White students now a minority among U.S. first-graders, Census Bureau reports redicecreations/article.php?id=31791 Earlier this year, The Oregonian broke the news that Latino students for the first time accounted for one of every four Oregon first-graders in fall 2013. Today the Census Bureau reports that, also for the first time last fall, students of color made up the majority of first-graders nationwide. Non-Hispanic white students made up 49 percent of first-graders, according to the new Census Bureau report, School Enrollment in the United States: 2013. That marked a big change from a decade earlier, when 60 percent of the nation’s youngest pupils were white, the bureau said. Similar to Oregon, where Latinos made up 24 percent of public school first-graders, Latino students made up 27 percent of the country’s public and private school first-graders in fall 2013, the report indicates.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:31:04 +0000
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