What is the future of your business?

Will your business have the skilled workers it needs to compete in the global economy?

Are our schools giving students the training they need to have a successful career?

To fill the gaps left by education, to assist Latino parents on how to advocate for their children and to spark the importance of education in Latino neighborhoods, the Latino Educational Attainment initiative is working to unify the community, students and parents to produce a highly skilled workforce for the future.

The project’s long-term goal is to create neighborhood-based groups that will provide navigational skills to parents in all of the areas around the 100 low-performing schools in the county.

Read parent testimonials about LEA and its impact on OC neighborhoods, or view survey results displaying the impact LEA is having here.  Please also read LEA's profile in the Orange County Register.

Are you a parent already participating in LEA?  Please download the parent survey in English or Spanish. 

Below, see Dr. Juan Carlos Araque discuss LEA on TIme Warner's Local Edition

Funding Partners
Orange County Business Council; Orange County Department of Education; Orange County United Way; Santa Ana Partnership for Education; Orange County Register/Excélsior; Crevier BMW; State Farm; Los Kitos, LLC

Community Partners
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Orange County; FaCT, Garden Grove Unifed School District, Girls Inc., KidsWorks

Latino Educational Attainment Accomplishments

• Created and printed 30,000 copies of the Ten Education Commandments for Parents Comic Book in English and Spanish.
  
  
• Received inquiries from over 30 school districts across California, requesting copies of the “Ten Education Commandments for Parents” Facilitator’s Guide.
  
  
• Trained over 4,000 parents on the “Ten Education Commandments for Parents” program.
  
  
• Coordinated the expansion to 14 parent coalitions in the following cities: Fullerton, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, San Juan Capistrano, Westminster, and Garden Grove.
  
  
• Received a grant donation from the Santa Ana Empowerment Zone for $100,000.
  
  
• Wrote the ten-week article series on the "Ten Commandments Education for Parents," published by the Orange County Register/Excélsior (Jan 10 – Mar 17, 2006).
  
  
• Participated with the White House Initiative on improving education achievement among Hispanic Students.
  
  
• Highlighted LEA as a promising practice program at the Orange County State of Education Forum.
  
  
• Received the support and cooperation of the Santa Ana Unified School District to train every school Principal on the “Ten Commandments.