Teach for America wants to recruit more Hispanic teachers - Campus Overload - The Washington Post: The number of Hispanic children is surging, but public schools across the country face a shortage of teachers with the same cultural heritage, my colleague Robert Samuels reports. If that changed, experts say students might do better.
In Prince George’s County, which is Maryland’s second-largest school system, 21 percent of students are Hispanic while only 2 percent of teachers are Hispanic. The county is aggressively trying to recruit Hispanic teachers from across the country — as are many other school districts.
A recent initiative: Teach for America and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund partnered last month to urge more Hispanic college students to consider a career in education. Only 8 percent of Teach for America’s incoming corps of teachers are Hispanic, while more than 40 percent of children reached by the organization are Hispanic.
