BLACK TEACHERS MATTER

Percentage Change in Teacher Population by Race and Ethnicity, 2002-2012



In all, that means 26,000 African American teachers have disappeared from the nation's public schools—even as the overall teaching workforce has increased by 134,000. Countless black principals, coaches, cafeteria workers, nurses, and counselors have also been displaced—all in the name of raising achievement among black students. While white Americans are slowly waking up to the issue of police harassment and violence in black communities, many are unaware of the quiet but broad damage the loss of African American educators inflicts on the same communities.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/black-teachers-public-schools-education-system-philadelphia

[font color = green]iDiocracy must be smashed, and soon.