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| Latinos now make up a majority of California's public school students |
| 2010-11-15 |
| Latinos now make up a majority of California's public school students, cracking the 50 percent barrier for the first time in the state's history, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education. I wonder about their percentage in remedial and/or ESL vs. honors classes. Even more interesting would be comparing those results to the percentages for Indians or Orientals. Almost 50.4 percent of the state's students in the 2009-10 school year identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino, up 1.36 percent from the previous year. In comparison, 27 percent of California's 6.2 million students identified themselves as white, 9 percent as Asian and 7 percent as black. Students calling themselves Filipino, Pacific Islander, Native American or other total almost 7 percent. It's no surprise that Latinos make up the new majority in California schools, considering that their numbers have grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades. In 2009, Latinos made up 37 percent of the state's population, a number that continues to increase, according to the California Department of Finance. But their electoral sway has not grown by similar amounts, because almost 40 percent of adult Latinos in California are ineligible to vote, said Lisa Garcia Bedolla, an associate professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education. This means California's Undocumented Democrat population is at 5.67 million. (38,292,687 x 37%) x 40% That exceeds the population in 32 of the 50 states. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #6 While underrepresented on the voting rolls, Latino voters are an increasingly important factor in California elections. Notice the word "underrepresented". It is the favorite term used by those in promotion of "non-citizen voting". There was a recent a ballot provision in San Francisco that would have allowed non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, to vote in school board elections. I suspect politics - not population - was the motivation for this entire artcle. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2010-11-15 13:04 |
| #5 Yes I will abondon NJ. Happily. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2010-11-15 12:24 |
| #4 Make all the jokes you want, people. It could happen where you live just as easily. You want to abandon California? Then what? Arizona? New Mexico? Texas? Colorado? New York? I keep trying to tell you this is NOT a California problem, this is a federal problem. The federal government, YOUR government, is responsible. California just got screwed sooner than your state. But just wait. It's happening all over. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-11-15 12:15 |
| #3 The new data revealed high dropout rates for minority students: 41.3 percent of black students, 31.3 percent of Native Americans, 30.3 percent of Hispanics, and 27.9 percent of Pacific Islanders. White students had a 15.2 percent dropout rate, while Asians had a 10.2 percent rate. On another note: The net population outflow of Californians to other States is 2-3,000 a week. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-15 11:11 |
| #2 The joke's going to be on them when we trade the state for all the Treasuries the Chinese will be holding. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-11-15 09:22 |
| #1 The 'immigration problem' is resolving itself in California. The Gringos are leaving in droves! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-11-15 06:16 |