Blacks, Latino educators struggle in profession: Minorities are significantly underrepresented in public schools, despite the fact that the number of Black and Latino students have increased.
A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Northwest — “The Leaky Pipeline for Teachers of Color: Getting More Teachers of Color into the Classroom” — revealed while much has been done in the past 25 years to substantially increase the number of minority teachers, high levels of attrition has offset that success.
“If you spend time in almost any major school district in America today, you will notice that the students often do not look much like the teachers. In fact, in some areas, the students don’t look anything like their teachers,” said Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at CAP. “There is a significant demographic gap in the largely White teaching profession and an increasingly diverse student population,” he said.