Not exact matches
We also know that
Black teachers are often asked to play roles, often unspoken,
due to their race / ethnicity, which can impact their effectiveness and decision to continue teaching.
Different people and cultures have differing reasons for leaving, but very often the high attrition rate for
Black teachers is
due to school and school system culture, policies, processes, etc. that do not fully support them (Kini & Podolsky, 6/16).
Lincove says it's unclear if this trend emerged
due to hiring practices at charter schools or because teaching in the city just became less attractive to
black teachers.
Then stop sending
Black boys to failed schools that keep funding the NAACP through
teachers union
dues.»
Traditionally, Hartford has had one of the highest proportions of
Black and Latino
teachers in the State of Connecticut likely
due to a combination of factors including job discrimination and a desire to work with
Black and Latino students.
More than 38,000
Black teachers and administrators in 17 southern states lost their jobs
due to the closing of all -
Black schools and the unwillingness of newly segregated schools to hire
Black educators.
In fact, very few states in the South offered the basic guarantee of
due process to
Black teachers but, in those states where
teachers were protected, they were able to speak and testify openly and honestly about the detrimental impact of Jim Crow on their students.
To be clear, when confronted with inequalities in pay and the denial of tenure to
Black teachers, the NAACP did not argue for an end to tenure, but for the extension of the same basic protections of
due process to
Black teachers.
Test scores and graduation rates went up, but thousands of mostly
black teachers were dismissed and thousands of students were suspended or expelled
due to zero - tolerance discipline policies.