The key message though is the fact that we as Hispanics have the lowest education attainment levels of any group in the United States. "We talked to a group of parents and teachers in order to gauge their feelings on key issues as well as to allow them to see how they can afford high quality early learning opportunities and college for their children," stated Marco Davis who is charged with carrying out President Obama's efforts to increase opportunities and improve outcomes in education for Hispanics, "Our focus is on a need to find solutions on a way to keep the costs of a quality education down." Davis said their mission is to recruit more Latinos into the ranks of college education, increasing college access and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education, parental involvement and higher education.

Alejandra Ceja is from California and she was gracious enough to inform The News Gram of the benefits of these sessions, "This is a tremendous opportunity to take this feedback back to Washington," stated the daughter of an immigrant butcher from Mexico whose mother stayed at home to care for her and her siblings in order for them to have what they needed to succeed in this country. Ceja added that never in her wildest dreams did she ever think she would be working side by side with Barack Obama in the White House, a true example of the American Dream. Pasedena High's Jacqueline Cortez-Wang informed us that they have been to Laredo, Edinburgh, McAllen and would be in El Paso on Friday before heading back to Washington. Several questions were posed by the gathering at Eagle Pass High school by teachers, Captain Alexander Shockey of the Texas 92nd Air Force Junior ROTC posed an interesting point in reference to their development of future leaders and citizens not necessarily military men and women and City Councilman Luis Sifuentes posed an interesting comment on his opinion on the voucher system. Local reporters were also on hand to extract the opinion of the panel in reference to educational opportunities for children from the colonias as well as a question in reference to budget cuts in relation to higher national education standards that got a rousing response from Davis.