Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce (DWD) on Monday announced $1 million in grants to three nonprofit groups — including the Urban League of Greater Madison — through the Teacher Training and Recruitment Grant Program. The program supports efforts to train and recruit teachers where shortages are most prevalent in Wisconsin.
These grants, which are part of DWD’s Expanded Wisconsin Fast Forward (WFF) program, cover two years of program costs to help recruit, train and license teachers to meet the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s guidelines for serving qualifying school districts.
In this round of grants, the Urban League of Greater Madison was awarded $481,540. The organization is working with the Madison Metropolitan School District, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College to support the Urban Educator Cohort Pathway program with grant funding. This program will recruit, train, mentor and place 42 licensed teachers in the high-need areas of special education and English as a second language bilingual education. Recruits will earn credits toward their licenses at the UW-Madison School of Education or Edgewood College.
Other grant awardees include:
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Center for Urban Teaching — $297,173; and
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Teach for America — $221,287.
