Utah Public Schools Have Record Numbers of Minority Students
Utah public schools now have a record number of minority students. A new report released yesterday from the state's Board of Education found that 26 percent of all students in the state's K-12 public schools are minorities, and the majority of those students are Hispanic. Roughly 75-hundred new students came into the school system last year, and 61 percent of those students were minorities. That growth rate is down a bit from previous years, but school officials say they are celebrating the increase in diversity.