by Veronica C. Garcia, Ed.D.
Download this presentation (April 2015; 22 slides; pdf)
Hispanic children are the largest segment of New Mexico’s child population, yet they face numerous barriers to academic and life success–many of them at very young ages.
This PowerPoint presentation, created for the 2015 MAFO national conference, looks at how Hispanic children in New Mexico and the nation are faring, provides a brief overview of the state’s Hispanic Education Act, and offers some policy solutions from our NM KIDS are COUNTing on Us policy agenda for better preparing this future workforce.