A panel of education specialists convened at the Legislative Office Building to examine effective strategies and hindrances affecting Black and Brown educators in particular.
Connecticut boasts a student body of 275,000 students of color, constituting 54% of the total enrollment, alongside 54,000 multilingual learners conversant in over 145 languages. Presently, educators of color comprise 11.7% of the state’s teaching cohort, a notable increase from 8.3% in 2016.