Black teachers lost employment ground while White teachers gained employment ground in Kentucky's public schools between 1953-54 and 1983-84. The number of Black teachers rose by 181 while the number of White teachers rose by 13,672, an average net increase of one Black teacher for every 76 White teachers. The percentage of Black teachers declined steadily, from 6.8 percent to 4.5 percent. (If not for the Jefferson County Public Schools, which employed 400 more Black teachers during 1984 than the Jefferson County and Louisville districts combined during 1954, the number of Blacks teaching in Kentucky's public schools would have declined by 219.) The Black teacher gap grew enormously, from 96 more Black teachers than needed to reach parity between the percentages of Black teachers and students to a shortfall of 1,445 Black teachers. In addition between 1978-79 and 1983-84, Kentucky's public school districts reduced the number of Black teachers for the first time, allowed the percentage of Black teachers to decline over five times more than the percentage decline of White teachers, and allowed the Black teacher gap to rise to the highest level of any school year in this report. And finally, the Jefferson County Public Schools lost more Black teachers than all of the state's other school districts combined during the five-year period. (Author/CMG)