Framingham State to receive $1.7M for bilingual teaching residents program
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Framingham State University campus
Framingham State University announced on Thursday that it will receive $1.7 million over three years to fund a residency program in the city’s public schools from the Boston-based Massachusetts Service Alliance, a nonprofit state affiliate of the federal agency, AmeriCorps.
The remaining funding will be provided by FSU and Framingham Public Schools including Title I funding. Title I is a federal program that provides funding for children from low-income families, according to a Framingham State press release.
The Framingham Teacher Residency AmeriCorps Program aims to recruit teachers from bilingual and underrepresented backgrounds to Framingham Public Schools, where for half of the students English is not their first language, according to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Also, 80% of Framingham public school teachers identify as white, while more than half of students do not.
Starting in the fall, participants will be placed in Fuller Middle School and Cameron Middle School, which are Title I schools that are developing dual-language programs.
The program is open to undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate students, as well as paraprofessionals in the Framingham Public School system.
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