Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.