All children deserve a good education, but too many of them do not receive one. Unsurprisingly, students who are most likely to attend under-resourced schools with underprepared teachers are poor, Black and brown. It is a situation that has stagnated for decades, but now the U.S. is at a reckoning point where our Black and brown school-aged children outnumber white school-aged children nationally.

However, teacher demographics are not diversifying at remotely the same pace. If we believe that all children deserve a good education, then we must make an honest effort to recruit and train more Black and brown teachers to serve—and represent—these chronically disenfranchised populations.

Click here to read the full Education Post article from Sposato alumnae, Ashley Davis and Taylor DeLoach.