Assistance program
Transition to Teaching
-$2.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2019
- Agency
- Oii - Office of Innovation and Improvement, Education, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 84.350
- What it does
- To recruit and retain highly qualified midcareer professionals (including highly qualified paraprofessionals) and recent graduates of institutions of higher education, as teachers in high-need schools, including by recruiting teachers through alternative routes to teacher certification and licensure; and to encourage the development and expansion of alternative routes to certification and licensure under State-approved programs that enable individuals to be eligible for teacher certification and licensure within a reduced period of time, relying on the experience, expertise, and academic qualifications of an individual or other factors in lieu of traditional course work in the field of education.
- Who benefits
- Eligible participants must be mid-career professionals from various fields who possess strong subject-matter skills to become teachers, including paraprofessionals with two years of classroom experience and postsecondary education or demonstrated competence in a field for which there is a significant shortage of qualified teachers; recent college graduates. In order to teach in secondary schools, eligible participants also need a major or equivalent in the academic subjects that the individuals will teach. Schools in which the participants must teach are high-need schools operated by high-need LEAs.
- Who applies
- State educational agencies; high-need local educational agencies; for-profit and nonprofit organizations with proven records of effectively recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers, in partnership with high-need local educational agencies or State educational agencies; institutions of higher education, in partnerships with high-need local educational agencies or State educational agencies; regional consortia of State educational agencies; and consortia of high-need LEAs.
- Authorized by
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended, Title II, Part C, Subpart 1, Chapter B. (Struck by P.L. 114-95)
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