El Mensajero (English)

ROCHESTER -- In spite of protests from community members, the Rochester City School District's board of education adopted a revised plan for a new alternative high school.

ROCHESTER -- The picture for Latino boys in America appears bleak -- more of them in the prisons of several states than in those states' colleges or universities, many entrenched in gang life or forced to drop out of school to support their families.

ROCHESTER -- Xochilth Cosme never expected to attend college.

A native of Mexico, she moved to the United States with her mother when she was 11. When she was accepted to the Young Women's Leadership School in New York City's East Harlem as a ninth-grader, Cosme could not even speak English fluently.

ROCHESTER -- When Hilda Rosario Escher heard about the parent engagement program offered by the National Council of La Raza during the organization's annual conference last summer, she knew it could make a difference in Rochester.

ROCHESTER -- Tommie Banks knows he wants to study architecture at Syracuse University. His inspiration: Las Vegas.

ROCHESTER -- The call for parent involvement in the education of city students is getting a little louder.

BRIGHTON -- Raheem Dehaney returns to The Harley School every summer to volunteer with the Horizons summer enrichment program.