The Hispanic Education Coalition (HEC) unites 25 organizations dedicated to improving educational opportunities for the nearly 50 million Latinos living in the United States and Puerto Rico. Co-chaired by MALDEF and the Migrant Legal Action Program, the HEC focuses upon federal legislative issues relating to education including the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the Head Start Act, the Higher Education Act, adequate federal funding for education, and the educational concerns of English Language Learners. In each of these areas, the HEC strives to ensure that dialogue at the federal level regarding education issues reflects the education priorities of the Latino community.
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MALDEF STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ROLLBACK OF FEDERAL POLICY GUIDANCE ON CAMPUS DIVERSITY
LOS ANGELES – The federal government announced today that it has rescinded policy guidance issued by the Obama administration to foster diversity in elementary and secondary schools and on college campuses. Please attribute the following statement to Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund):
MALDEF STATEMENT ON U.S. SUPREME COURT’S ANTI-LABOR DECISION
VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE AT NOTORIOUS HUTTO IMMIGRATION CENTER IN TEXAS DEMAND RELEASE OF FEDERAL AUDIT RESULT
San Antonio, TX – Two women who say they were sexually abused by guards while detained at a Texas immigration center today issued a new request to federal authorities demanding an investigation into the mishandling of their cases and release of any probe of the facility, according to civil rights attorneys.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION TO UPHOLD TRUMP’S MUSLIM BAN
MALDEF STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S EFFORTS TO INCREASE DETENTION OF MIGRANT FAMILIES
MALDEF DECRIES ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ TRAVESTY AND SEPARATION OF FAMILIES, CALLS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS TO RESIGN
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), released the following statement today on the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration stance that has led to forced separation of families and horrific accounts of children being taken from their parents:
Everyone Counts – And Everyone Must Be Counted
Through our work on the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations, the California Complete Count Committee, the Illinois Complete Count Committee, and other entities, we’re pushing back on the Trump administration’s efforts to thwart a full and accurate 2020 Census count.