“The loss of federal funding will hinder efforts to address educational disparities and reduce the pipeline of teachers equipped to serve diverse student populations,” Stanley Johnson Jr., senior project scientist at UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools and lead author of the research brief released in late August, said in a statement.
“This will disproportionately impact teachers of color, leading to the teacher population becoming less diverse, and school districts will face increased challenges in recruitment, retention, and innovative practices,” Johnson said.
In California, for example, these cuts meant the loss of a $7.5 million grant to California State University, Los Angeles that was being used to certify 276 teachers to serve in high-need or high-poverty schools in the Los Angeles and Pasadena Unified School Districts, as well as an $8.5 million grant to a Chico State University teacher residency program that prepares teachers to serve in high-poverty and hard-to-staff rural communities.
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