Minerva Canto is a former editorial writer who covered education, healthcare and other social issues for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the board, she was a freelance reporter and columnist at Capital & Main reporting on the racial and economic forces driving health inequities. Previously, she was a local news columnist and immigration reporter at the Orange County Register, where she received awards for her reporting on victims of violence and reporting in Latin America. She’s also been a reporter at the Associated Press and the Albuquerque Journal. A native of Mexico City, she grew up in Santa Ana and is a graduate of USC and the University of Southern Maine.
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Top colleges are dumping legacy admissions and other policies that favor wealthy and white students. That’s not enough. Educational disparities begin at birth.
The U.S. knows Mexican pharmacies selling fentanyl-laced pills are killing tourists. Why aren’t there more warnings?
Banning books is about restricting ideas. It’s heartening to see some public leaders and others challenge whether these bans are constitutional.
I don’t need to live in Mexico to recognize when a politician in my native country is giving people atole con el dedo, the well-used Mexican phrase that means trying to put one over on people.
Encouraging students to become multilingual is a major goal of U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. What a nice change from the days when kids whose first language was not English were seen as problems.
As parents, we expect that our sons and daughters will be treated equally if they attend a public school. But it’s clear that in many cases, girls’ bodies and clothes are policed more than boys’.
Opponents of affirmative action argue that simply eliminating it will automatically create a level playing field for all students. It won’t.
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