Identity parents train as community outreach workers to connect hungry neighbors to food. Identity has entered into two new collaborations to fight hunger while empowering community members with new outreach skills and meaningful work [...]
On January 13, students in Identity's youth advocacy program, PODER (People Organizing, Determined, Empowered, and Ready) - the Spanish word for 'power' - traveled to Annapolis to learn the history of the Annapolis State House [...]
The Black and Brown Coalition for Educational Equity and Excellence, founded in part by Identity, was labeled as "perhaps the most promising recent development" in Montgomery County's focus on equity in a recent Opinion piece from [...]
They cite a recent study showing that students of color, particularly those from low-income families, are more likely to be taught by novice teachers in Montgomery County and that schools with more children from low-income families are more [...]
The article by education reporter Donna St. George describes MCPS’ new accountability report cards that track achievement gaps school by school between white students and their classmates of color. St. George quotes Identity’s joint letter to [...]
A new report by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health found that Latino youth in Montgomery County express high academic motivation, high academic expectations, and a positive outlook for the future, [...]
Identity is pleased to be a co-sponsor of a Board of Education Candidates Forum on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 pm at the MCPS Board of Education, 850 Hungerford Drive in Rockville, Carver Auditorium. As the [...]
WE CANNOT BE SILENT. STOP THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S CRUELTY AND ASSAULT ON MIGRANTS, ASYLUM SEEKERS, DREAMERS. Share this information. Print it out. Spread it on social media. Talk about it with neighbors and co-workers. Make noise. Call the White House: 202-456-1111 or email via https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Tell President Trump [...]
The impact of recent changes and threatened changes to immigration policies on members of the Latino community have been devastating, on our young clients, their family, our neighbors and co-workers. Now is the time to urge Congress to defend [...]
When President Trump announced on January 8th that the administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadorans, the news ripped through the Identity community, as more parents come from El Salvador than any other country [...]
