California has a far more racially and ethnically diverse teaching force than it had 20 years ago — and a more diverse one than is the case nationally. About about 1 in 3 of the state’s 305,000 teachers are teachers of color, compared to 1 in 5 teachers across the nation.
But during the same period, California’s public school student population has also become more diverse. As a result, the diversity gap between teachers and students has barely narrowed, and in some cases widened.
The results underscore the ongoing challenge that California has in creating a teaching force that mirrors the diversity of its student body. Students of color now comprise three quarters of the state’s 6.2 million public school enrollment.
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