Philadelphia Front Page News TV-Radio News In Brief: Philly School District pre-apprenticeship program aims to interest more students of color in teaching Forward news by KYW Newsradio frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
Above: Parkway West High School in West Philly celebrating a pre-apprenticeship state-funded program for its students.
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The School District of Philadelphia
wants to get more students of color interested in teaching careers —
and is making an effort to train them through a new state-funded
program.
Parkway West High School in West Philly has a pre-apprenticeship for students looking to get hands-on training in early childhood education, as well as a Black male teacher training cohort.
The programs have about 40 participating students and have been bolstered by a $400,000 grant from the Shapiro administration.
“Not only are they helping the young person that they’re working with, that they’re tutoring, it also helps their reading levels grow, their math levels grow at the same time,” said Christopher Goins, president and CEO of Philadelphia Academies, a nonprofit helping to facilitate the programs.
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