Educator Diversity State Profiles

New York

EdTrust–New York is a statewide education policy and advocacy organization focused first and foremost on doing right by New York’s children. Although many organizations speak up for the adults employed by schools and colleges, we advocate for students, especially those whose needs and potential are often overlooked.

West

EdTrust–West is committed to dismantling the racial and economic barriers embedded in the California education system. Through our research and advocacy, EdTrust-West engages diverse communities dedicated to education equity and justice and increases political and public will to build an education system where students of color and multilingual learners, especially those experiencing poverty, will thrive.

Massachusetts

The Education Trust team in Massachusetts convenes and supports the Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership (MEEP), a collective effort of more than 20 social justice, civil rights and education organizations from across the Commonwealth working together to promote educational equity for historically underserved students in our state’s schools.

P-12

Educator Diversity State Profiles

Research says that teacher diversity benefits all students, regardless of race or ethnicity. However, while the majority of students…

July 27, 2022 by EdTrust

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Research says that teacher diversity benefits all students, regardless of race or ethnicity. However, while the majority of students in the U.S. are of color, only about 20% of the US public school teacher workforce identify as teachers of color.—a number that hasn’t budged in decades. This needs to change to better reflect our multicultural society.

Increasing the racial and cultural diversity of the teacher workforce takes a statewide commitment. It involves collecting and analyzing educator workforce data and making targeted, data-informed efforts to develop policies that recruit, support, and retain a high-quality and diverse educator workforce. That’s why Ed Trust developed the 50 State Data and Policy Teacher Diversity Tool, which looks at each state’s efforts to increase the number of teachers of color to their workforce.

For certain states, Ed Trust takes a deeper dive and looks at the landscape of policies and practices to provide data analyses and criteria to measure and rank select state efforts in promoting teacher diversity. Listed here are several state briefs designed to help the advocates, educators, and policymakers who are leading this work compare best practices and make informed decisions at the state level.