Program helping Latina girls enters second year

A nonprofit group aims to keep young Latina girls in school and on the right path. About to enter its second year, Circle de Luz selects a group of young Latina women about to begin seventh grade and mentors them through their senior year with the hopes they'll continue on to college. "There's a general stereotyping of Latina girls that doesn't allow for them a lot of possibility and if that's the kind of theme you get from people as you walk through life then you start to believe and buy into it," said creator and former teacher Rosie Molinary. READ FULL STORY
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