Does any one know of special grants for enrolled teacher candidates in California?

What do u think a collaboration between the Mexican government and the UC system push Latinos toward college?

• On the first day of the semester, Sylmar High math teacher Cesar Fuentes wasted no time: "Ven, tomen una computadora," he said. "Go grab a laptop." In minutes, the students flipped open the Apple computers, the lights went down and, like a digital textbook, the geometry curriculum popped onto the white board — every word written in Spanish. At Sylmar and three other high schools in Southern California, instructors are running some of the state's only rigorous bilingual math and science classes using online curriculum from Mexico. The idea: to get more Latino students to take and pass the courses they need to go to college. "These are the kids that can do it if we just offer them something," said Patricia Gandara, a professor of education at UCLA. Bilingual classrooms are rare in California. A voter-approved measure on bilingual education, Proposition 227, requires classes to be taught exclusively in English. But several provisions within the law, including one for older children, allow instruction in a student's primary language. Still, only about 1% of high school students received primary-language instruction last school year, according to the state Department of Education. Project SOL (Secondary Online Learning) is a collaborative effort between Gandara, the University of California system and the Mexican Colegio de Bachilleres, which developed the digital math and science curriculum. The program began at four high schools in 2008 with $1.2 million in grants. Besides Sylmar, the other schools involved are Franklin in East Los Angeles, Brawley Union in Imperial County and Chula Vista in San Diego County. So far, nearly 500 students have enrolled in at least one of seven bilingual courses. The program accounts for about 18% of all high school students in the state learning in a primary language. Though more than half of California's schoolchildren are Latino, Gandara said research shows that only about 13% of them nationwide will earn a bachelor's degree. "We want to be the same as the other students," said Sylmar senior Karla Ibarra, 18. "Even better than the other students — to show them that we can do it." Researchers say rigorous math and science courses are seldom available to students learning English, even though such courses are required for admission to four-year universities. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bilingual-20120129,0,3710148.story Yesterday supporters said Mexico was so poor, all its poor endure starvation and how does Mexico have money to spend on illegals here, but Mexico cannot buy their starving people a can of beans and some taco's , they allow them to starve this is what supporters said, not me.

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  its a lie in mexico the people don't dies of hunger, its true in this moment 1 community of native have hunger because last year it rained. but it is only a small community. please do not believe everything the TV says. Im Mexican i live in mexico and never seen anyone die of hunger. I am bilingual and always went to public schools