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Transition to Teaching

This program is intended to facilitate the movement of talented mid-career professionals, including paraprofessionals and recent college graduates, into K-12 classrooms. The program awards competitive grants to support programs that recruit, train, and place these new teachers in high-need schools.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program addresses a compelling need. However, while it is well-targeted on high-poverty schools and districts that have difficulty recruiting highly qualified teachers, some statutory and administrative obstacles prevent the program from supporting more innovative alternative certification programs.
  • The program has three annual/long-term performance measures. Given the recent revision of these measures, not enough data are available to assess program performance.
  • Currently program performance data are posted on the web in an aggregated format. Grantee-level data are not available to the public.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Addressing administrative and statutory obstacles, such as restrictive poverty and teacher requirements and inadequate financial incentives.
  • Using the Transition to Teaching comprehensive database of well-defined, key data points to inform technical assistance to grantees and funding recommendations.
  • Presenting program performance information to the public in a more transparent manner and using that information to guide management improvements.

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