These recommendations are found in the National Women's Law Center/Mexican American Legal Defense and Education fund Report:
These recommendations can also help other poverty-level girls of color.
These include:
- Raise college awareness: Talk to students early and often about college choices, and long-and short term aspirations. Expose students to opportunities in post-secondary schooling, field trips, career options, provide role models.
- Make school environments culturally inclusive: Take care to incorporate Latino culture into programming, activities and curricula. Enforce anti-discrimination policies.
- Help Latino parents get more involved with children’s education: Make efforts to communicate in Spanish. Work around poverty-level work-schedules. Make college information available. Follow up with parents by phone, if necessary.
- Take steps to help prevent teenage pregnancy: Within state guidelines, make medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education available in a culturally sensitive manner.
- Help pregnant students stay in school: Enforce Title IX and eliminate discrimination against parenting or pregnant students. To the extent possible: Excuse pregnancy-related absences, allow home-bound instruction, offer parenting classes for mothers and fathers. Encourage pregnant students.
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