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Teacher recruitment efforts and funding allocation
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the $10 million allocated for teacher recruitment and its utilization. First Deputy Chancellor Daniel Weisberg provides details on the recruitment efforts and their importance.
- About half of the funding went to the New York City Teaching Fellows program
- Funding was used to hire about 300 peer recruiters, an effective method for recruiting teachers for harder-to-staff schools
- The NYC Teaching Fellows program, which subsidizes tuition for master's degrees, is considered the most effective recruiting tool for shortage areas and hard-to-staff schools
- Weisberg emphasizes that they cannot afford to lose this funding, especially given the need to hire additional teachers to comply with the state's class size law
Rita Joseph
4:02:06
Teacher recruitment.
4:02:08
The 10,000,000 I know deputy first deputy chancellor, we spoke about that.
4:02:13
10,000,000 for teacher recruitment is being utilized this year.
4:02:16
What type of recruitment efforts has this funded?
Daniel Weisberg
4:02:20
Yeah.
4:02:21
It's been critical, chair, for the recruitment of of 5,000 or so pedagogues that we hired teachers and other pedagogues.
4:02:31
So about half of it went for our New York City Teaching Fellows, which as you know is a major source of talent for, particularly for shortage areas and for our harder to staff schools.
4:02:48
But you know, we we also use that funding for peer recruiters, which we find to be a really effective, innovative method of doing recruiting, again, particularly for our harder to staff schools.
4:03:05
Having a teacher in the school who is getting paid to help recruit has been really effective.
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So we used the funding to hire about 300 of those.
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And then and then there's been a couple of other activities.
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But the the main thing is, as you know, chair, the most effective recruiting tool that we have, again, for shortage areas, hard of staff schools, is fellows where we are subsidizing their tuition for their master's degree.
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So that's a very, very effective incentive.
4:03:38
And a lion's share of the $10,000,000 went for that type of investment, which we know we can show has a yield.
4:03:46
We can show for sure.
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We know how many, you know, the numbers in our all served programs, how they go up when we when we are able to fund them at at higher levels.
Rita Joseph
4:03:56
Given the need to hire additional teachers to comply with the state's class size law, do you believe you can afford to lose this funding?
Daniel Weisberg
4:04:04
Absolutely not.
Rita Joseph
4:04:05
Absolutely not.
Daniel Weisberg
4:04:07
Absolutely not.
4:04:08
I mean, in fact, we have a need for greater funding in order to have a chance to meet meet the requirements of the law.
Rita Joseph
4:04:20
Thank you for not being shy about that.