Teach For America

Teach For America works in partnership with communities to expand educational opportunity for children facing the challenges of poverty. Founded in 1990, Teach For America recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding individuals of all academic disciplines and professional backgrounds to commit two years to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the movement to end educational inequity. Today more than 11,000 corps members are teaching in nearly 50 urban and rural regions across the country, while nearly 32,000 alumni are working across sectors to ensure that all children have access to an excellent education. Teach For America is committed to having a teacher corps that is rich in diversity—ethnic, socioeconomic, gender and diversity of experiences—to ensure the greatest impact on the students our corps members teach. Students and whole schools will greatly benefit from veterans’ depth of experience, strength in leadership and desire to continue to serve their country. This year over 100 teachers with military experience are serving as Teach For America corps members and we expect this number will continue to grow.