The Latino Community Foundation and the San Francisco Unified School District invite you to join them and the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, for a San Francisco Bay Area Latino Leaders Conversation on “Winning the Future: President Obama’s Agenda and the Hispanic Community,” on Thursday, June 9, 2011.
In his State of the Union, President Obama made it clear that the most important contest this country faces today is not between Democrats and Republicans, but with competitors around the world for the jobs and industries of our time. To win that contest and secure prosperity for all Americans, we must out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. The Latino community plays an integral part of that plan to win the future.
We can win the future through innovation: creating the jobs and industries of the future by doing what America does best – investing in the creativity and imagination of the American people. We must win the race to educate our kids in order to meet the demand over the next five years when nearly 90 percent of new jobs will require more than a high school degree. We must rebuild America, attracting new businesses to our shores by having the fastest and most reliable ways to move people, goods, and information – from roads and airports to high-speed rail and Internet.
In the last two years since taking office, the President and his Administration have worked to lay the groundwork for America to win the future, stopping the freefall of the economy and beginning to set the foundation for growth and prosperity. Every issue has been of vital importance to the Latino community, from promoting job creation and ensuring that every American has access to quality healthcare, to implementing reforms that strengthen education for all students, and fighting for comprehensive immigration reform while standing up for the civil rights of all Americans.
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics has been working with Latino leaders to help develop public-private partnerships aimed at community education reform initiatives that increase Hispanic education attainment levels, thereby contributing to President Obama’s 2020 goal of once again being number one in the world in the percentage of our population having a college degree. They cannot achieve this goal without significantly strengthening and expanding education opportunities for all Latino students, from cradle to career.
Please join us as we discuss the Obama Administration’s strategies to increase Latino students’ access to a quality education and improve their rates of education attainment to keep the U.S. competitive in a global economy.
Please join your fellow Bay Area Latino leaders for a conversation on what the Obama Administration is doing to help Latinos win the future. The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics wants to hear how, by working together, we can solve the toughest challenges facing the Hispanic community.