Texas needs more minority teachers, experts say
07:04 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 3, 2010
AUSTIN – Texas' minority student enrollment continues to surge, but the state's teacher corps isn't keeping pace.
That has left large numbers of black and Hispanic children without the role models experts believe would help them achieve more.
Hispanic students made up more than 48 percent of the enrollment in Texas schools in the 2008-09 school year, the most recent figures available, and the state projects they'll be more than half by the 2011-12 school year.
When black student enrollment – increasing at a much slower pace – is added, more than 62 percent of students are minorities. A decade ago, it was 53 percent.
Two out of three Texas teachers in the past school year were white, a