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Workforce Diversity Lags in Iowa School District

Efforts to make the Sioux Falls School District workforce more racially diverse are stuck in neutral after the number of minority teachers almost tripled in 2008. White students outnumber students of color nearly three to one this year, yet the ratio is 55-to-1 among teachers. Of all 2,850 district employees, 96.5 percent are white. The figures fall well short of a goal the school board set five years ago when it aimed to have 10 percent of all employees representing diverse populations by this year. Click here to read more.
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity