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Troops-to-Teachers

This program supports efforts to improve public education by awarding grants to State organizations that recruit, prepare, and support eligible former military personnel as they become certified, highly qualified teachers in high-need public 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.
  • This program addresses a compelling need by tapping into a population of well-trained professionals, with superior content knowledge in fields such as math and science, to serve in high-need schools. These schools typically have shortages of highly qualified teachers, especially in the critical fields of math, science, and special education.
  • This program has improved its data collection and management by setting targets and collecting high-quality baseline data for its new performance measures, as well as displaying this information on the program's webpage.
  • The Department of Education has established an efficiency measure that tracks the recruitment cost per teacher of record supported by Troops-to-Teachers funding.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Working in collaboration with the Department of Defense to strengthen program performance data collection.
  • Addressing statutory obstacles that limit the program's ability to recruit participants to economically diverse high schools in need of highly qualified math and science teachers.
  • Examining data on State implementation of the program to determine if cost efficiencies can be achieved.

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