The Arizona Department of Education received a $300,000 grant to address the state’s teacher shortage.
The department will receive the money over the next two years from the nonprofit Ascendium Education Group. The money will go toward expanding the department’s teacher apprenticeship program, including supporting 100 apprentices.
The money will help pay teachers and train them, Tom Horne, the Arizona superintendent of public instruction, told The Center Square on Thursday.
Horne said the apprenticeship program is one of numerous alternative pathways through which people can become a teacher in Arizona.
Such pathways allow people who are “knowledgeable and want to teach” to become teachers, he added.
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