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'GRANT US THE SUN': WHAT BLACK TEACHERS NEED.

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      Schools retained white teachers at the expense of Black teachers, ultimately leading to widespread job loss among the Black teacher population (Irvine & Irvine, 2007). WHAT EDUCATORS WANT WHAT EDUCATORS WANT For Black Americans, education has always been an avenue toward liberation. Billy, for example, said that he wanted teachers to be able to focus on imagination, and several teachers said that they wanted to be able to spend more time on the creativity and love that made them enjoy being teachers. A reckoning with anti-Blackness in schools Amid growing concerns around teacher shortages broadly, Black teachers have expressed, and statistics have shown, that they are more likely than teachers from other racialized groups to leave the profession earlier than they intended (Walker, 2022). [Extracted from the article]