Effort Underway At Dallas ISD To Diversify Teaching Population

From CBS Dallas/Fort Worth:

By Erin Jones

October 7, 2020

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – There’s an effort underway to diversify Dallas ISD’s teaching population. The district wants to make sure its teachers accurately represent the students they serve.

Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Jairus McClinton was surrounded by teachers who looked like him.

“That’s not common around the world, but it was common in my world,” he said. “The area I grew up in was predominately black and because of the area that I grew up in, they insured that we had Black male teachers and Black female teachers that I could look up to, that I could go up to. To have their support, to have their understanding because they’ve been in the situations I‘ve been in… for me, it’s vitally important. For the most part, you don’t see a lot of Black male teachers in the school system.”

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