KCPS Fights For DEI

A worldview to consider amid an upcoming vote . . .

Black children do better in school if during their academic journey they can connect with a teacher who looks like them.

The same goes for Latino students and children from other minority groups.

“The data is clear,” said Cornell Ellis, executive director of Brothers Liberating Our Communities, a Kansas City nonprofit known as BLOC that supports Black male educators. “The barriers for learning are lower when students and teachers have similar language, experiences and culture.”

That knowledge has guided teacher recruiting efforts for many school districts, especially those like Kansas City Public Schools, where 52% of the student enrollment is Black, 29% is Latino and only 10% is white.

Recruiting minority teachers has been touted as a best practice. Now, it is incendiary.

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Kansas City Public Schools finds itself embroiled in a DEI fight