WRAL Investigates

Diversity Gap: Lena Tillett's complete two-part package

While North Carolina's public schools are growing increasingly diverse, the state's public school teachers remain overwhelmingly white and female. The state's colleges of education are committed to addressing the problem, but their enrollment figures show they have a long, long way to go.
Posted 2019-01-25T23:09:39+00:00 - Updated 2019-01-25T23:35:48+00:00
WRAL anchor Lena Tillett investigates NC's teacher diversity gap

While North Carolina's public schools are growing increasingly diverse, the state's public school teachers remain overwhelmingly white and female. The state's colleges of education are committed to addressing the problem, but their enrollment figures show they have a long, long way to go. And a once-effective state program now apparently has no diversity goals whatsoever.

Here is Lena Tillett's investigation.

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