But the results are still too far off to remedy the acute shortage of minority teachers in urban schools.

We'll also lose many minority teachers because they have the least seniority.

Here they find strong evidence that minority teachers tend to be more effective with minority students.

He is involved with local communities and public schools as they promote the hiring of more minority teachers.

Many minority teachers choose to remain in the cities.

Because it is illegal to request information about race on a job application, school officials must recruit minority teachers in person.

But experts still see a critical need for increasing the pool of minority teachers.

"Our supply of minority teachers has still not increased, and a number of us feel it is important to do that."

Many school districts said they want to hire minority teachers, but have difficulty finding candidates.

There are some who say that money is not the only issue in Bridgeport's efforts to recruit minority teachers.