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    In the race to help Latino students, one California county pulls ahead

    Dec 13, 2017 5 minutes
    Catalina Cifuentes, director of the Riverside County Education Collaborative, reflects on the challenges of using data in the county's work to improve student success. "The difficult piece was getting comfortable with the data, when ... we didn't get the gains we expected," she says.

    High school senior Raymond Franco made three mistakes on his college application.

    They were little things, like putting “2017” instead of “2018” as his graduation year. They probably wouldn’t have made a dent in his chances at getting into his schools of choice – the 17-year-old takes three advanced placement classes and trains with three different sports teams.

    Then again, Mr. Franco says, maybe they would have. “If you mess up on one thing, it can mess up your whole application,” he says.

    Which is why he was thankful that Rancho Verde High School devoted several class periods this fall to helping students fill out college and financial aid applications. Faculty and counselors were present to answer questions, explain requirements, and – as in Franco’s case – spot

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