Henrico Schools will launch a “Grow Your Own” teacher apprenticeship program next school year, aiming to provide more full-time teachers for the division’s “hard-to-staff” schools. The Virginia Department of Education announced in February that it would contribute [post_excerpt].52 million in grants to support teacher apprenticeship programs in 24 different school divisions for the 2024-2025 school year, funding a total of 165 teacher apprentices to help reduce the state’s teacher shortages. By covering tuition for teacher candidates in the programs, the VDOE and the partnering school divisions hope to generate a bigger local pool of qualified teachers by eliminating the financial...Article LinkSupport the show