Hispanics have passed whites as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school enrollment.
The influx of Hispanic students, many from poor families, has brought about many changes in classrooms, with more expected as that population continues to grow.
Some schools already struggle with how to teach an increasing number of poor children who don’t speak English. Others are preparing for a day when their enrollment primarily is made up of low-income students, most of them Hispanic.
By Tony Castro, Voxxi Latinos are now the largest ethnic group in Texas public schools, surpassing non-Hispanic whites in Lone Star State enrollment for the first time in history. The dramatic change, though, has not been without major pressures on the already financially stressed school systems throughout the state, which…
*Timely information, given the recent Supreme Court decision on Affirmative Action. There's more to this story than numbers and enrollment rates. The enrollment is concentrated in community colleges and for-profit schools, and the rate of graduation remains bleak. VL By Irene Florez, New America Media Recent data show that nationwide…
PRESS RELEASE One-in-Four Public Elementary School Students is Hispanic Hispanics now are the largest minority group on the nation's four-year college campuses, according to an analysis of newly available U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. For the first time, the number of 18-…
More than three in 10 Latino families in the United States caring for children under the age of 5 say they support the mass deportations promoted by President Donald Trump, […]
