Minority Students Account for Over 40 Percent of U.S. School Enrollment - HispanicBusiness.com: WASHINGTON -- Minority students now account for 42 percent of public school enrollments in the United States, up from 22 percent three decades ago, driven mainly by an extraordinary influx of Hispanics, U.S. media reported Friday.
A statistical survey of the nation's educational system portrays sweeping ethnic shifts that have transformed the schools. The changes have been most striking in the West, where, the survey says, Hispanic, black and Asian students together have outnumbered whites since 2003, The New York Times reported.
The annual survey was cited as showing that all regions in the country have seen growth in minority student enrollment, particularly by Hispanics, who accounted for one of five public school students in 2005, the last year for which data were available.
