Distressing news about Latinos and higher education

Simply put, not many of them are making it. New study finds that only 57 percent of California's Latino students graduated from high school in 2009, and of those just 16 percent met the necessary course requirements for advancing to the state's four-year colleges. All told, according to an organization called the Campaign for College Opportunity, just 7 percent of California's Latinos 25 years or older have a baccalaureate degree, compared with 30 percent of all Californians. "We need state policymakers and colleges to focus budget and policy priorities on significantly increasing the number of Latinos who go to college and succeed," says Michele Siqueiros, the campaign's executive director.

One more bit of distressing news. After Capitol Alert ran a story on the study, its comments section was closed due to hate speech.