By Cherranda Smith
Mar 1, 2021
On Thursday (February 25), the Center for Black Educator Development announced its $3 million initiative to get more Black teachers in classrooms across the nation.
The Philly-based organization’s program goal is to get at least 21,000 Black high school and college students into a pipeline to become teachers over the next 12 years through its Black Educators of Excellence Fellowship Program.
Sharif El-Mekki, the Center’s founder, told
The Philadelphia Inquirer inspiring Black teachers is a necessary component of the mission, “they are worthy, and they are worthy of our youth,” he said. “That is a message, a key component, that is not always offered to our youth.”
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