History Teachers of Color
Following this court case, an estimated 38,000 African American teachers lost their jobs or were displaced.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
In the 2017-2018 school year, 77% of the US teacher workforce was made up of this gender.
What is female?
This assessment was removed as a requirement for certification because it restricted subgroups from the teaching profession.
What is the Basic Skills Examination?
In the 2018-2019 school year, this percentage of employed teachers were white.
What is 91%?
Before 1964, this approximate percentage of college-educated African-Americas in the South were teachers.
What is 50%?
This Michigan district is experiencing 57.3% gap between the racial diversity of their student population and that of their teaching workforce.
What is St. Ignace?
(in the Upper Peninsula)
Out of the 269,065 individuals with a current teaching certificate, this number are American Indian/Alaskan Native.
What is 426?
Michigan certified this number of males of color in the 2018-2019 school year.
What is 82?
This piece of legislation tied federal education funding to school integration efforts.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
Between 1971 and 2019, the number of non-black teachers has increased by this percent.
What is