More than 80 percent of public school teachers in the U.S. are white, and a WXXI News investigation has found that the disparity is much more severe in the Rochester, NY and Finger Lakes regions. Degrees of Diversity takes an in-depth look at diversity among local teaching staffs, and the steps, if any, the districts are taking to making their staffs better reflect their student population.
Rochester City School Board president Van White has written a new children's book. It's called "Heroes," and it's about the everyday heroes in our liv...
Low-income students of color make up the majority of classrooms in American public schools, and research shows that the challenges they face -- povert...
It's graduation season... so are the local graduates getting local jobs? It's the first in our series of conversations with freshly minted college gra...
At the Little Theatre in Rochester, teachers, superintendents, parents and school board members discussed ways to bring more diversity to local teachi...
New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia sat down with WXXI Albany Correspondent Karen DeWitt to talk about WXXI's week-long series, Degre...
It's a special broadcast live from the Little Theatre. We're capping our week-long series exploring the lack of diversity on local teaching staffs. Ou...
It's a special broadcast live from the Little Theatre. We're capping our week-long series exploring the lack of diversity on local teaching staffs. Ou...
When local teaching jobs open up, superintendents say they rarely see candidates of color. New research indicates the pipeline has leaks at almost eve...
The WXXI News series, Degrees of Diversity , is the result of a year-long investigative reporting project that explores the wide gap between white tea...
Christopher Fields is rare in the teaching profession. He’s an African-American man, and he teaches sixth-grade English at East Lower School. Accordin...