Over all, in the eight schools in the state university system, enrollment of minority freshmen will rise to 7,336 next fall, from 7,236 in 1997.
Due to the perceived problems with the traditional public school system, enrollment in public charter schools has steadily increased.
Over time, as people become increasingly familiar with the system, enrollments are likely to ramp up further, which is what the designers of the plan envisaged.
In Maryland, with one of the most trouble-plagued state-run systems, enrollment counselors said they had to resort to paper applications for a second day because the state exchange Web site remained so slow.
In Ethiopia the basic education system involves enrollment around the age of 7, although children frequently enroll below this age.
Another part of the system sends enrollment data to insurers.
Just 32percentt of the system's enrollment is white, non-Hispanic.
The city school system expects enrollment to grow by as many as 8,000 students this year, to roughly 1,095,000 children.
This fall, the school system's enrollment is projected to increase by roughly 11,800 students, or just over 1 percent.
By the year 2000, officials say, they want the system's enrollment to mirror the state's high-school population, of which 26percentt is made up of minority-group members.
Testifying on a different topic during a fractious meeting, where deficits and school closings dominated, was Andrew Broy, president of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, which serves 40,000 Chicago public school students, or 10 percent of the system's enrollment.
