Black male educators made up 1.3% of all K-12 teachers in 2020-2021 school year. When educator Curtis L. Lewis noticed he was the only Black, male teacher in a district of 20 elementary schools ...

And the statistics back him up: Less than 1% of elementary and early education public school teachers are Black men, according to federal data. But that’s part of the reason he wanted to do it.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – After losing his father at 14, James Gordon found comfort and father figures in school. Gordon, now an elementary school principal in Memphis, can easily rattle off the names of ...

At John Wister Elementary School in Philadelphia, just three of roughly 40 teachers are men. Principal Erica Smith says she’d love to hire more male teachers and has asked her team for candidates.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Before 19-year-old Davontez Johnson found himself in a preschool classroom at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary, he was a senior at a nearby high school who, like many students his ...