Experts see education crisis looming as Latino population surges in Texas
Tagged: children, dropout rate, parents, population, student” Last year, Hispanic students made up 45 percent of public school enrollment, and they’re on the verge of becoming the majority. Yet the dropout rate for Latino students hovers around 48 percent”
“Imagine a Texas with declining household incomes, tax revenues that can’t keep up with demands for services and children growing up worse off than their parents.
That’s what Texans can expect unless government does a better job educating the growing Hispanic population, which could become the state’s majority by 2025.”
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September 5th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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