CHICAGO (WBBM Newsradio 780) -- Hispanic Leadership Institute calls statistics coming out of Chicago about Latino students who drop out of school "alarming."
There is so much concern, says the Hispanic Leadership Institute, because the dropout rate among Latino students in Chicago is about 50 percent now. And it was about 50 percent 20 years ago, says Institute president Juan Andrade.
"What we have been doing is obviously not working. If we have only so many teachers who are Latinos, for example, then we have to set out an initiative nationwide to recruit the kinds of teachers and counselors and administrators that we need in our schools."
In the Chicago Public Schools, 13 percent of the teachers are Latino.
A spokesman for the Chicago Public Schools acknowledges that more Latino teachers are needed, and he says the school system is recruiting more.
Andrade is presiding over the U.S. Hispanic Leadership conference, meeting now in Chicago.
The conference hosted a college recruitment fair for more than 2,400 high school students from the Chicago area with more than 100 colleges represented.
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