A new report finds schools with predominately African-American and Latino students have very high concentrations of novice teachers. The California-based Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning released the study. KPBS reporter Beth Ford Roth has the story.
Margaret Gaston is director of the Center. She says schools with large populations of African-American, Latino, and low-income students get the least prepared teachers.
Gaston: " Eighty five percent of the interns are assigned to those schools, in the lowest minority schools in the state, only three percent of interns are assigned to those schools.
Part of the problem is once novice teachers get experience, they move on to more affluent schools. Gaston says the state needs to reinstate programs that give these teachers financial incentives to stay put it. It disassembled those programs during the budget crisis.
The report also finds about a third of California's teachers will retire in the next decade. Beth Ford Roth, KPBS news.
