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|  | The President's sustained commitment to improve educational attainment for all Americans is among the most important activities of his second term.  The Administration's campaign for standards, accountability, and infrastructure remains our best answer for all students.  Against this backdrop, the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans and Federal agencies work closely together to ensure that effective educational and employment opportunities are offered to the Latino community.Federal agencies support the educational attainment and employment of Latinos through several White House Initiative activities.  These activities provide Federal agencies a means to evaluate the impact of their outreach programs and their ability to inform the Latino community about their resources.Activities include:- Federal Agency Annual Performance Reports on Implementing Executive Order 12900  is an assessment of the federal government's programmatic efforts to address the entire educational continuum from early childhood through graduate professional education and federal employment. The assessments include: - 1999 Annual Performance Report    - Executive Summary  Agency Data1998 Annual Performance Report
Executive Summary
- Agency Data   **1995 Annual Performance Report**- Agency Data    Inter-Departmental Council on Hispanic Educational Improvement (IDC)
 is the primary mechanism to catalyze substantial change in the Federal government's provision of educational and employment opportunities for the Latino community.  

IDC Working Groups
 facilitate the work of the IDC by developing effective interagency strategies that improve the educational attainment for Latinos.

Employment of Hispanics initiatives
 address the low number of Hispanic Americans- employed in the Federal government.
All of these activities address Executive Order 12900 and the role and responsibility of each Federal agency to meet the education and employment needs of Latinos.  Overall success of these efforts in creating substantive change depends on the ability of the Federal government to communicate its commitment to the education of Hispanics from all levels.  Without this commitment, federal agencies cannot respond effectively to the needs of the Latino community.  **EMPLOYMENT**Hispanic Americans are the only underrepresented minority group in the Federal government.  With a growing population, federal agencies must act quickly to assess current hiring and training employment practices and determine how they either promote or impede Latino access to federal jobs.  Leading the effort to address Hispanic employment is the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the President's Management Council (PMC).  OPM and the PMIC, has identified recruitment and career development strategies that can be implemented government-wide and increase the number of Hispanics applying for employment with the Federal government. Facilitating the work of OPM and the PMC  is the IDC working group on Hispanic employment.  The working group identifies specific employment concerns and then develops recommendations to forward to the IDC for review and discussion.  The White House Initiative urges federal agencies to participate in OPM's Hispanic employment initiative and determine how they can incorporate Hispanic recruitment strategies within their organization.
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