Title: Behind the Latino college degree gap - The Hechinger Report
Headings: Behind the Latino college degree gap
Behind the Latino college degree gap
Latinos are the least likely ethnic or racial group to get a college education, new report says
Jill Barshay

Content: By comparison, more than 30 percent of black American adults had a college degree, and nearly half, or 47.1 percent of white adults did. That’s nearly a 25 percentage point gap in college attainment between Latinos and whites. Latino education varies a lot from state to state. In Florida, a third of Latino adults hold a college degree. The number of Latinos with college degrees is rapidly growing in Florida and the Latino-white gap is one of the smallest at 10 percentage points. However, Florida has large Cuban and Puerto Rican populations, many of whom come from well-educated families. Roughly 40 percent of Cuban Americans and 30 percent of Puerto Ricans have college degrees. By contrast, only 17 percent of Mexican Americans have college degrees, with many Mexicans emigrating from poor, uneducated regions in Mexico. Florida’s success with Latino higher education may have more to do with the particular Latinos who live in Florida than with how the state supports Latino students academically or financially. New York’s statistics are also confounding.