Last week, a bipartisan Latino coalition announced its support of vouchers. Today, another group says vouchers would harm Latino students.

PHOENIX -- With potentially high stakes for Arizona taxpayers and thousands of predominantly Latino students, a federal appeals court is being asked to decide whether the state has done enough to improve school programs for students learning English.

Members of the Legislature's African American, Latino and Asian caucuses convened a town hall meeting in a show of solidarity on the eve of last week's hearing into Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's universal health care plan.

Gov. Rendell is expected to name Heidi A. Ramirez, an education specialist who heads an urban education program at Temple University, to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission tomorrow. Ramirez, who has a doctorate in the sociology of education from Stanford University and directs the urban education collaborative at Temple, would be the first Latina on the five-member commission, which was ...

Cultural stereotypes about Hispanics could impede Latino youth from seeking help for drug and alcohol abuse. In turn, substance-abuse treatment providers must better understand how their own attitudes toward culture can affect the provision of sufficient behavioral health services, according to a new study.

BELMOND -- Yuri McVey has become a valuable commodity at Northwest Federal Savings Bank.

Good results seen in some schools Marisa Tinoco's school, Pasteur Elementary near Midway Airport, went to a year-round schedule three years ago to ease overcrowding.