31.   Most Hispanic students do not study in bilingual classes because there are simply not enough classes to accommodate their rapidly growing numbers.

32.   Nakashima said the new admission policies will concentrate Asian-Americans at Berkeley and UCLA and shift African-American and Hispanic students to the other campuses.

33.   On another occasion, Salas went to a meeting of Hispanic students.

34.   One board member, Luis Reyes, said he was particularly troubled by the continuing low graduation rates and high dropout rates for Hispanic students.

35.   One was the low high school graduation rates for Hispanic students.

36.   Other critics see the SAT as a barrier to black and Hispanic students, who have lower average SAT scores than their white peers.

37.   Parents of some American-born students have complained that their children lose out because teachers spend too much time helping Hispanic students learn English.

38.   Overall scores for Hispanic students were also lower, except for Puerto Rican students, whose scores were up three points in verbal and one point in math.

39.   Pedro Noguera, a Harvard professor of communities and schools, said the majority of Hispanic students face cultural and language barriers that can hold them back.

40.   President Clinton announced more grants Thursday to help close a long-standing shortfall in educational achievement among Hispanic students.