Black Teachers Matter

America’s schools desperately need educators like Darlene Lomax. So why are we driving them away?

By KRISTINA RIZGA 

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Principal Darlene Lomax
Principal Darlene Lomax

On February 19, 2013, Darlene Lomax was in the weekly faculty leadership meeting at Fairhill Elementary, a 126-year-old school in a historic Puerto Rican neighborhood of Philadelphia where she served as principal. A counselor was giving his report, but Lomax couldn’t hear what he said. She just stared at her computer screen, frozen, as she read a letter from the school superintendent. She read it again and again to make sure she understood what it said.

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