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Fear made her a good student. As a young child, Norma Torres Mendoza knew deportation could end her life in the United States. “I...
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A federal judge on Wednesday put the final nail in the coffin of Arizona’s Republican-backed law banning Mexican-American studies classes in Tucson public...
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A lawsuit has been filed in federal court alleging human rights violations in Holyoke Public Schools. The suit alleges the district fails to provide parents who...
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Bill Sarno/CTLatinoNews.com It’s been nearly three months since Dr. Nivea L. Torres has been able to work or even visit her office, and...
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To reach the Ivy League after growing up poor seems like hitting the jackpot. Students get a world-class education from schools that...
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This fall, undocumented students can apply for a new scholarship to help fund their bachelor’s degrees at Eastern Connecticut State University. The scholarships —...
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The number of Latino men enrolling in college increased 75 percent between 2005 and 2014, from 718,500 to 1.26 million. Yet compared to Latino...
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Millions of kids dream of going into space. But Jose Hernandez made that dream a reality — and he did so against incredible...
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Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com When Hattie Beauchamp was a young Latina growing up in Waterbury her mother gave her a plaque that reads “Climb Until...
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Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com Yale University was founded in 1701. Over 250 years later, in the early 1970s, the first Latinos stepped foot on the...
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Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com They offer salsa classes to foster awareness of their culture and hold forums on immigration to help their members, but Latino student organizations...
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The charter-school industry — consisting of schools that are funded partly by tax dollars but run independently — may be heading toward a...
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Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com Today, it has become widely accepted that being deaf or hearing-impaired is not a disability and the Deaf-world is being...
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Connecticut Public Libraries seek to address the growing digital divide between the state’s diverse communities through its CT Libraries & Partners for Digital Equity...
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Carolina Serna’s job as a care coordinator for the Clifford Beers, a behavioral health care provider based in New Haven, puts her in the middle...