Report and Accompanying Web-Based Data Tool Expose how Poor and Minority Students are Being Denied Their Fair Share of the State’s Most Experienced Teachers
ECISD:
Total Enrollment 27,332
Percentage Hispanic Students 96.9
Percentage Low-Income Students 85.9
School Level Highest- and Lowest-Poverty Schools Highest- and Lowest-Minority Schools
Elementary -$4,075 -$3,249
Middle -$1,090 -$1,090
High -$487 -$487
Negative numbers indicate that the average teacher salary in the highest-poverty or highest-minority schools during the 2005-2006 school year was less than the average teacher salary in the lowest-poverty or lowest-minority schools, respectively.
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"We need to be able to communicate to legislators why this is an issue and why it's important to the future of education," Durón said.
Durón said the best way to attract quality teachers is to offer higher salaries in those challenging schools, rather than bonuses tied to improved test scores. "I think we'll know we've arrived when the state starts to put some serious money into these schools, recognizing that this is where it's hardest to teach," he said.
“The only way persistent achievement gaps for poor and minority students can close in Texas is if these students first have their equitable share of the best credentialed and best paid teachers.”
