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Conversation with Jorge Pacheco Jr.

Posted on August 26, 2022 by isajubes in Politics, History, Opinion and related, Radio Show "Atenea Americana", SHOW ENG // 0 Comments

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Today, we are talking with Jorge Pacheco Jr. He is a national award-winning teacher appointed by the California State Board of Education to help the California Department of Education create Ethnic Studies curricula for the state in 2019.

Jorge, who is proudly indigenous, has been an elementary and middle school Native Studies and Spanish teacher in the Bay Area since graduating from UC Berkeley in 2013. In his role as an advocate for equity and public education, he is now working to close the digital divide for Santa Clara County as a Digital Equity Specialist for Community Health Partnership. Jorge currently serves as President for both the Oak Grove School District of Education as well as the California Latino School Board Association or CLSBA, where he leads an organization that represents and fights for Latino students and school board members across the state.

The CLSBA is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that Latino/a/x students have the best educational opportunities and resources available to succeed. We are committed to meeting the educational needs of all Latino/a/x students by working with educational organizations and empowering current and future Latino/a/x School board members. Together, we will positively change and improve the educational outcomes for Latino/a/x students in California.

Every year the CLSBA organizes a conference providing attendees with dynamic and inspirational keynote speakers, evidence-based workshops, important policy conversations, public education data, research, and powerful networking of public education leaders and advocates. More than 350 school board members, superintendents, district administrators, and other educational leaders gather each year to learn, network, and support each other.

Today he is talking with us about his life, his path through public education in California, the importance of representation, the CLSBA, its annual conference, and his vision for the future of education.

We hope that you can enjoy the show.

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