Chalkbeat reports that teachers who share the specific racial or ethnic background of their students may be better able to ...

Nearly 1 in 5 students in New York City identified as Asian American during the last school year, while roughly 8% of the city's teachers did. The gap is even wider for school administrators ...

Nearly 1 in 5 NYC students are Asian American. Just 8% of teachers are. For her first few years in New York City’s public school system, Kai Kraft thought she was “the only Asian kid in the ...