Southeast Unprepared to Teach Hispanics
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The Southeast has the nation's fastest-growing Hispanic population but is perhaps the region least prepared to teach public school students who don't know English, a new study shows.
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Every day, emergency responders and law enforcement officers nationwide help non-English-speaking people whose lives might be in immediate danger. The job is particularly challenging for small agencies in the South, which has seen a recent influx of Hispanic residents.
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At the end of her teaching day, Felicita Figueroa would like nothing more than to leave her crumbling, rat-infested school building in the Puerto Rican capital. But to pay her bills, she needs to stay late and offer private tutoring sessions.
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STERLING, Va. The National Weather Service says public warnings in advance of Hurricane Isabel as it approached Virginia and Maryland last fall -- failed to include information important to homeowners and businesses in coastal areas.
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The National Resources Defense Council report shows Hispanics, now a majority in some of the nation&#39;s most polluted areas, are particularly threatened by waterborne diseases, air pollution, pesticides and contaminants such as lead and mercury.
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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COMO, Miss. -- Of all the nation's elementary schools, the one serving this poor, rural crossroads is at the bottom of the heap.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Native leaders in Atlantic Canada are demanding that a social studies textbook being prepared for Grade 7 students be delayed due to concerns about historical errors and stereotyping.
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CARACAS - President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez threatened yesterday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some Venezuelans fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom.
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Hispanics are nearly twice as likely as whites to be left without television service following the nationwide transition to digital broadcasting next year, according to a new survey.
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As an economic slowdown and the subprime mortgage crisis deepen across the United States, Hispanic immigrants are increasingly in danger of losing their jobs and their homes.
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Â· Brown says burden must be shared out better  Â· US secretary of state's concern at threat in south
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The federal disaster exercises taking place this week are supposed to prepare us for a real dirty bomb attack. So something is missing
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Before Bob Jansen can teach English to the adult immigrants in his lowest-level class, he has to show about a quarter of them how to hold a pencil.
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky  - Seventeen-year-old Quantae Williams doesn't understand why the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his school district's racial diversity program.
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The number of southern U.S. evangelical Christians is not growing as fast as the wider population, leading to a renewed effort to win converts on the domestic front from key groups like the Hispanic community.
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Schools aren't sure why enrollment is down. Some experts cite rising fears among illegal immigrants.