Tulsa Sees Drop In Hispanic Student Enrollment

Since Oklahoma's anti-illegal immigration law took effect on November 1st, enrollment numbers for Hispanic students in many Tulsa-area school systems have dropped, it's reported today.

That trend is most noticeable in the Tulsa Public Schools system, which has seen a drop in enrollment of 257 Hispanic students between the fall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters, officials said. There now are 7,764 Hispanic students enrolled in the system.

Gary Lytal, the school system's assistant to the superintendent for accountability and research, said that during the 2006-07 school year, Hispanic enrollment rose during the same October-to-January period.

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