The class of public high school seniors who receive their diplomas this June will be the first one ever in which kids of color make up a majority of the graduates, according to federal projections. By the second half of this decade, the federal government projects, those non-White young people will soar to about 55% of the nation’s public high school graduates, meaning they will likely constitute the majority of kids completing 12th grade through the foreseeable future.
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