ANDY CANALES

While both my parents, immigrants from El Salvador, provided me with the best they could, opportunities in the inner-city were limited. 

Fortunately, with the help of my parents, teachers, hard work, and some luck along the way, I was able to become the first one in my family to graduate from college. 

Education changed my life, and I want other children growing up in the same shoes I was once in to access this life-changing opportunity as well.

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I’m passionate about data because of its potential to shine a light on the inequities I experienced firsthand and because of its ability to begin a conversation about solutions for kids facing similar challenges to those I had to overcome. While data may not tell the whole story about a school, it helps depict a snapshot of the conditions and outcomes children experience every day. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released their 2019 A-F ratings assigning most schools in Texas with a letter grade. There’s much we can begin to learn from this publicly available information.

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