Facts about Latino Students
Facts Concerning Latino Students in elementary and high school as well as college: Preschool: 1. ... 36% of Latino children live in poverty and only 26% attend Head Start programs, which are designed to remedy the effects of poverty on educational achievement. ... 70% of preschool teachers state that they are not prepared to meet the needs of students with limited English proficiency or from diverse cultural backgrounds. ... Latino students attend schools with more than twice as many poor classmates as those attended by white students. ... Teachers: only about 4% of public schools teachers are Latinos whereas Latino students make up about 15% of the student body.