RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lacks robust and specific statewide efforts to ensure greater racial and ethnic diversity among teachers in public schools, the legislature’s government watchdog agency told lawmakers on Monday.
The Program Evaluation Division’s review
of activities by state officials, local school boards, charter schools and educator preparation programs describes initiatives to attract and retain Black and Hispanic candidates for K-12 classrooms. They include recruitment websites, scholarships, mentoring programs and professional development.
But the report’s authors conclude recent state initiatives — such as those originating from the Department of Public Instruction or Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper — either don’t explicitly target people of color or are too new or preliminary to be evaluated. Other initiatives lack financial resources, and many have a disparate array of goals and metrics from which to evaluate or compare.
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