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I didn't notice this until recently but EKC is the latest KC publication to take on KCMO School Board President David Smith with a really good editorial that features some great info and quotes:

The Hispanic community as a whole has become disenchanted with their public school system over the past few years. Initiatives to start their own school at the Guadalupe Center and bring into the area private charter schools geared toward the challenges faced by Hispanic students is most evident of that.

While leaders in the Hispanic community in Missouri realize that it is up to them to step up to the plate to run for board positions, most feel the Hispanic population has become so disenfranchised from the system; they are tired of trying to bring themselves into the fold.

“There has not been good relationships with the superintendents, they just haven’t been responsive to the (Hispanic) community,” said Bernardo Ramirez, associate director of Guadalupe Centers, Inc.,