OCR Data: Teachers At High-Minority Schools Paid Less

Education Week (9/28, Sawchuk) reports that according to an analysis of OCR's Civil Rights Data Collection from the 2009-10 school year, "in many ethnically diverse school districts across the country, teachers in schools that serve the top quintile of African-American and Latino students are paid significantly less-approximately $2,500 per year-than the average teacher in such districts." Such disparities were found in 59% of the districts that OCR studied, Education Week notes, adding that the "data demonstrate some fairly hefty gaps in spending between schools that serve more students of color and those that serve fewer such students."