profession of institutional racism
There are just 30 black male headteachers in England's 21,600 state schools,
official figures obtained by the Guardian show, triggering accusations that
the country's education system is "institutionally racist".
The Department for Education (DfE) revealed that there are 20 black Caribbean
or black African male heads in state nurseries and primaries and 10 in
secondary schools. There are none in special schools.
The figures from November last year ? which do not include academies and which
are the latest available ? show there are 127 black female headteachers,
meaning that one in every 125 heads is a black man or woman.
Headteachers are overwhelmingly white ? some 94.7% are white British. Just
0.7% are black Caribbean or black African, despite these ethnic groups making
up 2% of England's population.
Black people are also under-represented among those that have not yet made it
to senior leadership posts in schools ? 89.3% of teachers in England's
maintained schools are white British, while 1.5% are black Caribbean or black
African, the statistics reveal.
Marva Rollins, headteacher of Raynham primary school in Enfield, north London,
predicted that it would ...
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