America's Economic Future Increasingly Depends on Graduating More Latinos from College

Latinos are the fastest-growing student population in America and a new effort is now focused on leveraging the critical connection between their educational attainment and the future of our national economy. Today, Lumina Foundation launches a collaborative partnership designed to strengthen ventures in key metropolitan areas that show promise in improving the postsecondary attainment of Latino students.

"A country's most precious resource is its human resource. The Latino Student Success partnerships and their supporters will help build the country's capacity to effectively meet the educational needs of the U.S. Latino community, and thus strengthen America's bright future," said Sarita Brown, president of Excelencia in Education. "We look forward to learning from their progress and to helping advance their promising practices."

Watch video on initiative with comment from Sarita Brown at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vardeWy5OxA