The state funded program provides a year of tuition for education students at public community colleges and universities in exchange for each year of teaching in an Arizona public school.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — A first-term state lawmaker wants to expand the Teachers Academy program provides scholarships to prospective public school teachers to students attending private and religious colleges.
People are also reading… Members of the district governing board voted in February not to approve a new agreement to allow ACU students to work as student teachers after some board members expressed concern about the policies of the university on marriage. He said, though, there is no reason to exclude ACU students from the Teachers Academy program — or from continuing to be student teachers in the district.
What Gress wants to do is expand scholarship eligibility to students attending private colleges offering education degrees. Meredith Critchfield, GCU's dean of the college of education, told lawmakers her school's program can help fill the ongoing need. And what that means, she said, is having oversight over the programs to ensure they are training as many teachers as want to be in the program.Gress acknowledged the waiting lists. And he said his measure isn't meant to take away from the money already allocated to public universities but to add money to it for the students at private schools.
"We must prioritize our public universities," she said, if the state is to fill the need for more teachers in Arizona schools.
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