Figuring the Future

The enrollment record expected to be set in the nation's classrooms this fall will continue to be broken each year until 2006, according to projections from the U.S. Department of Education. That means the school population of 51.7 million this fall will have reached 54.6 million by the fall of 2006. The following figures that will affect the nation's school system are based on the 1990 census and include revised population projections made by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to reflect 1994 population estimates and updated estimates of the fertility rate, net immigration,...