US: Surging growth in Latino students has country looking to California schools

[Francis Hult]

Mercury News

 

Surging growth in Latino students has country looking to California schools

 

Latinos make up nearly half of California's K-12 public school students, and their numbers are surging across the country, underscoring a growing challenge for educators who are looking to the Golden State for ways to adapt to the changing face of America's classrooms. 

 

Almost one in three of the country's Latino students go to school in California. But the numbers, revealed Tuesday in one of the first comprehensive looks at Latinos in public schools, show Latinos now make up the largest minority student group in 22 states. 

 

Since 1990, the number of Latino school-age children nationwide grew 94 percent and now is projected to swell 166 percent through 2050. By contrast, whites, blacks, Asians and other non-Hispanics in K-12 edged up just 9 percent in the same 16 years, and will slow to 4 percent growth through 2050, according to the report by the Pew Hispanic Center.

 

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