Teachers Paid Less in Higher-Minority Schools
In many ethnically diverse school districts across the country, teachers in schools that serve more African-American and Latino students are paid significantly less—about $2,500 per year on average—than their colleagues in schools with fewer students of color, according to an analysis released today by the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights.
(The department hasn't provided details yet on what "more" means in this context and whether officials there are looking strictly at enrollments or overall proportions of students of color in school buildings. We'll update this item as soon as we have that information.)
The analysis is based on data from the OCR's Civil Rights Data Collection from 2009-10. More than 7,000 districts are included in this survey. For this particular analysis, the Education Department crunched data from
