According to Minority Nurse magazine, less than 1% of nurses are Hispanic men. Salvador Torres, an 18-year-old senior at Richards Career Academy, hopes to join their ranks. But first, Torres plans to...
I am not a movie person. I don’t go to the movies much and when I do, I often forget them rapidly. That’s not what happened back in 1991, when I saw John Singleton’s breakout debut film “Boyz n the...
In 2016, then-24-year-old Cipriano Vargas became the youngest person ever elected to the Vista Unified School Board in California. After graduating from California State University San Marcos, where...
$23 billion. According to a recent report from Ed Build, that’s the gap in state and local funding between what kids in predominantly White districts are getting and what kids in predominantly...
Chanavia Patterson always knew she would become a teacher, but she didn’t know she would become an outstanding mentor, coach and principal. In 2013, she arrived at a struggling charter school, the...