Black Men Teach and the College of Education and Human Development aim to recruit more Black male teachers to Minnesota.

Black male teachers embody this ideal ... found that Black students who had at least one Black teacher in elementary school were 13% likelier to enroll in college and 39% less likely to drop ...

Moss said the "Dear Colleague" leads him to question how the work to recruit and retain Black male teachers will get done, given what appears to be a "lack of support" for it at the federal level.