U.S. Teacher Workforce Lacks Diversity, Puts Student Achievement at Risk

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 9, 2011. Today, as America’s public schools grow increasingly more diverse every day, a new report released by the Center for American Progress finds that nearly every state is experiencing a large teacher diversity gap, or a significant difference between the number of students and teachers of color.

At some point over the next 10 to 12 years, the nation’s public school K–12 student body will have no one clear racial or ethnic…