Hispanic graduation rates signify looming troubles

  In the United States, Hispanic students are almost twice as likely to drop out of high school as their peers. Locally in Arizona, where a growing Hispanic citizenry is already a sizeable chunk of the population, the trend in academic underachievement within the demographic is especially troubling. In Tucson, one student who refuses to become…

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Student homelessness continuing to worsen in AZ

It was somewhere between leaving her mother’s Arizona house and walking toward the bus stop that the frightening reality sank in: Amber Hough was now homeless. Hough’s PTSD and autism were causing “too much drama” for her mother and siblings. The arguments were getting louder, and the crying all the more common. Finally, Hough said,…

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