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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Diversity hiring is intended to match the available pool of candidates, so it’s nit intended to hire AA teachers as role models. It’s supposed to ensure that employers are doing their best to hire across racial boundaries. For example, if 20% of qualified teachers are Hispanic, school systems should strive for 20% of their QUALIFIED teachers to be Hispanic. It does not force schools to hire a particular percentage or to hire less qualified teachers based on race.

At least, that’s the point of EEO initiatives. I don’t know what actually happens in the school system.[/quote]

MCPS went to Puerto Rico after the hurricane to hire teachers who speak Spanish.

https://rockvillerampage.com/13668/news-briefs/mcps-travels-to-puerto-rico-to-recruit-bilingual-teachers/[/quote]

Not because they wanted to hire Latinos. The goal was to hire highly qualified Spanish and ESOL teachers. [/quote]

No--they were recruiting teachers for Spanish/bilingual programs, who can teach academic subjects IN Spanish.  These programs were expanded this year and will possibly add more in the near future, if there is an available talent pool to staff them.  Teaching Spanish as a language and delivering instruction in Spanish is different.  There is no shortage of highly qualified ESOL/world languages teachers in MCPS.  They are no longer considered critical need areas nor part of MCPS funded partnership programs.

From the very short article itself:
[quote]Recruited teachers play a key role in the school system’s two-way language immersion programs, where 50 percent of instruction is delivered in Spanish, and the other 50 percent in English. [/quote][/quote]

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