Wednesday, October 26, 2016

MCPS: once nearly all-white school district has a new largest group: Hispanic students

Hispanic students for the first time outnumber their peers in other racial and ethnic groups in Montgomery County’s public schools, a milestone for diversity in a suburb long regarded as largely white and affluent.
The school district in 2016-2017 is 30 percent Hispanic, 29 percent white, 22 percent black and 14 percent Asian, according to school district data, a student body that would have been difficult to imagine five decades ago, when Montgomery’s enrollment was 94 percent white...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a-once-nearly-all-white-district-now-has-a-new-largest-group-hispanic-students/2016/10/21/99501810-8efe-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

1 comment:

  1. The demographics of diversity
    Aimed to target adversity
    Will make it a necessity
    To attend a university.

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