The Ed Fund recently announced that it was awarded a highly competitive United States Department of Education Transition to Teaching grant to support Philadelphia Teacher Residency. This is a five-year, $2.2 million award.
The United States Department of Education’s Transition to Teaching program provides five-year grants to state and local education agencies, for-profit organizations, non-profit organizations, or institutions of higher education collaborating with state or local education agencies that support recruitment, training, and placement of talented individuals from other fields into teaching positions in K-12 classrooms.
PTR offers dynamic, high-energy science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals the knowledge, experience, and tools to teach the high need subjects of math and science in grades 6-12 in Philadelphia public schools.
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