Study: Suburban Schools Slow to Reflect Diversity Despite Large Minority Migration
April 1, 2009
Rob Kuznia--HispanicBusiness.com
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Even though millions of minorities are migrating into the public schools of American suburbs, individual suburban schools have been slow to reflect the diversity, according to a new study.
The study, released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, concludes that although 99 percent of this past decade's upsurge of 3.4 million additional students into American suburban schools are Hispanic, Asian or black, the desegregation of the individual schools has been modest.
In 2006-2007, the typical white suburban student attended a school that was 75 percent white, while in 1993-94 the figure was 83 percent. Meanwhile, since then the overall share of white students in suburban schools has dropped by 13 percent, to 59 percent, the study says.
The study shows that the proportion of students in suburban schools who are Hispanic has nearly doubled, from 11 percent in 1993-1994 to 20 percent in 2006-2007, the latest year data was available.
However, the study said the overall migration of students out of the urban school districts has had the effect of making the entire American school system more diverse.
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