USAFacts noted that Black men represented only 1.3% of all teachers, despite Black students making up approximately 15% of the nation’s student population that year. Hispanic teachers represented 11.6% of the workforce, while Black teachers accounted for just 9.4%. Secondary schools had the highest concentration of white teachers, with 86.2% of educators identifying as white, leaving Black teachers deeply underrepresented at those levels. The same survey found that Black teachers were more likely than white teachers to report performing additional unpaid work. “The framing, I think historically, has been that Black teachers are just good for Black students,” Bristol told EdSource in 2021.