In a Q&A with David Park of Learning Heroes, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez explores the challenges and opportunities facing Latinos and other minority students including the often large gap between a parent’s perception of their child’s educational performance vs the reality, the importance of annual state testing, as well as practical tools parents can access to ensure their child is performing at or above grade level – because as David Park points out, the data indicates that parents are the key to their child’s success in the classroom.