Schools fall short on hiring minorities

from the Advocate-Messenger:

A report released Dec. 4 by the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights reveals area schools are among those with low numbers of minority educators.

The report found that the number of minority educators in public schools statewide is 4 percent, while minorities make up about 14 percent of the student population.

Educators are defined as teachers in the report, which looked at numbers for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Victoria Dempsey, spokeswoman for the KCHR, said the basic finding is that what is being done is not working...