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Pennsylvania Educators Diversity Consortium
Increasing Educator Diversity in Pennsylvania
What is PEDC?
We are advocates from across Pennsylvania who aim to increase the number of educators of color and culturally relevant and sustaining educators leading schools and classrooms across the Commonwealth.
The Numbers Don't Lie...
Only 6% of Pennsylvania's teachers are people of color...
6%
In 2020-2021, 48% of public schools in Pennsylvania...
48%
0.8%
Pennsylvania increased its % of teachers of color...
Cabral, L., Eddins, M., Lapp, D., and Nelson, S. (2022). The Need for More Teachers of Color. Philadelphia, PA: Research for Action.
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