Public schools in Massachusetts are closed for at least the next two weeks, very likely longer. But when they do reopen, one persistent problem will remain: a shortage of teachers and administrators of color.
Covered in tattoos, wearing shorts in December, special education teacher Norman Pacheco said he doesn’t fit the typical teacher stereotype.
“I’m half Chicano and half Native American,” Pacheco said. “I’m a nice caramel-brown. So, you know, I definitely stick out in a building.”
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