Tata’s minority hiring plan slammed
Wake County Schools Superintendent Tony Tata is facing a backlash over his efforts to increase the number of minority teachers in the state’s largest school district.
Over the past week, critics have bashed Tata online and on local talk radio with allegations that his recruitment efforts would weaken teacher quality. Tata fired back Friday by arguing that expanding Wake’s recruitment efforts to reach out more to groups who’ve been underrepresented in the past will improve educational quality.
“We have been looking for high-quality teachers first and foremost, and we’ve been looking for them in a broader range of places,” Tata said at a news conference. “We have high standards for teacher recruitment, and we will not waver from those standards. And anyone who thinks I will lower standards doesn’t, quite frankly, know me very well.”
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