Apprentice teacher Cesar Sanchez is teaching math to 5th graders this summer at Centennial School. In Denver Public Schools, about 60 percent of the students are Hispanic but only 17 percent of the teachers are Hispanic. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post) Langston Williams had only one black teacher from kindergarten through his senior year in high school. Williams is not resentful about that fact but said it struck him as odd that during his time at Denver Public Schools, a district with about 83,000 students and more than 5,200 educators, only one teacher looked like him. "It's always comforting to see a similar face at the front of the classroom for some students," said Williams, who...
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