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Newsradio 620 WTMJ is on Twitter now! Click Here to learn more. Teach For America Grads Head to MilwaukeeMILWAUKEE (AP) -- A nonprofit is bringing 90 college graduates to teach in Milwaukee's highest need schools in the next three years. Teach For America says it will provide at least 30 teachers to Milwaukee Public Schools this fall, with at least 30 more in each of the two following years. The high-profile program places top college graduates as teachers for at least two years in urban and rural schools. The group says it has 6,200 teachers in more than 1,600 schools across the country. Organization spokesman Steve Mancini says about $2.7 million has been committed to the Milwaukee effort and $450,000 over three years from MPS. More than 50 graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined the group last year, making it the third-largest source of members. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) |
      
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