Breaking News
Knights Gym1

Disproportionate Number of Teacher Lay Offs are Black and Latino

Disproportionate Number of Teacher Lay Offs are Black and Latino
4 comments, 09/12/2011, by , in News

The majority of school teachers recently laid off by the Chicago Board of Education are people of color, and hardest hit are African teachers in schools serving African American students, according to a new analysis released today by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).
An analysis of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) layoffs shows 55 percent of teachers who lost their jobs this past year are people of color.  The data are especially troubling because according to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), blacks make up only 30 percent of all public school teachers. Given the push for a longer, better school day neighborhood schools need more teachers not less.
According to the ISBE School Report Card data for 2010:
50.6 %  of CPS teachers are White
29.6 % of CPS teachers are African American
15.2 % of CPS teachers are Latino
Yet, a demographic analysis of the 75 percent of laid off teachers for whom data was available on ISBE‘s Teacher Service Record reveals:
43 % of  laid off CPS teachers are African American
40 % of laid off CPS teachers are White
12 % of laid off CPS teacher are Latino
“Clearly I am disturbed when any teacher is put out of work, however, this is a disturbing trend that has real consequences  for the overwhelming Black and Latino student population in our schools who look to their teachers as role models for achievement and success,” said CTU President Karen GJ Lewis. “We want to know what CPS is doing to address this racial disparity.
With unemployment soaring in the black community, why is CPS exacerbating this crisis by getting rid of experienced and valuable educators in the first place?”
In addition to the racial disparity in the teacher layoffs, there are disparities regarding the schools from which teachers were laid off. The 930 school-based teachers laid off are 4.4 percent of teachers working in schools. However, these layoffs were twice as likely to occur at schools with greater concentrations of low-income students or African American students.
Throughout CPS, 87 percent of students receive free or reduced lunch. However, these low-income students are not evenly distributed throughout the system. The schools that have a higher concentration of economically disadvantaged students have twice the teacher layoff rate of those schools with lower concentrations of these students, as shown in the chart below.
——————————————————————————————-
Demographics of Teachers and Students in Chicago Public Schools
 
Teachers
Number of 
Black Teachers    Percentage       Year
9,163                  39.4%              2002
7,162                  31.6%              2008
6,332                  29.7%              2010
Down by 2,831 since 2002

 

Number of   
White Teachers    Percentage      Year
10,466                 45.0%             2002
11,037                 48.7%             2008
10,596                 49.7%             2010
Up by 130 since 2002
Number of  
Latino Teachers    Percentage      Year
2,884                   12.4%             2002
3,468                   15.3%             2008
3,433                   16.1%             2010
Up by 549 since 2002
 
Students

Number of
Black Students     Percentage      Year
                           50.8%            2002
                           45.4%            2008
184,176               45%               2010
Number of
White Students     Percentage     Year
                           9.6%              2002
                           8.3%              2008
36,835                 9%                 2010
Number of
Latino Students     Percentage     Year
                            36.1 %           2002
                            39.7%            2008
167,804                41%               2010

Research above data on teachers and students since 2002 provided by The Black Star Project (September 22, 2011).

About IAmNotARapperiSpit.com

Creator: IAmNotARapperiSpit.com; Owner: iSpitMarketing & Consulting Solutions; CEO: Monkeybread Multimedia Conglomerate, Sporty Marketing Firm & Temp Agency. Marketing Director: Star & BucWild Enterprises Visionary | Philanthropist | Innovator @King_Spit
FEATURED VIDEO

4 comments

  1. Staci Moore via Facebook
    December 9th, 2011 18:25

    hmmm…

    Reply

  2. Staci Moore via Facebook
    December 9th, 2011 18:25

    hmmm…

    Reply

  3. December 9th, 2011 15:20

    #IAmNotARapper RT Disproportionate Number of Teacher Lay Offs are Black and Latino http://t.co/7NihlTnw

    Reply

  4. December 9th, 2011 15:20

    #IAmNotARapper: Disproportionate Number of Teacher Lay Offs are Black and Latino http://t.co/LjBJjkeO

    Reply

What Are You Thinking?

%d bloggers like this: