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Budget Cuts Could Hit Teachers Of Color Harder
By Opinion and Commentary | January 24, 2024
Teachers of color are more than twice as likely to be in their first three years of teaching than their white peers, despite teachers of color only accounting for 10% of the workforce
Hundreds of BPS jobs on the line as federal funds run out
By James Vaznis | December 14, 2023
The bleak financial outlook also could lead to the closure of dozens of classrooms and reductions in support services for students.
Seniority policies are holding back teacher diversity efforts.
By Lisa Lazare | September 12, 2023
To say that the racial and ethnic makeup of the Massachusetts teacher population is already out of step with the student body would be an understatement.
Seniority-driven layoff rules are bad for teacher diversity
By Rita Mendes | September 27, 2023
THE RECENT NEWS that the Brockton public school system faces a more than $14 million shortfall in its budget just days before the school year started sent shock waves across a community that has already seen layoffs of 130 teachers as it braces for more.
Teachers of color more likely to lose jobs under state's tenure-based layoff policy
By Carrie Jung | March 23, 2023
Teachers of color in Massachusetts are more likely to be affected by school layoffs than their white colleagues, according to a new report from a nonprofit teacher advocacy group.
A controversial way to protect teachers of color
By The Editorial Board | March 17, 2023
The teacher workforce in Massachusetts is overwhelmingly white: 90.4 percent of teachers and 81.3 percent of paraprofessionals in all public schools statewide are white, according to 2022 state data. The student body is far more diverse: 24.2 percent Hispanic, 9.4 percent Black, 7.3 percent Asian, and 54.4 percent white, according to 2022 figures.
This bill could protect teachers of color from being laid off in Mass.
By Alvin Buyinza | March 9, 2023
Ariana Horne has been teaching seventh-grade math at Chestnut Talented and Gifted Middle School in Springfield for four years now. Although Horne – a Black woman – feels supported by her administrators and principals, she fears if a layoff were to occur she’d be one of the first to lose their job.