In a new effort to enhance the teacher pipeline and promote greater diversity within the teaching profession across Baltimore County’s public schools, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski and Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) announced the award of a $1 million grant to support the creation of a new Diverse Teacher Recruitment Scholarship: Growing Our Own for BCPS program.
“Every child deserves to grow up with role models and mentors who look like them,” said Baltimore County Executive Olszewski in the news release. “Diversity is our strength in Baltimore County and the new recruitment scholarship will support students from across the county and make our school system stronger and more vibrant.”
“This new scholarship program will help to attract and retain more high-quality teachers to Team BCPS and create a more diverse and responsive teaching corps in our schools, one that can inspire those they teach as well as inform the instruction children receive,” said BCPS Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers (Yarbrough) in the release. “The research is clear -- a diverse, multicultural teaching force, one that reflects the community, pays dividends far into the future both for the teachers themselves and also, crucially, for the children they teach. We commend and thank County Executive Olszewski for making this important program a reality. As a former teacher himself, he understands the value of a program like this for Baltimore County’s future.”
Like jurisdictions across the country, BCPS continues to experience a shortage of teachers who are black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), and women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content areas.... Read More: FOX45
