Auburn Reporter - State of Washington, USA
The racial diversity of teachers in six school districts in South King County is low relative to the racial makeup of the districts’ students, according to data from Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
October 2015 figures from the Auburn, Kent, Federal Way, Highline, Renton and Tukwila districts reveal that students of color make up 69 percent of the total population of nearly 105,000 students – while classroom teachers of color account for only 15 percent of the nearly 6,000 classroom teachers in these six districts.
San Marcos High School student Brayan Reyes never thought of teaching as a career. Why would he?
Nearly one quarter, 24% of Today's Students, Tomorrow's Teachers (TSTT) students are male. 
Advocates that aim to close the gender gap in education met on Friday in the USU to discuss the causes and solutions for the lack of male educators in public schools, who make up a smaller percentage of educators today than they did in 1980.
California faces a looming teacher shortage, and, in particular, a deficit in the number of men interested in working in elementary education.
Christopher Fields is rare in the teaching profession. He’s an African-American man, and he teaches sixth-grade English at East Lower School. According to the U.S. Department of Education, you'd have to stop by more than 50 classrooms in this country before you found one black male teacher.
A group of local teachers has put together a plan to increase recruitment of black men into the profession.
This paper examines the experiences and outcomes of male teacher candidates in the College of Education at a large university in California.
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