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Report: Shortage of black, Hispanic teachers to last until 2060

There are proportionately fewer teachers of color in schools than there are students of color, and that won’t change anytime soon, a new report says. KENT D. JOHNSON /KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
There are proportionately fewer teachers of color in schools than there are students of color, and that won’t change anytime soon, a new report says. KENT D. JOHNSON /KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
By Ty Tagami
Aug 19, 2016

A national shortage of black and Hispanic teachers will endure at least through 2060, a new report from the Brookings Institution says.

The report, "High hopes and harsh realities," uses U.S. Census projections to predict how long it will take for the teaching profession to mirror the increasingly diverse enrollment in America's schools.

More whites go into teaching, and they stay in the job a little longer, explaining a disproportion between the faces of students and their teachers: about half of students are white yet four out of five teachers are.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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