A partnership between educators has given high school students the tools to find their voice through writing college essays. Spanish teacher at Marshalltown High School Kristin Stuchis was inspired by Lucía Suárez, the director of Latino/a Studies at Iowa State, to seek a mentorship opportunity for her students. Stuchis is an advisor for a Latina.
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Demonstrators marched to the Iowa State Capitol on Saturday to urge lawmakers for immigration reform. The Immigration Reform Now event welcomed some of the changes President Joe Biden s administration has implemented, but said there is still more to be done.
The people marching to the Capitol interwove Spanish and English as they walked from La Placita on East Grand, but they shout one phrase in unison:
¡Si se puede!
César Chávez, civil rights activist
They’re using the slogan of the United Farm Workers of America, founded by civil rights activist César Chávez, to protest the nation’s current immigration policies.