{"id":47544,"date":"2021-02-22T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47544"},"modified":"2021-02-22T23:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:06:17","slug":"why-are-blacks-significantly-underrepresented-in-the-entire-lee-county-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/02\/why-are-blacks-significantly-underrepresented-in-the-entire-lee-county-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are blacks significantly underrepresented in the entire Lee County School District?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lee County School District, NAACP sign settlement\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cnbD9zN2oBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OVERALL DISTRICT BY EMPLOYEE RACE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1460 black 13.16%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2300 hispanic 20.73%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 7172 white 64.65%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\/11092=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TRANSPORTATION ONLY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B 471 black employees 53.89%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B 187 hispanic employees 21.39%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B 206 white employees 23.56%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B\/874=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EXCLUDING TRANSPORTATION FROM OVERALL RACIAL MAKEUP OF THE DISTRICT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blacks 9.06%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hispanic 20.68%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whites 68.18%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A-B divided by 11092-874-= The question is why are blacks significantly overrepresented in transportation. Or, to put it another way. Why are blacks significantly underrepresented in the entire district?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVERALL DISTRICT BY EMPLOYEE RACE A 1460 black 13.16% A 2300 hispanic 20.73% A 7172 white 64.65% A\/11092= TRANSPORTATION ONLY B 471 black employees 53.89% B 187 hispanic employees 21.39%&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}