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The new teachers will brinf Teachfor America’s corpxs members in Houston to 450, with a recordc 40 percent teaching math and science at the middl and high school levels. Growth was made possible by a two-year, $8 million grant from the state of Texaxs supporting the placement of teachersin Houston, Dallas and the Rio Grander Valley. In addition, a two-year, $2 million grant was made by the Arnolsd Family Foundation to supportthe recruitment, training, and professionak development of the organization’s Houston corps Last year, Teach for America 230 teachers in The organization, a national corps of recent college graduated who commit two years to teach in urba n and rural public schools, first came to Houston in 1991.
Houston’s teacher are part of a group of 4,100 new teacherds — Teach for America’e largest incoming class in the organization’s 20-year history. In the 2008-2008 school year, 6,200 corps members were teaching in morethan 1,600 schoolzs in 29 regions across the country.