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Year-round Schools Don’t Boost Learning, Study Finds
Science Daily (press release) - USA

A sociologist at Ohio State University found that, over a full year, math and reading test scores improved about the same amount for children in year-round schools as they did for students whose schools followed a traditional nine-month calendar.
Children attending year-round schools were mostly Hispanic and tended to be somewhat poorer than average, but their poverty was moderate rather than severe. Year-round schools also tended to have problems with overcrowding.

Hispanic numbers grow in southeast Ohio
Zanesville Times Recorder - Zanesville,OH,USA

While their overall numbers remain small — less than 1 percent of the total population– there has been an explosion of growth in the number of Hispanics in southeastern Ohio. The Hispanic population in Muskingum County has grown 15.4 percent since the 2000 Census. The increase in Perry County is 27.6 percent.

(My brother was born in Muskingum County in 1983, my sister was born in Perry County in 1982.
My mom ran into the doctor who delivered my sister and he remembered my mother because he hadn’t ever had a latino patient before or heard of a latina patient given birth in the area. He said he went 10 years after my sister’s birth before he had another Latina patient)

Fulton County clinic assists working poor
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA

A couple of more free clinics are being considered for Defiance, including one aimed at the Hispanic population, and the trend is likely to continue…

Racial makeup changes in Ohio
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA

The non-Hispanic white population was down in 43 counties a statewide decrease of 47,256 since 2000.
Across Ohio, the number of Hispanic residents grew by 50,627 up 23 percent since 2000.
Rural Wayne County saw the fastest Hispanic growth in the area a 40 percent increase since 2000.

Ummmm anyone wanna tell the Akron Beacon Journal that “hispanic” is an ethnicity not a race?
I am going to have me some babies, and they are going to be White-Blatinos…go ahead and figure that one out.
Also, I wonder what is going on Wayne county if it is really a change or if things are just now being documented. I worked as a union organizer for farm labor in Wayne County and during the summers it was quite easy to come across migrant camps with a few hundered workers, and those were just the ones that were unionized…

County population declines 3 percent
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA

Hamilton County’s total population dropped 3 percent in the past six years while its Hispanic community climbed 40 percent, according to US Census Bureau …

What POC would want to live in Cincinnati?


Banking on a change
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA

Banks are busy translating brochures into Spanish and working with community groups to draw members of central Ohio’s fast-growing Latino population into the financial mainstream.

Hire me, I’ll show you how to recruit and get people to stick with it. For example, if you explain to them the importance/requirements of having a debit/credit card to get cars back across the border when returning to Mexico, then they will be interested, you’ve got to convince people why they need it, and trust me they do—they just don’t know it.