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Article: FEW MINORITY TEACHERS HIRED INSTRUCTOR DIVERSITY SLIPS EVEN AS IT RISES AMONG DPS STUDENTS.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- October 14, 2004
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Byline: Nancy Mitchell, Rocky Mountain News
The number of minority students in Denver Public Schools is booming, yet fewer minority teachers are being hired to lead classrooms.
Fewer than one in four DPS teachers - 24 percent - are minorities. New teachers hired this fall are even less diverse.
In contrast, more than 80 percent of Denver students are minorities. Hispanic children, who have fueled the district's escalating minority count in recent years, now make up 57 percent of all DPS pupils.
What results, in some schools, are huge disparities between the ethnicity of teachers and their students.
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