Lavar Edmonds

ALT Title page of the job market paper "Losing Recipes: Black Teacher Displacement and the Long Shadow of Desegregation" by Lavar Edmonds, Stanford University, with its abstract. Summary of the abstract: between the 1960s and early 1980s, thousands of Black teachers were displaced as school districts desegregated and Black schools closed. Comparing districts under court orders with comparable districts without them, after an order Black schools were 10 percentage points more likely than White schools to close, districts that closed more Black schools lost more Black teachers, and ordered districts hired a smaller share of Black teachers. Four decades later, the Black share of teachers in court-ordered counties is about 30% lower, early-career Black women graduates there rank 8 to 11 percentiles lower in earnings, HBCUs granted fewer teaching degrees, and districts that closed more Black schools employ fewer Black principals.