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Transition to Teaching

This program is intended to facilitate the movement of mid-career professionals, highly qualified paraprofessionals, and recent college graduates into K-12 classrooms. It awards competitive grants to projects that recruit, train, place, and support these new teachers in high-need schools in high-need school districts.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program addresses a compelling need. It targets high-poverty schools and districts that have difficulty recruiting highly qualified teachers, although some statutory and administrative obstacles prevent the program from supporting more innovative alternative certification programs.
  • The program has demonstrated improvements in performance achieving annual and long-term goals. The program has three performance measures and two efficiency measures, and each cohort of grantees has shown, to a large extent, improvements each year in each measure.
  • Data are available to the public in a transparent and meaningful manner. Aggregate and grantee-level performance and efficiency data are posted on the Department's Transition to Teaching program website.

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.
  • Developing and completing an OMB-approved data collection package for consistent data-gathering from grantees, and using these results to produce stronger interim and final program evaluations.

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