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Article: Hispanics get serious on choice.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2007
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Byline: Burt Hubbard, Rocky Mountain News
Photos by Judy DeHaas
Hispanic students, who make up 57 percent of Denver Public Schools enrollment, are least likely to bypass their neighborhood schools for charters or other options in DPS. * Still, 37 percent of Hispanic DPS students took advantage of school choice in 2005-2006, compared with more than half of black and Anglo students. * And Hispanic families are growing more savvy as awareness about school choice expands.
Fine.
That was the gist of the answer most of the time when Rosanna Torres asked her son, Hugo, how his day had gone at Johnson Elementary in west Denver.
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