Will Teachers Determine the Next President?
Ballots for the November 3rd presidential election are in the mail in North Carolina, we are in the countdown phase heading towards selecting a president.
Teachers live and work in every hamlet, town and city, in every one of the over 13,000 school districts.
There are 3.2 million public school teachers in the nation, if you add in guidance counselors, school nurses, teacher aides, and paraprofessionals etc, over four million educators in public schools; about 70% of whom belong to one of the two teachers unions. (See all the data here).
A majority of students are non-white.
Here’s a racial breakdown of the student population in American public schools, as of 2017:
- White students: 47.6%
- Hispanic students: 26.7%
- Black students: 15.2%
- Asian students: 5.2%
- Two or more race students: 3.9%
- American Indian/Alaska Native students: 1.0%
- Pacific Islander students: 0.4%
When it comes to race, America’s teachers look very different from its student CONTINUE READING: Will Teachers Determine the Next President? | Ed In The Apple