
Ferebee acknowledged that the system has “work to do” in areas such as recruiting more Latino and Hispanic educators. With the pandemic affecting student learning, and with a heightened national awareness around racial justice issues, experts say recruiting and retaining teachers and principals of color is essential in making schools more equitable.ĭ.C. “There’s so much messaging that happens on kind of a subconscious level.” “What message does that send to ? That Latinx people don’t or can’t become teachers,” Sanchez, who has since moved to Garrison Elementary, said of those disparities in an interview. The latter gap was even wider in Wards 1 and 4, where “15 percent and 10 percent of teachers are Hispanic/Latino, respectively, but 58 percent and 40 percent of students are Hispanic/Latino,” the report said. Nineteen percent of the city’s students, meanwhile, were Latino or Hispanic, compared with 7 percent of teachers.

students were males of color, compared with 16 percent of teachers. are more racially diverse than the national average, the city’s public and public charter schools have struggled to resolve a deficit of Latino teachers and male teachers of color - and to retain some educators once they’re hired.Ī 2019 report from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education found that roughly 45 percent of D.C. “I was just one of the few people who felt comfortable talking to, but I’m constantly wondering how many stories our Latinx students and their families would be empowered to tell if there were more Latinx teachers to tell them to.”Īs school districts across the nation have become increasingly diverse, the diversity of their teachers and administrators has lagged. “This gap should matter to us as it matters to the students who walk into the school every single day,” she said. Cooke Elementary in Northwest Washington, Sanchez told the board, she was one of only four Latino teachers serving a student body that is 52 percent Latino. schools to close last year, fourth-grade teacher Isabella Sanchez sat down in front of the District’s State Board of Education to explain why teacher diversity matters.


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