Source: Chron.com

Houston Chronicle reports Houston ISD and a majority of Houston-area districts are bucking national trends when it comes to the hiring of African-American teachers. About 36.2 percent of teachers in Houston ISD are black, compared with about 7 percent nationwide and 10 percent in Texas. While 16 of 24 Houston-area school districts exceeded the state and national average for the percentage of teachers who are African-American, some have very few. Only four -- or 1.1 percent of -- teachers in Friendswood ISD are black. Katy ISD, which is the eighth-largest district in Texas, reported that about 6.4 percent of its teacher workforce was black in 2016-2017. Those districts with fewer black teachers reflect a national trend that has been ongoing for several decades, according to Valerie Hill-Jackson, clinical professor of critical teacher education in the Texas A&M College of Education and Human Development. She said that during the first 11 years of desegregation, after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that found separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional, more than 45,000 black teachers lost their jobs.