Hispanic graduation rate not keeping up with increases in labor force

One in three entrants into the U.S. labor force is Hispanic. 

By 2025, that ration will jump to one-in-two. 

Yet the high school dropout rate is more than three times the comparable rate for non-Hispanic students, and Latinos have made virtually no progress in the level of college completion in the last 30 years.

On Friday, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute will launch a national dialogue on this issue through a series of education policy forums intended to bring together leading education experts, advocates, elected leaders and others to examine the unique education challenges facing young Latinos, define the barriers to higher education attainment, and identify best practices for addressing these to help reach President Obama's national goal of 60 percent college attainment rate by 2025.

This initiative is in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Excelencia in Education, the Lumina Foundation, NALEO, and Univision.

For more information, visit the "Keeping the Promise" website.