DFW Tops Growth Rates for Asian Students
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Research shows Dallas-Fort Worth has the largest growth rate in the country for Asian students.
Dallas-Fort Worth has the largest growth rate in the country for Asian students, according to new research from the Pew Hispanic Center.
The region also ranks among the Top 25 enrollment growth rates for black students.
The report indicates that the student population of America's schools increased by 3.4 million in the last 15 years and 99 percent of that enrollment increase is due to new Latino, black and Asian students.
According to the report, despite the increase there has been only a modest increase in the diversity of student populations in suburban schools. For example, in 2007, the typical white suburban student attended a school which had a 75 percent white student body; in 1993, this same figure had been 83 percent.
The report also examines the changes since 1993 in individual suburban school districts. It lists the suburban school districts that have had the fastest growth in minority enrollment, as well as those with the highest levels of racial/ethnic segregation.
Posted Friday, Jul 17, 2009 - 12:02 AM CST
