Plaza Comunitaria

Program Overview

The Latin American Coalition is a recognized Plaza Comunitaria site, enabling us to offer Mexican nationals and other Hispanic adult students the opportunity to complete their elementary and middle school education. Plaza Comunitaria is a free curriculum in Spanish created by the Mexican National Institute of Adult Education (INEA) to help Hispanics learn to read and write in their native language and finish elementary- and intermediate-level education certified by the Mexican Department of Education. All students must take diagnostic testing provided by SASACE to determine their course of study.

Each book in the curriculum requires one to three months to complete and test except for basic literacy, which takes an average of a year to complete the first book. Both elementary and intermediate level students are required to complete a total of twelve books to complete an educational level. All books in the curriculum are based on life and work skills and are written exclusively for adults.