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Thursday, January 29, 2004
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THE IUTtT
Hispanics boost enrollme
in Western public schools
lly Steve Giegerich
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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With Hispanics graduating from high school
in numbers that will keep increasing for years,
the head of a higher education group that
released a new report on the trend says colleges
need to step up efforts to accommodate the
nation’s largest minority.
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher
Education projects that Hispanics will account for
21 percent of the country’s public high school
graduates in 2008, up from 17 percent in 2002.
The commission found that nearly 5 million
Hispanics were enrolled in the country's public
elementary and high schools in 1993-94. And by
the 2007-08 school year, it projects that Latino
public school enrollment will be about 9 million.
“In general, colleges are still not prepared,’’
said David Longanecker, executive director of the
interstate commission. Its report, “Knocking at
the College Door,” is released every live years and
is used by local school districts, states and higher
education to track enrollment trends.
“We know there is a relationship between race
and income and academic pre
paredness,” Longanecker said.
“But we don’t have the support
services in place to enhance the
success that we need.”
Using data compiled from the
nation’s leading test-makers, the
U.S. census and other sources,
the WICHE study projects a sig
nificant regional shift in the
school-age population to the
South and West that follows gen
eral population trends.
In 2007-08, Southern states
are expected to enroll 16.7 mil
lion students in kindergarten
through high school. WICHE
said enrollment in Western
schools will be 11.9 million in 2007-08, followed
Hispanic school enrollment rises
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over the past few years.
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with the Pew Hispanic Trust
by 10.8 million in the Midwest and 9.3 million in
the Northeast.
Because of continuing gains in Hispanic enroll
ment, the report said, white students will represent
a minority of graduates from Western high schools
in 2013-r4:*‘ j^V 1 .
Although Hispanics enroll in college at almost
the same rate as non-Latino students, they
bring special circumstances to school
Richard Fry, a senior research associate yw
Pew Hispanic Trust.
Hispanics are less likely to attend co|| ese «. ovis ,
time and are more likely to work M > they^Mj st(
\ide financial support to dependents. Fry^Imderf
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work lives, their family lives, as well asjBeasui
academic lives,” Fry said. ■ “A
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particular, need to improve
services for Hispanic stj!
placed in remedial acadenn. ^ ls ' ne
vocational training program rel
T. Jaime Chahin, a scholar B
lomas Rivera Center at
I niversity in San Antonio,
some schools, especially a
Southwest, are making nj
integrating Hispanic culture
campus life. j
But he said schools acrj
country need to do a betterji]
recruiting and retaining
faculty members who can
as role models for Hi
undergraduates.
The process of piu;
Hispanics toward college degrees neay
begin at the elementary school level,
Hispanics should feel “that col
novelty but is something that is expected,
first-generation students who have
exposed to these kinds of opnort
Chahin. also a professor at SoutfiV
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