Question: Why should you care about Hispanic CREO?
Answer:
- Because in the Classroom 1 in 5 students are Hispanic.
- Because experts say about half of Hispanic Students don’t graduate each year from High School.
- Because dropouts alone cost the US Economy an estimated $335 Billion Dollars.
- Because the majority of those Hispanics that do dropout end up in jail.
If Hispanics were a Country, they would rank #15 in gross domestic products worldwide. But without an education, there is no purchasing power in the Hispanic community. Without an educated workforce, America cannot compete in a Global Economy.
Without Leadership there is no Future. When asked to name the person they consider “the most important Hispanic Leader in the Country today, nearly two thirds (64%) of Hispanic respondents say they do not know”. An additional 10% said “no one”.
Yet, nearly one third of Hispanics expect a Latino descent President to be elected during the next 20 years.
It is this lack of Leadership that makes it difficult for Hispanics to become informed an engaged in the Education Reform Movement.
That is why Parental Awareness is so critical.
We need to help improve the educational outcome of Hispanics in this Nation. Hispanic CREO’s Mission is to improve the educational outcomes for Hispanic Students by empowering families through parental awareness in School Choice. Even as Hispanics emerge as an increasingly dominant force, our country’s current system of Education too often segregates us, denigrates our well being, destroys our youth, deprives us of an opportunity, denudes our community of political power and steals from too many children the dream of opportunity. This failure of our system threatens to widen the disparities within our American Society, deprive our fastest growing population segment of a bright future, and promises destructive and costly social turmoil for our entire Nation. Let there be no doubt that our basic constitutional framework of fundamental rights and freedom is, today, at great risk.
Hispanic CREO is the only national public policy Hispanic organization dedicated solely to K-12 Education reform and who is willing to speak out on behalf of Hispanic parents and children.