Delaware District Looks To Increase Number Of Minority Teachers

Maryland's Delmarva Daily Times (8/27, Rothstein) reports that while the Indian River School District has greatly increased the diversity of the students it serves in the last few years, "the teachers have not experienced the same shift in diversity." There are few Hispanic or black teachers, while non-white students now comprise nearly one quarter of the student population in some of the district's schools. IRSD Superintendent Susan Bunting "acknowledges the need to hire more diverse candidates, but said, by law, the district must hire the most qualified candidate regardless of ethnicity." Bunting added, however, that the district has "really set out to be more aggressive with our attempts to increase our number of minority teachers" this year.