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LULAC Focuses On Education During Day 4 Of The 93rd Annual Convention In San
Juan, Puerto Rico
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Nation’s Largest and Oldest Latino Civil Rights Organization Hosts Sessions on a
Variety of Issues Facing Latinos, including the State of our Nation’s Schools
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San Juan, PR – The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) hosted its
93rd annual convention and expo at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan,
Puerto Rico, bringing together 15,000 leaders from various sectors to discuss
policy issues impacting the Hispanic community, affirm shared values, and commit
to concerted actions at the local and national levels. Education and questions of
equity, equality and social justice were at the forefront of today’s discussions.

“The single issue impacting the largest number of Latinos in this country is
education. Since LULAC’s earliest years, education has been at the forefront of
our civil rights campaigns and battles and continues to be. Our children and
youth deserve safe schools in decent accommodations, so they can learn and reach
their potential,” said Domingo Garcia, LULAC National President.

LULAC was honored to have as a keynote speaker the Secretary of Education Miguel
Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican descent and shared his family’s history and his
thoughts on the state of education in the Hispanic community.

“Today I call for a renewed focus on the issues that matter to us, but also that
matter to the family that just got here from their homeland for a better life.
That’s why we must fight for equitable education and access to college,” said
Miguel Cardona, US Secretary of Education. “Let’s recommit our energy to
aggressively and unapologetically ensuring that we are closing opportunity and
achievement gaps by demanding that American Rescue Plan dollars are going towards
those in greatest need. We also need to push for a greater return on investment
and affordability for our colleges and universities, which still seem so out of
reach for too many of our first-generation college students,” said Cardona.

Today’s theme on LULAC’s National Stage was the State of Education in America,
and LULAC was honored to have Eliezer Ramos Parés, Secretary of Education of
Puerto Rico, and Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
President, speak as well.

AFT, the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (AMPR) and LULAC partnered with a
coalition to donate 10,000 children’s books and backpacks to students across the
island as part of the Reading Opens the World [ [link removed]. ]
literacy campaign. Thousands of students have descended on the San Juan
Convention Center for the book distribution and read-alouds thanks to the
Transportation Institute, U.S. shipping company Crowley, the Seafarers
International Union, and local ground transportation companies, which donated
their expertise and services.

“While some politicians ban books and censor curriculum, we are promoting
literacy and sparking the joy of reading through our Reading Opens the World
campaign. Every child must have the opportunity to recover and thrive and reading
is a foundational skill necessary for virtually everything we learn and do—and
reading well is an essential pathway to opportunity,” said Randi Weingarten,
President of the American Federation of Teachers. “As part of our campaign to
give 1 million books to kids, this week, in a joint effort with LULAC we have
distributed over 10,000 books to children throughout Puerto Rico. Kids long for
something that’s theirs—to explore faraway places or learn about a great leader
that looks like them and these books are fulfilling that dream.”

“LULAC’s founders understood that education is a civil and human right, and it
was so important it was even included in the LULAC Constitution,” said Sindy
Benavides, LULAC CEO. “LULAC will continue to work for equity, equality, and
social justice when it comes to education because it’s our legacy and our
responsibility to fight for quality education and safe schools – for the
children, teachers, administrators and school staff at schools every day, and for
all future generations.”


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