Post by pavel on Jan 28, 2016 4:49:02 GMT -6
Teach for America will increase its teacher numbers in Arkansas by more than 200 and expand the districts it serves to include the Little Rock School District with $6 million from the state and private donors, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Wednesday.
The 25-year-old organization recruits and trains recent college graduates who have degrees in fields other than education to be teachers for two years in the nation's high-poverty communities. The organization, which is currently supporting about 110 corps members in the state, has placed teachers in the state's Delta region for more than two decades. Those teachers have worked largely in Lee, Phillips, Chicot, Jefferson and Union counties.
Hutchinson said at a news conference Wednesday that he will draw $3 million from the governor's executive discretionary fund to add as many as 150 Teach for America corps members who will serve as many as 9,000 students in eastern and southern Arkansas school districts where 86 percent or more of the students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals, which is an indication of low family income.
At the same time, he said, central Arkansas businessmen -- led by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. and Haskell L. Dickinson II of the Trinity Foundation -- have raised another $3 million to support 65 Teach for America corps members to be employed in the Little Rock district, which has not previously employed Teach for America corps members. Those teachers would serve about 4,000 students in the 24,000-student district.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jan/28/6m-from-state-gifts-to-fund-200-teacher/
The 25-year-old organization recruits and trains recent college graduates who have degrees in fields other than education to be teachers for two years in the nation's high-poverty communities. The organization, which is currently supporting about 110 corps members in the state, has placed teachers in the state's Delta region for more than two decades. Those teachers have worked largely in Lee, Phillips, Chicot, Jefferson and Union counties.
Hutchinson said at a news conference Wednesday that he will draw $3 million from the governor's executive discretionary fund to add as many as 150 Teach for America corps members who will serve as many as 9,000 students in eastern and southern Arkansas school districts where 86 percent or more of the students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals, which is an indication of low family income.
At the same time, he said, central Arkansas businessmen -- led by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. and Haskell L. Dickinson II of the Trinity Foundation -- have raised another $3 million to support 65 Teach for America corps members to be employed in the Little Rock district, which has not previously employed Teach for America corps members. Those teachers would serve about 4,000 students in the 24,000-student district.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jan/28/6m-from-state-gifts-to-fund-200-teacher/