Teachers of color win financial
support from Minnesota lawmakers
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/5/2021 2:02:00 PM
The state's newly enacted education funding bill includes a "historic investment" in efforts to boost the number of teachers of color in Minnesota, but there were missed opportunities, too, a chief advocate for the cause said Friday. "We're in a deep hole, and it's going to take decades to get out of this hole," said Paul Spies, legislative action team lead for the Coalition to Increase Teachers of Color and American Indian Teachers in Minnesota. A Star Tribune analysis has found that although about one-third of the state's kindergarten through 12th-grade students are nonwhite, teachers of color make up about 5%
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Segregation is bad, but keep them WHITE teachers out of Our schools. Minnesoder Gov. Tim agrees, raising the special racist fund to recruit Teachers of Color to around $13 million annually.