'High-needs' schools get 75 new teachers
Rocky Mountain News
Published May 14, 2008 at 11 p.m.
A nonprofit group that recruits and trains teachers for "high-needs" public schools announced Tuesday it will place 75 new teachers in Denver Public Schools this fall, a 29 percent increase over last year.
Teach for America gathers recent college graduates who commit to teaching two years in the poorest urban and rural school districts.
The new group brings the total of Teach for America faculty in Denver to 125 first- and second-grade teachers. Teach for America officials credited groups such as the Daniels Fund, the Piton Foundation, the JFM Foundation and others for providing support to make the increase possible.
The first group of Teach for America teachers arrived in Denver last fall. They are drawn from a pool of 3,700 college graduates who entered the corps. The growth in Denver also drew heavily from local colleges and universities.
At the University of Colorado at Boulder, 120 seniors applied for the program, as did 7 percent of the graduating class at Colorado College.
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