ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Data released Wednesday shows that teachers of color are underrepresented and less likely to stay in New York State public schools than their white colleagues. The New York Equity Coalition crunched the numbers from the New York State Education Department to identify trends and launched a new online tool for visualizing all that data.

Based on NYSED's most recent figures from the 2023 to 2024 school year, NYEC highlighted persistent disparities. While students of color represented 60% of K-12 enrollment statewide, only 20% of teachers were people of color, a 40 percentage point spread. This representation gap existed despite a small increase in the share of teachers of color since the 2018 to 2019 school year, which at the time was 16% of the workforce.

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