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School registration all-time high
Millions of baby boomers and foreign-born parents are enrolling their children, sending a demographic bulge through the schools that is driving a surge in classroom construction, The New York Times said Saturday.
The surge is causing thousands of districts to hire additional teachers at a time when the Bush administration is trying to upgrade teacher qualifications across the board. Many school systems have begun recruiting overseas for instructors in hard-to-staff subjects like special education and advanced math.
Three decades ago, in 1973, 78 percent of students attending the nation's public schools were white and 22 percent were minorities -- including blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and "other" -- U.S. Education Department statistics show. In 2004, the last year for which numbers were available, 57 percent of all public school students were white, while 43 percent were minorities.
If trends continue as they have for 30 years, minority students appear likely to outnumber white students within a decade or so. In six states -- California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas -- they already do.
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Copyright 2006 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 08/26/2006
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