Increasing minority population reflected in preschool, kindergarten

Sandy Cullen:

Forty-five percent of children in the United States under the age of 5 are minorities, according to Census Bureau numbers released Wednesday.

"In Madison, those numbers are higher," said Karen Dischler, intergenerational program coordinator for RSVP of Dane County and co-director of the United Way's Preschools of Hope project. This year, just under 50 percent of kindergarten students in the Madison School District are minorities.

The growing number of minority students is largely the result of higher birth rates among minorities coupled with a rise in immigration.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 12, 2006 3:05 PM
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