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The changing racial and ethnic composition of U.S. public schools A new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center that compared public school enrollment in the early 1990s with enrollment in the mid-2000s found that white students became less isolated from minority students while black and Hispanic students became more isolated from white students. The seemingly contradictory trends stem from the increase of more than 55 percent in the Hispanic slice of the public school populations, according to the analysis. In 1993-94, one-third of all white students attended a nearly all-white school. By 2005-06, one-fifth of white students attended a nearly all-white school. At the same time, school enrollment changes led to a diminished exposure of black and Hispanic students to whites. About 30 percent of Hispanic students and 30 percent of black students attended schools that were nearly all-minority in 2005-06. By comparison, about 25 percent of Hispanic students and 28 percent of black students were attending nearly all-minority schools 1993-94. Source: Pew Hispanic Center, "The changing racial and ethnic composition of U.S. public schools," August 30, 2007, http://pewhispanic.org.
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