, many Latino families face their own tough circumstances when it comes to ballooning college debt.
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The Rio Grande Valley is at the epicenter of an Alzheimer’s spike among Latinos. Yet Texas, with a $33 billion budget surplus, spends far less on this devastating form of dementia than other large states.
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En una entrevista de amplio espectro con palabra, el Secretario de Educación Miguel Cardona compartió su visión para el futuro de la educación, y ofreció su perspectiva sobre el alivio de deuda estudiantil y la seguridad escolar.
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From confinement in a cell to homelessness in a foreign country.
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In a wide-ranging interview with palabra, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona laid out his vision for the future of education, and his take on student debt relief and school safety.
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Undocumented students win a fight for educational equality in Arizona, but their future remains uncertain.
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Access to maternal health in the U.S. presents challenges for immigrant women, with or without papers, but advocates are pushing for policies to remedy that.
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