96% Of Pennsylvania’s Teachers Are White. Does Anyone Else Think This Is A Problem?

I recently participated in a Twitter chat, #4percent, with researchers from Research for Action and other educators as a follow up to RFA’s insightful recent report, Patching the Leaky Pipeline: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color in Pennsylvania.

Patching the Leaky Pipeline: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color in Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sharif El-Mekki
Sharif El-Mekki
Sharif El-Mekki is the principal of Mastery Charter School–Shoemaker Campus, a neighborhood public charter school in Philadelphia that serves 750 students in grades 7-12. From 2013-2015, he was one of three principal ambassador fellows working on issues of education policy and practice with U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan.

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  1. […] This was not surprising.  After all, Pennsylvania ranks last in the nation in teacher diversity, with 96% of its teaching force being White serving a student population that is 33% of color. In Philadelphia, despite its diversity, the percentages of Black teachers has dropped from 40% to less than a quarter. And, according to state officials, the number of Latinx teachers has been almost stagnant. […]

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