Prince George's schools seek to close diversity gap - The Washington Post

Her children have been taught by teachers who are black, Asian, white and Hispanic, those who are young and those a bit older, and teachers with foreign accents and those without. And for that, Kathryn Holmes Johnson is thankful.

The Glenn Dale mother’s daughters, Bailey and Peri — in fourth and seventh grades at Benjamin Foulois Creative and Performing Arts Academy in Morningside — have benefited greatly from the diversity of their teachers’ backgrounds, Johnson said.

In Prince George’s County, the percentage of teachers of color, 67 percent this year, is more than twice the statewide average of 26 percent last year, but the county still is working to close the gap between the vastly nonwhite student population and the diversity of teachers.