Plan Would Provide Free Housing, Mentoring for Prospective New York City Teachers
June 26, 2019
By: Amelia Harper
Source: Education Dive
Prospective teachers in New York City could receive a stipend for housing in addition to intense mentoring as part of a proposed year-long residency program that would target as many as 1,000 beginning educators and match them with mentor-teachers, New York Daily News reports.
The program would be intended to stem the tide of teachers who are leaving the classroom. According to a report by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, 41% of teachers hired to teach in the New York City Department of Education in the 2012-13 academic year were no longer teaching within five years and, in the 2017-18 school year, 20% of all teachers with fewer than five years’ experience left the classroom.
The program would also benefit mentor teachers who would receive a salary hike under the proposal for working with beginning teachers. Stringer estimates the proposal would cost about $40 million a year.