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Sachs Foundation and Teach For America Team up to Deliver Funds and Support to Black Educators in Colorado, Addressing the Black Teacher Shortage 1024 683 Sachs Foundation

Sachs Foundation and Teach For America Team up to Deliver Funds and Support to Black Educators in Colorado, Addressing the Black Teacher Shortage

Partnership Delivers Financial Resources and Peer Networking Capabilities to Recruit More Black Educators to Teach in Colorado Schools, Improving the Number of Black Applicants by 150%. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Sachs Foundation, an organization that has supported Black Coloradans since 1931, and Teach For America (TFA) Colorado, the state branch…

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Sachs Foundation And Teach For America Team Up To Address Black Teacher Shortage

By Marybeth Gasman, Contributor, Forbes.com Research shows that the presence of just one African American teacher in grades 3-5 increases low-income, African American boys’ interest in college by 29% and lowers the high school drop-out rate by 39%. Unfortunately, the number of African American teachers in the U.S. has been in decline since public schools…

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