On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

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"They don't want their kids selling tamales. They want college." — Rev. Alice Callaghan, Jardin de la Infancia

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First-grade teacher Elizabeth Chavez at the whiteboard with Leslie Alvarez in the all-English class.

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Salinas has big plans — to study to be a doctor or teacher at USC. But he knows he can't accomplish this without a quality education. "I need a good school," Salinas says, "where I'm learning something every day."

Callaghan, who stands only a few feet away, smiles at what she hears. "Our experience is that when our children are offered the same education as their affluent peers, they can achieve in school," she says. "The real hope for the Latino community, and anyone in this country, is a good education."