Facing a surge of Latino students, Richmond schools struggle to connect. But the system finally may be taking action.
by Tom Nash
In a trailer park off Midlothian Turnpike, the sounds that Huguenot High School junior Omar Zuniga hears — mosquitoes clipping eardrums, a circling ice-cream truck — are the same ones relished by any teenager who dreads those first few days back in school. On this late August night, his focus appears to wander between conversation and those sounds while he sits on a stool next to his parents, a friend, and an interpreter, Dustin King.…[ Read more ]