Colorado Educators, Activists Lobby For Hispanic Studies

DENVER (AP) – When a Colorado teacher got her English language students talking and writing about the police shooting of a black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, she was able to draw parallels to events close to home. Cara Luchies, who works in a high school that is 50-percent Hispanic, used an archive on the region’s Latino history for information on two young Mexican-Americans who were killed by law enforcement in Longmont in 1980.
Luchies is among educators and activists across the cou