The Latinx Education Collaborative was selected by Guadalupe Centers High School students as a client for a design thinking project program, part of the school’s new Impact Academy. Students have community organizations pose a problem that they work to solve over on trimester. 3 students chose this problem as their project: How might we gather & validate data about why Latino students are not choosing education programs?  


The mission of Latinx Education Collaborative (LEC) is to retain and increase the representation of Latinx education professionals in K-12. In Kansas City, the representation of teachers of color is not close to matching the percentage of students of color in our schools.  The LEC has asked GCHS students to help gather data about why students are not choosing to be educators, identify trends in this data, and make recommendations that can improve education programming so education careers are more desirable.

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Latinx Education Collaborative announces 2020 Latinx Educator Award Winners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kansas City, MO – The Latinx Education Collaborative (LEC) is pleased to announce the award winners of the 2020 Latinx Educator Awards: Aspiring Educator of the Year

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Connecting KC: Palacios works to give Latino students classroom role models

By Brian Kaberline  – Editor, Kansas City Business Journal, March 24, 2020 “I was born in Miami where being Latino is super amazing. I got to speak Spanish everywhere. I got to interact

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UMKC Position Announcement(s)

UMKC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT(S) 1. Student Financial Aid Coordinator (Job ID 29787) Financial Aid Office. Application deadline: April 28, 2019. 2. Central Sterilization Assistant (Job ID 29823) School of Dentistry. Application

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