Sentences with phrase «single teacher of color»
In 2000, 38 percent of public schools had not a single teacher of color; nationally, only 6 percent of teachers are black.
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«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.
Mr. Loeb urged that people «take up the fight against the teachers union, the single biggest force standing in the way of quality education and an organization that has done more to perpetuate poverty and discrimination against people of color than the K.K.K.»
In a 2010 «manifesto,» Klein and one of his protégés, Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellor of Washington, D.C., summed up their campaign like this: «The single most important factor determining whether students succeed in school is not the color of their skin or their ZIP code or even their parents» income — it is the quality of their teacher.»