Schools need the state’s help to recruit and retain teachers of color, report says

SCHOOL DISTRICTS, COUNTY offices of education and teacher preparation programs need the state to help them collaborate to diversify the teacher workforce, according to a report released by the educator diversity advisory task force assembled by California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.

“It is happening in very siloed ways that undermine a systemwide or comprehensive approach to diversifying the teacher workforce, but they don’t know or are unaware of how to deepen that work, because it’s happening in silos,” said Travis J. Bristol, a UC Berkeley education professor and chairman of the advisory group.