A new teacher development grant program aimed at increasing the number of Black educators in the state of Colorado is offering Black students pursuing a career in education a $20,000 salary bonus and a full-funded master’s degree.
Just 2 percent of teachers in Colorado are Black, according to the state Department of Education, but a grant program from the Colorado-based Sachs Foundation aims to change that by recruiting and retaining Black educators from Colorado College.
The $575,000 grant will offer students at the college financial support as they enter the teaching profession.
“What we are doing is supplementing their salary for the first three years that they are teaching through a stipend which is a $10,000 stipend. We’re also recruiting them to be mentors in our elevator program which is a paid mentorship program which will fund them around another $10,000,” Ben Ralston, president of the Sachs Foundation, explained to Denver TV station KUSA.
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