All New York students deserve access to strong educators who are highly skilled, well-supported, and diverse.
Educator Diversity
New York’s educator workforce does not come close to representing the rich diversity of the state’s students, leaving many Latino and Black students without access to teachers or school leaders of the same race or ethnicity.
Absent Teacher Reserve
Access to strong educators is an essential pillar of educational equity.
Ed Trust–NY, New York State Council of School Superintendents call on school districts to take ‘5 steps’ to improve educator diversity
Read moreThe Educator Diversity Playbook offers strategies and examples of how school districts can recruit, support, and retain educators of…
The Absent Teacher Reserve: New Data and More Questions
Read moreTo:Education ReportersFrom:Ian Rosenblum, Executive Director of The Education Trust–New YorkEvan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence…
Newsday: Get New York State’s teacher-evaluation law right
Read moreRead why it is imperative that New York State leaders get the teacher evaluation system right in this opinion…
EdTrust–NY offers comment on teacher evaluations
Read more"Teacher evaluation should be a tool to identify our strongest educators as well as those who need additional support.…
Community members discuss the state of educator diversity in Buffalo and Erie County
Read moreAs The Education Trust–New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of…
Limited and partial information released on Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) teachers permanently placed into NYC classroom vacancies
Read moreIn response to the New York City Department of Education’s decision to permanently place teachers from the Absent Teacher…
Teachers from NYC Absent Teacher Reserve were disproportionately placed in schools that serve Black and low-income students
Read moreThe release of this limited information about placement of teachers from the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) reveals that the…
NYC Department of Education declines to promptly release data on Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) in response to FOIL request from The Education Trust–New York and Educators for Excellence-New York
Read moreIn response to a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking the public release of data on placement of teachers…
The Education Trust–New York and Educators for Excellence-New York call for ‘full and immediate transparency’ on New York City’s placement of teachers from the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR)
Read moreEducators for Excellence-New York and The Education Trust–New York today filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to…
EdTrust-NY releases first-ever look at educator diversity in districts across New York
Read moreOne-third of all New York schools have no Latino or Black teachers, new report from Ed Trust–NY reveals More than…
One-third of all New York schools have no Latino or Black teachers, new report from Ed Trust–NY reveals
Read moreMore than 115,000 Latino and Black students – 10 percent – are enrolled in schools without a single same-race/ethnicity…
The Education Trust–New York issues public comment on proposal for teacher certification at SUNY-authorized charter schools
Read moreThe Education Trust–New York submitted the following letter in response to SUNY's proposed teacher certification regulation for SUNY-authorized charter…
The Education Trust–NY Issues Statement in Response to the Elimination of the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) for Teacher Certification in NY
Read moreThe following statement can be attributed to Ian Rosenblum, Executive Director of The Education Trust–New York:"With research showing that…
