The La. “Teaching Authorization”: Potentially Teach for Life With No Ed Degree– But There’s a Catch
On September 09, 2019, the Hechinger Report published an article entitled, “A New Teacher Vows to Help in a Classroom Full of Need: ‘Under the Right Conditions, They’d Be Stars.'”
The article features a teaching intern who is part of the Norman C. Francis Teacher Residency, an alternative teacher certification program specifically aimed at recruiting individuals who already hold a bachelors degree in another area to agree to teach three years beyond an initial “residency year” at an assigned New Orleans charter school in exchange for roughly $29K in residency-year financial assistance toward earning a masters degree in education.
From the site’s “about” page:
Who we are
The Residency is a first-of-its-kind partnership not only in New Orleans, but nationally.
- Partners. Xavier University of Louisiana, New Schools for New Orleans, and charter school networks across New Orleans. Our school partners for the 2019-20 school year include Arise Schools, Audubon Schools, Crescent City Schools, Elan Academy, FirstLine Schools, Foundation Preparatory Charter School, KIPP New Orleans Schools, Lake Forest Charter, Morris Jeff Community School, and ReNew Schools. We are continuing to add school partners for the upcoming school year and beyond.
And from the “what to expect” page:
Residency Year 1
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