Educators of color account for less than 10% of all public school teachers across the country, Black men represent 2% of that total, according to the U.S. Department of Education. And based on numbers from California’s Department of Education, Black male teachers account for just 1% of the more than 300,000 instructors in the state.
Those stats matter because as LA Unified students struggle from pandemic learning setbacks and state test scores continue to show flat or declining results, huge achievement gaps are still a problem. Students of color, and especially Black students, are falling farther behind their white peers.
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