Valley Interfaith and School Reform: Organizing for Power in South Texas

INDEX

INDEX Academic Achievement, , , –, –, , , , – ACT (Allied Communities of Tarrant),  ACTION, – ACTWU (Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union), ,  Aguilar, Eloy,  Alamo Middle School, xx, xxii academic achievement and,  Alliance School partnership and, –, ,  block scheduling and,  discipline and, ,  parents and, – peer mediation and, – reorganization and, , – school board and, – TAAS and, –,  teacher teams and, – Valley Interfaith and, –, , , –,  Alinsky, Saul, , ,  Alliance Schools, xxi, , , , , ,  Alamo Middle School, – boundary between church and state and,  McAllen and, , – Palmer Elementary School and, ,  political agendas of,  Rio Grande Valley and, –, ,  Sam Houston Elementary School and,  secondary schools and,  Allied Communities of Tarrant,  Alvarado, Ernesto,  Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union, ,  Anaya, Carmen, –, , , , , , ,  Anaya, José, , ,  Berta Casava Middle School,  Brand, Othal, xxii, –, ,  Bush, George W.,  Casas, Leticia, , –, ,  Castillo, Yolanda, , –,  Catholic Church, xviii,  Archbishop Robert Lucey and,  Ernesto Cortés and,  Mexican Americans and, , – Mexican American women and, – Rio Grande Valley and,  theology and,  United Farm Workers and,  Ceasar, Pearl, ix, , ,  Chambers, Ed,  Chapa, Joe,  civic engagement, xii–xv, –, –, , , , , , , , – Cochran-Smith, Marilyn,  Coleman, James, xv–xvii Communities Organized for Public Services, , , , , ,  Comunidades de base, –, – Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos,  COPS. See Communities Organized for Public Services Cortés, Ernesto, –, –, , , ,  Cortez, David, ,  Diaz, Pete, Jr.,  Drake, Jim, –, , ,  El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization,  Enríquez, Evangelina,  Federal Emergency Management Agency,  Fitzpatrick, John Joseph, , , ,  Flaat, Father Bart, –, , –,  Flores, Patrick,  Flores, Salvador, –, , , , , , ,  Frank, Jerry,  Fuentes, Christina,  Garza, Diana, – GI Forum, ,  Giroux, Henry,  Gomez, David,  Gonzalez, Lucia,  Greeley, Andrew, xv Greenberg, James,  Gutierrez, José Angel, – Guzman, Raquel, , – Haney, Walter, xiv Hernandez, Irma,  Hernandez, Maria,  Herrera, Monserrat,  Hinojosa, Diane, ,  Hinojosa, Eusebia – Hobby, Bill, xxii, ,  Hondagenu-Sotelo, Pierette,  Hutchison, Kay Bailey,  IAF. See Industrial Areas Foundation Immigration and Naturalization Service,  Indocumentados, , ,  Industrial Areas Foundation, –, , , , , –, ,  house meetings, , ,  internal operations of, – iron rule, – one-on-ones, ,  religious institutions and,  research actions,  Texas Industrial Areas Foundation , xxi,  INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service),        Kozol, Jonathan,  League of United Latin American Citizens, , ,  Levy, Frank,  Limón, José, xxi Lopez, José,  Loury, Glenn, xv Lucey, Robert,  LULAC, , ,  Lytle, Susan,  Maheshwari, Connie, , – , , , , , , –, – Martinez, Robert, ,  MAYO (Mexican American Youth Organization), –,  McAllen, Texas, –, , – Alliance Schools and, – Barrios in, –, –, , –,  Department of Parks and Recreation and,  McCluskey, Tim,  McNeil, Linda,  Meno, Lionel (Skip),  Mexican Americans, , , ,  Catholic church and, – community organizing and, xii, , ,  educational reform and xi, xii immigration and, xi, ,  women, – Mexican American Unity Council ,  Mexican American Youth Organization , –,  Milpas, Las, –, , , –, , , ,  Mindiz-Melton, Alejandro,  Mirandé, Alfredo,  Moll, Luis,  Montalvo, Leo, ,  Montejano, David,  Murnane, Richard,  National Assessment of Educational Progress,  Nayola, Oliver, ,  North American Free Trade Agreement, xix Padilla, Gil,  Palacios, Leo,  Palmer Elementary School, xx, xxii, , –,  academic achievement and,  Alliance School network and, – community engagement and, – demographics of,  dual-language program and, –, – Ernie Cortés and,  history of, – home visits and, – parental engagement and, – Salvador Flores and, –,  social capital and,  TAAS and, –,  Valley Interfaith and, –, ,  Paredes, Américo, xxi Parental engagement, xvi, –, , –, , – academic achievement and,  Parental involvement, xvi, , , ,  Parent-Teacher Organization,  Parra, Javier, , – PASSO (Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations ),    Pauken, Tom, –,  Perot, H. Ross, ,  Pharr, Texas, –, , , – Pharr–San Juan–Alamo High School, –, ,  Independent School District, , –,  Political Association of SpanishSpeaking Organizations,  Portes, Alejandro, xv, xvi Project QUEST,  PSJA. See Pharr–San Juan–Alamo Putnam, Robert, xv Ramirez, René, – Raza Unida, , ,  Reagan, Ronald, – Republican Party,  Research methodology, xxi–xxii Richards, Ann, xxii, , – Rio Grande Valley, xviii–xxii Alliance Schools and, –, ,  Anglo-American settlement of, xvii–xix,  Catholic church and, ,  community organizing and, – economic conditions in, xix, , –, ,  environmental conditions in, xix, , ,  history of,  Mexican American women and,  political conditions in, –, –,  population of,  recent population growth in, xix social conditions in, xx, –, , ,  Valley Interfaith and,  Rivera, Robert,  Rosales, Mary Ann,  Ross, Fred,  Ruiz, Rosi, –, , ,  St. Joseph’s the Worker Catholic Church, xxii, , –, , , –, –, , ,  Salinas, Norberto,  Sam Houston Elementary School, xxi, xxii, –, – academic achievement and,  Alliance School Partnership and, ,  civic education and, – curriculum development and, – Kids Action Assembly and,  Los Encinos and, – parents and, –, –, – social capital and, – South Texas Community College and,  TAAS and, –,  Valley Interfaith and, , – ,  Sanchez, Ermilia,  Sanchez, Maria,  Sarmiento, Susanna, , – Schumacher, Robert, –,  Select Committee on Public Education , ,  Social capital, xiv–xvii, –, – , ,  academic achievement and, xv, xvii bonding social capital, ,  bridging social capital, , –, , , –,  Catholic schools and, xv, xvi functionalism and, xviii       hidden costs of, xvii, , ,  structuralism and, xviii Sosa-Garza, Estela, , , , –, ,  South Texas Community College,  Standardized testing. See Testing Stephens, Sister Christine, ix,  Tenneco Corporation,  Testing, xiii–xiv, , , –, –, –, –,  at Alamo, –,  at Palmer, –,  at Sam Houston, –,  Texas Education Agency, , , , –,  Travis Middle School,  United Farm Workers, –, , , ,  Uribe, Hector,  Valdez, Elisabeth, –, –, ,  Valley...