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Brian Uribe
Professor Bieber
English 115 Honors
3 November 2015
Media to Address Dropout Crisis
In the article, "ITVS Announces Production of American Graduate Latino
Programming to Address Latino High School Dropout Crisis.", the
Independent Television Service, leading funder of independent public
television production, discusses the Latino high school dropout rates and how
it is launching the American Graduate Latino, a public service broadcast
channel, in an attempt to identify and implement solutions for the crisis. ITVS
gathered statistics on the percentage of adults who do not have a high
school diploma and found that 41% of Latinos had not received a diploma,
almost double that of African Americans and four times that of Caucasians.
The CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasts, Patricia Harrison, approved
of the initiative as she understands one million youths drop out of high
school every year and that ITVS is capable of engaging people of influence to
help students stay in school. ITVS president and CEO, Sally Jo Fifer, believes
that society must work together to unravel a problem deeply affecting the
Latino community to help preserve democracy and Latino culture. The
initiative has a lauded award-winning director, Bernardo Ruiz, directing
documentaries to further the content and directly affect the audience in the
endeavor of spreading awareness of the issue in education. ITVS hopes to
bring the community together and help young Latinos receive an education
and better society.

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Work Cited
"ITVS Announces Production of American Graduate Latino Programming to
Address Latino
Web. 3 Nov. 2015.

High School Dropout Crisis." Internet Wire, 2012.