And where do African American students fit in? In particular, African American students appear to be disproportionately excluded from these programs in many US communities. In essence, the campus’s shares of African American students and Latino students have nearly flipped. Recruiting and Retaining African American FamiliesShaheed and other school leaders worry that these demographic trends are undermining the school’s goal of making multilingual, multicultural instruction available to African American students in the Riverside area. It is worth emphasizing that nearly 200 of those 944 schools’ African American enrollment shares were within one percentage point of their surrounding districts’ African American enrollment shares.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2024 20:55 UTC