For 15 years, Martin Plascencia reported out of Telemundo's Orange County news bureau. Now he's heading the O.C. Clerk-Recorder's office outreach efforts in Latino communities.
The Capistrano Unified School District is seeing a continual decline in student enrollment numbers in recent years, which educators said is the result of a variety of factors including an aging residential population and upheavals from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Martin Plascencia. Photo courtesy of the County of Orange.
“The pandemic has only deepened language access issues,” said Chairman Andrew Do, who authored the County’s Language Access Policy last April. “Now more than ever, we must reach every community and neighborhood in Orange County.”
Nearly half of Orange County adults (46 percent) speak a language other than English at home, according to the 2019-2020 Orange County Community Indicators Report, with a quarter of the overall population native Spanish speakers.
In an effort to directly reach our Spanish-speaking communities, the County brought on board a prominent figure in the Latino community.