National News Roundup

Although the number of minority students in the nation's schools continues to rise, a shortage of minority educators and bilingual teachers remains, according to the U.S. Education Department's new statistical profile of schools and their staffs and students.

The 1990-91 survey, compiled by the department's National Center for Education Statistics and released late last month, found that the percentage of students from minority groups had risen to 30 percent, from 28 percent in 1987-88.

In urban school systems, more than half of all students were...