$83 million for High Schools in 2010 Means Fewer Kids Failing and in Trouble Today

Fitzgerald High is one of 28 struggling schools across Michigan that shared in $83 million in federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) in 2010. Fitzgerald High spent part of its $1-million grant to create a corrective reading class for students such as Kyeana who have trouble decoding words.

Kyeana, 16, has gone from the student who wanted to cry if a teacher asked her to read aloud to one who twice on a recent morning raised her hand to volunteer to read.

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10 Facts You Need to Know About Immigrant Women:They Contribute More than You Realize and Face Dangers You May Be Unaware Of

By Angela Maria Kelley, Philip E. Wolgin

The everyday portrayal of today’s immigrants generally features a single Hispanic male who is here illegally. In fact, immigrant women in the United States (documented and undocumented combined) comprise more than half of all immigrants and play a significant economic and integrative role in our society and economy. These women start businesses at higher rates than American-born women and are often the ones that push hardest in their families to become American citizens.

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