Clarke needs more African-American teachers, says NAACP | Online Athens: African-American teachers are under-represented in the Clarke County School District, according to Clarke County’s chapter of the NAACP.
Members of the group have met more than once with Clarke County Superintendent Philip Lanoue and other administrators to press their case, and last year contacted each member of the Clarke County Board of Education asking for a meeting.
The group got a response from school board President Charles Worthy in November, but the board has not agreed to a meeting, said Tommie Farmer, a retired teacher who chairs the NAACP chapter’s education committee.
Last week, the group took their argument to the street. On Thursday, about a dozen NAACP members picketed at the Clarke County School District’s Mitchell Bridge Road offices.
