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‘Will play a critical role in ensuring equity’
By Reagan Reese
Daily Caller News Foundation
The Department of Education (DOE) is giving about $25 million in grants to several universities to help them hire and train a “diverse educator workforce,” according to a Sept. 12 press release.
The DOE partnered with Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP), a group that works on preparing higher education faculty, to provide 22 new five-year grants to several universities, including three historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), according to the press release. The institutions receiving grants will work with TQP to “recruit highly qualified individuals, including individuals of color” for educator positions.
To qualify for the grants, universities must either demonstrate that the money will go to projects which will “increase educator diversity,” or “address identified teacher shortage areas” so they may “diversify the teacher pipeline,” according to the notice for applications. Universities can qualify for the grant if they propose projects which support teachers who have faced “inequity” in education.
