Although Latinos are poised to become the largest ethnic minority group in the country, they also remain one of the most educationally disadvantaged groups in the United States. All Rights Reserved. According to the U.S. Department of Education, about a third of Latinos do not have a high school diploma. Less than 13 percent have bachelors or other advanced degrees. And unlike other ethnic groups who have experienced lower drop out rates in the last 25 years, among Latinos, the number has remained steady at between 30 to 35 percent.
Hispanic children continue to attend public schools that are ethnically and economically segregated.
Other studies indicate that students who attend intensely segregated minority schools are 11 times as likely to be enrolled in a school with high poverty rates compared to a student who attends a school where the Latino and black population is fewer. Martinez-Ebers, associate professor and director of the Washington Internship Program at Texas Christian University is one of a few tenured Latina political scientists in the country. It is very complicated. I am sure that both reasons are very valid. The school boards, the administrators and teachers, unless they are Latino they truthfully just don't even think of these things.