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The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

I go out on publicity tours for my books, and, you know, Latinos, they bring everybody in the family to everything, even little kids. So I always ask the kids, 'Who wants to be the first Latino President?' It used to be no hands went up, or maybe one or two. Now, with Obama, many of the little hands go up. It will happen in my lifetime.

Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many tough problems, and we need everybody's help to solve the problems.

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.