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We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to join Teach For America’s staff and play a critical role in our seffort to eliminate our nation’s academic achievement gap.
Since our founding in 1990, Teach For America has become one of the leading interventions in public education and has built a pipeline of leaders committed to educational equity and excellence. This year, 6,200 teachers (called corps members) are teaching in 29 urban and rural areas across the country, collectively reaching approximately 400,000 students. At the same time, more than 14,000 Teach For America alumni are working within education and from every field to effect fundamental change.
Teach For America staff members have a direct impact on our ability to reach our ambitious goals. We are nearing the end of a 2010 growth plan and setting goals for 2015 to dramatically increase our immediate and long-term impact. We look to grow the scale and diversity of our corps, increase the impact our corps members have on student achievement, and build a leadership force of alumni. At the same time, we aim to build an enduring American institution so that we can thrive as long as the needs we are addressing persist. Reaching these goals will enable us to realize the potential of our mission.
Currently, we have close to 1,200 full-time staff members working to attain our vision of educational equity. While approximately 50 percent of our staff members are Teach For America alumni, fully half – from support staff to senior management – bring a range of outside experiences and perspectives to the organization. Our staff includes experienced professionals from both nonprofit and for-profit organizations, advanced degree holders and recent college graduates, and individuals from the education sector as well as from many other professional backgrounds. At this time, close to one third of our staff members identify as people of color, and we are working aggressively to increase our diversity even more.
Approximately 55% of our staff members work on national teams and 45% work on one of our 29 regional teams. And of our national staff, half are based in our national office in New York City, while the other half enjoy the flexibility of working out of one of one of our regional offices or out of their homes.
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