This is a good change, and the Record article should have credited whoever was behind the push. My guess is that the new Principal, Mark Porto, deserves at least some of the credit. He took over after the untimely demise of Joseph DeFalco in 2005. It's very disturbing to learn that African-Americans and Latinos were steered away from Advanced Placement Courses at recently as a few years ago.
It's also well worth noting that the demographic statistics are virtually unchanged from 1995, that's 12 years ago. There are some people who believe that integration doesn't work and eventually all the white families will move away. Those people may have been right in the 1980's, but not any more. The stability of these numbers over a long time period shows that integration can and does work. And that's the future. Integration will come to every neighborhood of every city and town in Bergen County, and more and more mixed race children will enter the school system. In 30 years, Hackensack won't be as different from the rest of the County, demographically, as it is today, and there might not be any neighborhoods more than 50% of any one race.