Abogados de Inmigracion

Having a good business plan and a good grant writer are important aspects of helping the community. Everyone who participated has had experience in helping people and communities. They have to get the word out to others, share their experiences, and network in an unselfish manner to help others help people. We cannot continue to move at the same pace to eradicate poverty and the problems that afflict others and their families. GED! GED! GED! Each person living in poverty needs this diploma and now. New York’s GED’s are below the national average and poverty is above the national average. Shrink poverty through the GED. All of the social agencies in counties can do much more to help people, marching and mobilizing the people they serve toward the GED.

I had the opportunity to speak to Steve Levy again. I first met him when he was a candidate for County Executive in a van with the current President of the New York State United Teacher’s Association, Richard Iannuzzi, while we drove to the Central American Parade in Suffolk County. Things were different on this occasion. I know that I have to network with the County Executive and his staff. I had already been offered the use of a conference room by Ed Perez, but my Roundtable at the Consulate of El Salvador was in place and the Consulate richly deserved to be the location of the first GED Roundtable of Long Island. My business card proudly expresses the importance of the Salvadoran community in my international and revolutionary educational campaign since the colors are the colors of the Salvadoran flag. Steve Levy made me proud of him by saying “I will be there” (at the next GED Roundtable). I made him aware of the fact that the graduation rate from Long Island’s high schools is declining at a time when New York is below the national average in obtaining a GED. This makes New Yorkers less competitive.

America’s economic stability keeps us strong. The GED has played a critical role in moving around nineteen million forward in their education and most of those people have taken advantage of the GED to go on to higher education and/or a better life. I know that some members of the faith based community who were present obtained their GED in jail before turning to Jesus. They are great examples of the progress men and women can make anytime that they make a decision to change. And their stories can be told millions of times over. The very same thing will happen to millions of undocumented immigrants who are held back by their status. I do want Steve Levy to know that the American Council on Education will be appointing a diversity officer (and diversity was one of the themes of this conference) and that undocumented immigrants, by a federal mandate, will be encouraged to complete the GED in one of the three official languages (English, Spanish, and English) or in any combination of two of those languages in the State of Colorado. We look forward to Steve Levy’s support. His commitment to the education of all residents, legal and undocumented, will make us all stronger.

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