After arriving in the U.S. from the Philippines nearly 60 years ago, Virginia Navarro continues to inspire her community.

There are now something like 1,200 American teachers in the islands ... to import Chinese coolies to do the work that the Filipino does half as well and demands twice the pay for as the Chinaman.

Then they met Lourdes Navarro, a Filipino-American whose company, Universal Placement International, advertised high-quality teachers from the Philippines. Navarro flew school administrators to ...

Through elementary and middle school, she had teachers from diverse backgrounds - but none who identified as Asian American or Pacific Islander. And as a result, Kraft, who is Filipino American ...

Nearly 1 in 5 NYC students are Asian American. Just 8% of teachers are. For her first few years in New York City’s public school system, Kai Kraft thought she was “the only Asian kid in the ...