“Putting an effective teacher in front of every child is the most important thing we can do to accelerate student achievement and prepare all children for college and the careers available to them in the global marketplace,” said U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “Congresswoman Richardson’s support for education funding makes grants like these possible. The Teacher Quality Partnership Grants help to improve the quality of teaching in high-need schools by creating model teacher preparation programs and teaching residency programs. We appreciate her support.”

 

 “The last remaining viable job sectors in our nation depend heavily on math and science education, so it is vital that we have high-quality teachers available in every middle and high school to equip students with the knowledge they will need to get a job in an increasingly changing job skill set,” Congresswoman Richardson said. “This prestigious grant will help CSUDH ensure that we can relieve and hopefully eliminate the shortage of qualified and effective math and science teachers.”

 

CSUDH will use the funding to create an Urban Teacher Residency program, which will recruit, prepare, place and retain 120 highly qualified math and science teachers in high-need middle high schools in Los Angeles County. CSUDH will strengthen its teacher education curriculum to include strategies for English learners, students with special needs, content literacy and technology in the classroom. The end result will be highly qualified math and science teachers with skills matched to students’ needs.

 

 “On behalf of California State University, Dominguez Hills, I would like to thank Congresswoman Richardson for her support of the university in seeking this grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which will enable us to create a thirdpathway to teaching that could become a model for teacher training in the future,” said CSUDH President Mildred García. “This grant is indeed a feather in our cap and furthers our standing as an established leader in preparing exemplarymath and science teachers for teaching in the under-served, diverse urban schools of the Los Angeles region.

 

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Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Laura Richardson announced the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has awarded a $300,000 grant to California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) to expand graduate school opportunities for minority students.

 

“In California, in Los Angeles County and in the 37^th Congressional District, Hispanics account for 36.6 percent, 47.3 percent and 42 percent of our population, respectively,” Congresswoman Richardson said. “With huge educational challenges often due to language barriers, parental homework assistance and so on, difficulties continue to exist for the often first generation minority students. This grant makes possible a program that will serve as a gateway for them to enter a graduate school program, which should in turn increase their ability to work and benefit our communities.”

 

The DOE is funding the CSULB program through its Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, which focuses on projects that will expand graduate-level academic offerings at colleges with a significant number of Hispanic students. At CSULB, the grant will be used to develop and implement a teacher education graduate program at the university that will work to encourage increased enrollment in the program by Hispanic and other minority students and will also train its graduate students to be more responsive and aware to the diversity and needs of their own students once they are teachers.