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Nearly 30 percent of Hamilton County teachers are considered least effective by state measures, and many of these teachers are in the district’s predominantly poor and minority classrooms.
Hamilton County has almost three times the number of least-effective teachers than the state average, and twice as many least-effective teachers as Knox, Metro Nashville and Shelby County Schools.
The statistics highlight how many of Hamilton County’s minority and poor students do not have equal access to the district’s best teachers, as the schools they attend typically employ larger shares of least-effective teachers and are among the district’s lowest performing. Decades of research show that teachers are the most important in-school factor for boosting academic growth.
“If we are actually going to close the achievement gap or equity gap that we have and create more opportunity for all students, then we have to have highly effective teachers in front of our students that are farthest behind,” said Candice McQueen, Tennessee’s education commissioner.