Sentences with phrase «hire black educators»

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.

The very reasons schools were eager to hire black educators — that is, their perceived ability to work well with African - American students, particularly black students that other teachers were having trouble reaching — often morphed into career roadblocks.

Not exact matches

«Boston hires 49 percent of black teacher graduates and 24 percent of Latino educators» who come out of the state's teacher colleges, says Ceronne Daly, the district's managing director of recruitment, cultivation, and diversity programs.

To get there, we've set smart strategies for hiring and retaining black male teachers, starting with the transition of the Fellowship from a volunteer - run organization to one that is led by full - time educators and administrators.

In the early 1930s, Lewis met artist and educator Augusta Savage, who ran an arts school in Harlem and was involved with lobbying the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to hire more black artists.