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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the article, black teachers are underrepresented and black administrators are overrepresented.  Since principals have absolute authority over hiring teachers in their schools, there could be bias at the individual school/principal level.  The difference between underrepresentation and normal representation is only a couple percentage points, so it could just be coming down to the applicants to the particular schools, rather than solely due to bias.

Taking hiring authority away from principals may solve that problem but would definitely create others.  Interesting study with interesting results.  [/quote]

Yes.  And, I suspect a lot of information was left out.  I would be interested in seeing the geography of where the applicants came from.  In other words, do they come from Virginia or Deep South or west coast, etc.  My bet is that a lot of the AA teacher applicants not hired were not local.  In fact, I bet that most applicants hired are local--no matter what race.[/quote]

I guarantee geographic discrimination is not happening here. Otherwise, the racial scales would not be so terribly uneven. Mason did a fairly thorough job. They even separated black applicants from other minorities like Asian and Hispanics. If the issue was geography, I'm sure they would've been able to tease that out. I'm willing to bet Fairfax hired more whites from other parts of the country (and world) than blacks from this area. [/quote]

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