Salvador Durán

Helping a population that can’t read or write
Salvador Durán | 12-24-2009 | Comments | Bookmark and Share

As many as 200,000 Los Angeles County Latinos – many of them immigrants – are illiterate, according to the Census Bureau. But Centro Latino for Literacy, a local nonprofit, has a simple solution: Teach them. [...]

Undocumented students receive assistance from state, foundation
Salvador Durán | 10-19-2009 | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Despite anti-immigrant rhetoric, California's undocumented students can still go to college, thanks to a private foundation and a state law--one of the first in the nation--that makes enrollment easier in state colleges and universities.

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