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Message Creation Date was at 21-JAN-1999 08:44:00
PRESIDENT CLINTON AND VICE PRESIDENT GORE UNVEIL INITIATIVES TO HELP
PROVIDE A
QUALIFIED TEACHER IN EVERY CLASSROOM
January 21, 1999
In his State of the Union Address, President Clinton called on states and
school districts to ensure that new teachers meet state certification
requirements, pass performance exams, and have a major or minor in the
subject
they teach. Today, President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and the First
Lady
will announce several initiatives to help schools meet these objectives
and to
attract talented, well-prepared teachers into our classrooms. These
initiatives include: (1) a second installment on the presidentD!,s class
size
reduction initiative, which increases funding by $200 million and enables
local
schools to hire an additional 8,000 teachers; (2) $35 million in funding
-- up
from $7.5 million this year -- to provide scholarships to 7,000 outstanding
students who commit to teaching in high-poverty public schools; (3) an $18
million initiative to extend the Troops-to-Teachers program to train and
place
more than 3,000 retired military personnel as new teachers in public
schools,
especially in high-need subject areas like math and science and in
high-poverty
schools; and (4) a new $10 million initiative to begin recruiting and
training
1,000 Native American teachers who commit to teach in schools with high
concentrations of Native American students.
Hiring 100,000 well-prepared teachers to reduce class size in the early
grades. President Clinton will ask for $1.4 billion in his FY 2000
budget, a
$200 million increase over FY 1999 funding, for his initiative to hire
100,000
teachers to reduce class size in grades 1-3 to a national average of 18.
This
increase will enable local schools to recruit, hire, and train an
additional
8,000 teachers, while continuing to pay for the 30,000 teachers hired with
FY
1999 funds. To ensure that this initiative supports high-quality teaching,
school districts may spend up to 15 percent of these funds for teacher
training
and other related activities. Studies show that smaller classes enable
teachers to give personal attention to students, which leads to their
getting a
stronger foundation in the basic skills. The studies also show that
minority
and disadvantaged students show the greatest achievement gains as a result
of
reducing class size in the early grades.
Recruiting Outstanding New Teachers for High-Poverty Schools. Poorand
minority students often have the least access to well-prepared teachers:
for
example, students in schools with the highest minority enrollments have
less
than 50-percent chance of having a math or science teacher with a license
and
degree in the field. To address this challenge, the President will
propose $35
million -- up from $7.5 million this year -- to provide scholarships to
7,000
outstanding students who commit to teaching in high-poverty public schools.
These scholarships were first proposed by President Clinton last year and
enacted by Congress as part 9f the reauthorization of the Higher Education
Act.
preserving and Expanding the Troops to Teachers program. The successful
Troops
to Teachers program, which has helped 3,000 retiring military personnel
become
teachers in public schools since 1994, is scheduled to expire later this
year.
To preserve and build on this successful program, President Clinton will
propose $18 million to provide scholarships and
-more-
other support for training and placing in public schools more than 3,000
retiring military personnel and other mid-career professionals. The
initiative
would focus on recruiting and training new teachers for high-poverty
schools
and for high-need subject areas like math, science, foreign languages, or
special education.
Training and Recruiting New Native American Teachers. Only two-thirds of
Native American students successfully complete high school -- far fewer
than
other students. To address this challenge, the President is proposing $10
million to begin training and recruiting of 1000 new teachers for areas
with
high concentrations of American Indian and Alaska Native students.
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