Illinois is next with 91.6 percent, followed by Missouri with 90.8 percent. The lowest percentage is found in Utah, with 18.7 percent minority students. Just ahead of Utah is Oregon with 19.3 percent. Concern that charter schools might re-segregate public education surfaced almost as soon as they were proposed. Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 56.8 percent of all students enrolled in the 1,465 charter schools reported to the Department of Education for the 1999-2000 school year.
Integration follows good education.
Minority parents know just as well as white kids where the good schools are. The study found that 90 percent of the charter schools in mostly minority school districts were serving mostly minority students. We wanted a more diverse population and we got kids from 33 different schools. They were more Asian, more black and more Hispanic.