Troops to Teachers Filling Jobs
Also see: Troops to Teachers Gains Top-Level Support (09/10/01)
We have a teacher shortage in America. Military downsizing has left many former military personnel unemployed. Idea: Let's turn troops into teachers! Sometimes, this government thing really works.
With budget-cutting military personnel level reductions getting under way in 1994, Congress established the Troops to Teachers program to assist affected military personnel and civilian employees of the Departments of Defense and Energy in finding new careers in public education.
Troops to Teachers provides referral assistance and placement services to service members and civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are interested in working as teacher or teacher's aides.
Since its inception, Troops to Teachers has proven itself a win-win situation for both military and civilian personnel displaced by military reductions and for America's public education system. Program benefits to impacted personnel are obvious -- jobs. At the same time, teacher shortages are relieved by filling classrooms with mature, motivated, experienced and dedicated educators already trained in providing positive role models. Growing demands for teachers in the subjects of math and science have been particularly well filled by Troops to Teachers participants.
The Troops-to-Teachers Program Improvement Act of 1999 contains provisions to enhance the program by providing for stipends to retirees to help pay for teacher certification programs, maintain the program's network of state offices, and continue the placement assistance and referral services.
Referral and placement assistance through Troops to Teachers is open to all military and Coast Guard personnel, veterans, reserve personnel, Department of Defense and Department of Energy civilian employees separated since October 1, 1990. A bachelor's degree from an accredited college is required for persons interested in teaching academic subjects. Those interested teaching vocational subjects such as electronics, computers and construction trades do not need a college degree to apply, but must be able to prove their skill level.
For more information about the Troops to Teachers program call the DANTES toll-free number at 1-800-452-6616; visit the program Web site at http://www.dantes.doded.mil/dantes_web/troopstoteachers/index.htm?Flag=True; or write to the Defense Activity of Non-traditional Education Support, 6490 Saufley Field Road, Pensacola, Florida 32509-5243.
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