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The Teach For Florida Project: A Case Study Of Alternative Route Certification Policy, Robert Todd Parrish
The Teach For Florida Project: A Case Study Of Alternative Route Certification Policy, Robert Todd Parrish
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This study examined the policy implementation of the Teach for Florida Project, which was conducted as a grant program in 2003. The project was designed to help alleviate a critical shortage of teachers brought about in part by the passage in the fall of 2002 of Florida Constitutional Amendment 9, a referendum setting specific limits on the number of students who could be taught by one teacher. The project was created and run on a tight timeline, allowing only 6 months from initiation of the request for proposals to placement of new alternatively prepared teachers in their classrooms. Despite the …