Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the Indiana Republican Party Spring Dinner Thursday, April 21, 2016, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

The nation’s largest Hispanic business group is diving into the presidential campaign for the first time — and is skipping over the only Latino still running.

The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce plans to formally endorse former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, R, for president on Thursday, a shot in the arm for both campaigns at critical moments for each bid.

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Three groups came together Saturday to revise a voter-literacy presentation that could mobilize minority populations in Bloomington and Monroe County.

The goal is to bring together members of three under-represented but large voting demographics — women, Hispanic and African-American citizens — to increase voter mobility, City of Bloomington liaison Araceli Gomez said.

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Indiana Latino voters also break in Sanders’ favor significantly, according to the Fox News poll. After Clinton won the Latino vote in New York last Tuesday, as well as in Florida and Texas, Sanders, who won that demographic in both Nevada and Illinois, holds a 19-point lead among Indiana Latino voters.
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INDIANAPOLIS — At Eagle Creek Elementary School, the student body is diverse. Three of every four students are students of color. Over half of the school’s 520 students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Sixteen different languages are spoken in the students’ homes.

But for teachers at the school in northwest Indianapolis, it’s a different story.

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Three million school children in the U.S. are identified as gifted. That’s roughly the top 10 percent of the nation’s highest achieving students.

But Rene Islas, head of the National Association for Gifted Children, says tens of thousands of gifted English language learners are never identified. We sat down with Islas and asked him why.

He started out by explaining that there are several different measures for identifying gifted children. The most common in schools is recognizing achievement, above grade level work. But that poses a problem for English language learners, or ELLs, he says.

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Elkhart and Goshen have booming Latino populations.

That’s no secret to anyone who’s lived here for even a brief amount of time. You see it in the commercial signage along major streets, in schools, in churches, in supermarkets.

We’re working on a series of stories looking at the growth here and, more particularly, how the Latino population and the broader Elkhart County community have and haven’t adjusted to each other. Meantime, below are some stats I’ve pulled from the U.S. Census Bureau.

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More than 15 people convened outside the department at 11033 W. 93rd Ave. to protest alleged comments made by a St. John police officer. The officer was suspended with pay in December when complaints — documentation of which hasn’t been independently verified — surfaced.

“We are here to denounce a pattern of racial profiling,” said Julie Contreras, immigration chair for the League of United Latin American Citizens.

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