Latinx LGBTQ Youth Report | Human Rights Campaign

Latinx LGBTQ Youth Report | Human Rights Campaign

Latinx LGBTQ Youth Report

In 2017, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation partnered with researchers at the University of Connecticut to conduct a groundbreaking survey of over 12,000 LGBTQ youth and capture their experiences in their families, schools, social circles and communities. More than 2,900 LGBTQ Latinx youth responded to the survey. This resource presents data collected from these Latinx youth, shedding light on their challenges and triumphs encountered while navigating multiple, intersecting identities. 

Additionally, you can learn more about the intersectional challenges that LGBTQ Latinx Americans can face when coming out in HRC's Living Authentically as LGBTQ Latinx Americans.  

Download the 2018 LGBTQ Latinx Youth Report or flip through the digital version below. 

Latinx LGBTQ Youth Report | Human Rights Campaign

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Asks Florida DoE to End Biased Hair Policies

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Asks Florida DoE to End Biased Hair Policies

Education, Not Discrimination: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Asks Florida Schools to End Biased Hair Policies

As children returned to school this fall, new teachers and classmates weren’t the only things that greeted some students. More than one story surfaced of children being turned away, or sent home from school, because of culturally-specific hairstyles like braids or dreadlocks. One such child was six-year-old Clinton Stanley, Jr., whose story went viral when he was denied his first day at A Book Christian Academy in Apopka, Fla., because his dreadlocks were deemed non-compliant with the school’s dress code.

The Dress Code Is Discrimination? First Grader Denied His First Day of School for Dreadlocks

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A Book Christian Academy is only one of many private evangelical schools in Florida enacting this type of policy. Many of the schools participate in the Hope Scholarship program, Florida’s new school voucher program. (A Book Academy is not part of the voucher program but does benefit from government funding.) While the publicly-funded scholarship program was, ironically, implemented to help students escape bullying in public schools, an investigation by the Huffington Post revealed that as many as Continue reading: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Asks Florida DoE to End Biased Hair Policies

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We’ve known since the 1940s that kids don’t do well in school when they’re hungry

We’ve known since the 1940s that kids don’t do well in school when they’re hungry

We’ve known since the 1940s that kids don’t do well in school when they’re hungry

National School Lunch week is here (October 15-19), a time for shining the spotlight on this essential program that feeds hungry children.

For just a moment, let’s take a step back in time to see what President Harry Truman and the United States Army were doing about school lunches in the fall of 1946.

Truman had recently signed the National School Lunch Act, which provided meals for needy children.  This meant free or reduced price school lunches for children of families living in poverty. The school lunches meant better health and education.

“The well-nourished school child is a better student. He is healthier and more alert. He is developing good food habits which will benefit him for the rest of his life” explained the President.

Truman sought to spread the initiative as far as possible. This was vital for the health of children, and of the nation.

President Truman proclaimed “The school lunch program provides a cooperative means of assuring adequate nutrition for millions of our children who otherwise might be denied this basic need.”

But Truman also cautioned that more needed to be done. Hunger is relentless.  We must keep advancing school feeding. Truman said “This is a splendid start, but we must look forward to the day when the lunches are available in every community in every State and territory.”

Our National School Lunch Program has been expanded in the decades since Truman. Thirty million children depend on these meals during the school year today. But the Continue reading: We’ve known since the 1940s that kids don’t do well in school when they’re hungry

CURMUDGUCATION: John White Remains Confused

CURMUDGUCATION: John White Remains Confused

John White Remains Confused

Last week the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) network held its annual meeting, this time in New Orleans. It's a jolly gathering of all our reform friends, and this year it featured a speech from Louisiana school chief John White, the test of which was run by Fordham's Flypaper blog. I'll warn you-- this starts out just sort of ill-formed, and ends up pretty awful. But it is a window, once again, on how fully lost some reformsters are.

White has a hefty reform pedigree-- Teach for America, TFA director, Joel Klein's team in NYC, Broad Academy of Faux Superintendency). The headline that gave this piece some legs and attention was White's observation that education is no longer a political winner, which is only slightly more insightful than suggesting that Barack Obama will probably win the Democratic nomination over Hilary Clinton. Or as I've commented elsewhere, 2018-- the year I run out of new ways to say "And you just figured this out now..."

White does note that the 2016 election put paid to the notion that education would be an important political issue. Jeb! Bush tried to make education a chunk of his campaign foundation, and Campbell Brown tried to set up a website that would position her as arbiter of the education discussion (remember when she staged education summits and nobody came). In 2016, people who banked on education as an issue were like folks who speculated in real estate, but the railroad went through some other town.

But White believes this lack of political interest in education is a serious problem. I don't disagree with that basic point-- it sucks that politicians, leaders, media outlets, and strangers on the street aren't more interested in what goes on in the world of education. But beyond that-- well, I find White's analysis suspect at best.

Education reform has made positive gains in this country for the people whom it’s set out to serve without question.

Yes, "without question" probably belongs somewhere else in that sentence, but it's a sentence that Continue reading: CURMUDGUCATION: John White Remains Confused