Percentage of Latino children in preschool declining
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Reversing a decades-long trend, the percentage of Latino children attending preschool across the U.S. declined between 2005 and 2009, with possible far-reaching consequences for California.
That's the conclusion of a report by UC Berkeley researchers, to be released at the Education Writers Association's annual conference in New Orleans today.
The drop in Latino attendance could be a result of multiple factors, the researchers say. One is that the unemployment rate of Hispanic women over the age of 20 nearly doubled between 2005 and 2009, mainly as a fallout from the Great Recession that began in 2007. That means that these women either were less able to
