Enseñamos en el Valle Central Information to come… NLERAP Grow-Your-Own Latina/o Teacher Pipeline As the Associate Director of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP) I helped to lead a collaboration between institutions of higher education, local K-12 districts, and community-based organizations focused on increasing the representation of critically conscious, bilingual teachers in [...]
In a recent study titled, “In Increasingly Diverse Texas, Political Analysis is Anything But” the Texas Research Institute found that when it comes to public policy narratives in Texas, a mere seven political scientists—all male, all Anglo—dominate media coverage. These seven individuals were quoted by the media 1,331 times from June 1 to December 31, 2014. The [...]
Recently, I shared the Senate Hispanic Caucus (SHC) and Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) Latina/o K-12 and Higher Education Policy Agenda. This collaboration between the SHC-MALC Latina/o Education Task Force, 70 participating organizations, and the nearly 200 participants—128 of which are proud Texas bilingual teachers—is an initial step towards reframing state-level policy discourses and debates in Texas public and higher education. [...]
It is with great honor that I share the Senate Hispanic Caucus (SHC) and Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) Latina/o K-12 and Higher Education Policy Agenda. As the Principal Investigator of the research agenda and Co-chair of the SHC/MALC Education Task Force, it has been a privilege to collaborate with the 70 participating organizations and [...]
I’m proud that my recent Op-Ed piece, “Texas Latinos and the Politics of Change,” was published in the Huffington Post, Latino Voices. The following is the text: Much of today’s reporting on Texas public education has increasingly become a narrow overplay of what we already know. Rather than solely recycling stories about the somber trends [...]
