ABSTRACT
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many popular publications were forecasting the time as the decade of the Latino in academic, economic, and political settings (Arredondo & Perez, 2003; Garcia-Preto, 1996). This did not occur, however, and Latinos were confronted with additional barriers, especially those who were immigrants. Legislation was imposed against bilingualism and affirmative action. This and other forms of exclusion served to worsen the troubling dropout rate of school-age Latino children at the time.
