After 9 years...no progress? Why?

Doing further research, I see that President Bush was the first to issue an Executive Order on Excellence in Education for Hispanics.

From: http://www.yic.gov/wwa/index.html

White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
On October 12 2001, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13230, creating the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. In the same executive order, the president designated the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans (WHI) as the office that would provide staff support and assistance to the commission in its charge to examine the underlying causes of the existing education achievement gap between Hispanic American students and their peers.

Over a period of 18 months, the commission heard from over 1,600 parents, students, educators, community and business leaders, and education experts at 11 commission meetings and four unprecedented bilingual town halls. This work resulted in an interim report that was submitted to the president on Sept. 30, 2002. The Road to a College Diploma: The Complex Reality of Raising Educational Achievement for Hispanics in the United States contained the commission's initial findings on the state of Hispanic education in the U.S., and outlined the education issues that required the nation's attention to close the achievement gap.

On March 31, 2003, the commission submitted its final report to the president, From Risk to Opportunity: Fulfilling the Educational Needs of Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century, which contained six recommendations for increasing the educational achievement of Hispanics. These recommendations encompassed the entire education continuum, from early childhood education through postsecondary degree attainment, as well as recommendations to improve federal accountability, coordination and research.

The commission's recommendations became the basis for the WHI undertaking a pilot public-private partnership in July 2003. This yearlong effort teamed the WHI with leading national Hispanic organizations, corporate leaders and national private entities to further public understanding of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) at conferences held in seven cities across the country. Over the course of that year, the WHI met and worked with Hispanic families, organizations and communities to make informed decisions about their children's education. The pilot program fortified the WHI's belief in the necessity of coordinating efforts, fortifying relationships and making optimal use of the resources that stakeholders possess to effectively reach Hispanics.

Building on the lessons learned from the pilot program, the WHI convened a working group in 2004 to develop a new course of action. This called for the formation of a broader public-private partnership that drew on the Hispanic family—and by definition the extended family—as a way to positively influence the educational outcomes of Hispanics in the U.S. and maximize the use of the numerous options and opportunities afforded by NCLB and other education programs.

To that end, in June 2005, the WHI and the U.S. Department of Education hosted a conference in Washington, D.C., "Pathways to Hispanic Family Learning." The conference highlighted private and public efforts to meet the education needs of Hispanic children and youths. It also set the stage for the WHI's Partnership for Hispanic Family Learning, a national network of public and private organizations that provide Hispanic families with the knowledge and tools needed to help them prepare their children for academic success. The partnership, comprised of individuals and organizations from the business, community, faith-based, education and government sectors, focuses on: early childhood development and early reading; parent and family involvement; academic preparation and high school graduation; college enrollment, affordability and completion; adult literacy; and workplace literacy.

In addition, in mid-2007, the WHI convened Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and other important stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities inherent in the American Competitiveness Initiative—an ambitious, long-term strategy to ensure America's continued worldwide leadership in science and technology through math and science education—announced by President Bush in January 2006. Focused on helping HSIs build the capacity needed to increase the number of Hispanic graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields and develop the infrastructure required to undertake innovative research, this gathering at the University of Texas at El Paso helped to strengthen the nation's ability to remain competitive in today's global economy.