La Comadre Tips and Talking Points for Adults & Educators: Post-Presidential Election Results
Many of us are searching for the right words to help our children understand last night’s election results. Luckily forRead More…
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Alma V. Marquez is the founder of LaComadre.org and is the founder and CEO of Del Sol Group, a communications and public affairs firm focusing on Strategy, Outreach and Leadership in Education, Voter and Civic Engagement. She specializes in parent education, politics and community organizing. She is a proud product of California public schools. She is a graduate of Huntington Park High School in Southeast LA. She also completed her all of credit recovery classes at Maxine Waters Occupational Center in Watts in order to graduate from high school. She attended East LA College and transferred to Occidental College where she earned a Bachelor's degree in English and Comparative Literary Students and Politics. She earned a Master of Arts Degree in Urban Planning at UCLA. Her daughter is a junior in a charter school, chartered by LAUSD. She decided to start the LA Comadre blog because she wanted to create a platform for Latinas and education.
Posts by Alma V.:
Today Is International Girls Day and I’m Taking My Latina Daughter to the White House
On International Girls Day, I am in Washington, D.C., with my teen daughter as we’ve been invited to the WhiteRead More…
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Thank You for Having Our Back: A Charter School Mom Speaks Up
In the neighborhood I grew up in, we instinctively looked around to check who ‘had our back,’ who was thereRead More…
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Officers help daughter of late officer celebrate her graduation: Lets think of children who need us during these special events
Graduations can be hard for those students whose parents cannot be with them because of death or other separation. ThisRead More…
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Charter Schools Are A Great Choice for Single Moms
I’ve been a single mom for 15 years. I didn’t plan this. Like other women, when I got married, IRead More…
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Audacity of Nope: You Wanted People of Color Then But Don’t Like Us Now?
Unwelcomed. Uncomfortable. Cowed into silence. These are not the words I’d ever use to describe conservatives, especially those in educationRead More…
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At 14 and 41: My Teacher Is Still My Hero Who Prompted Me to Fight for Students
Mr. Ric Loya, a health teacher at Huntington Park High, was never my “official” teacher but he remains one ofRead More…
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Why Would LAUSD Intentionally Want to Mislead Parents When it Comes to School Choice?
As a graduate of a district school, the mother of a LAUSD-charter school student and a community activist, I can’tRead More…
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LA Students Win California Academic Decathlon: Charter & Traditional Schools in Top 10
Congratulations to LAUSD’s Granada Hills Charter School for winning the California State Academic Decathlon yesterday in Sacramento. Los Angeles studentsRead More…
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Single Gender Public Schools in LAUSD: Let’s Explore That Choice
We are celebrating Women’s History Month in March and yesterday was Women’s International Day, we should use this time toRead More…
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