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��������’s School of Education (SoE) is the recipient of a $2.4 million grant from New York state to expand its existing (NYCTF) alternative certification program.

The expanded program, Education Workforce Investment, aims to address current teacher shortages in (NYCPS) by training and placing these new teachers in high-need subject areas and in high-need NYCPS classrooms. The grant will also provide increased financial aid academic support for those students to ease their entry into full-time teaching careers, and to promote retention and long-term success.

The high-need subject areas, as identified by SoE partners NYCPS and NYCTF, are students with disabilities, bilingual childhood education, and secondary Spanish for grades seven through 12. Since launching its alternative certification program in 2000, SoE and its partners hosted 4,651 Teaching Fellows pursuing certification in these areas.

Candidates for the Fellowships . The NYCTF will select approved candidates to be considered for this program by the SoE, which will select those who will benefit from this grant based on merit, financial need, and readiness. As many as 80 candidates will be selected for two cohorts of 40, each to start in the summer of 2026 and 2027.

After summertime pre-service training, the Fellows will be assigned to a classroom in a school community that is committed to preparing new teachers and to serving historically marginalized communities. They continue to work toward their master’s degrees and to work as full-time teachers in the schools that hired them. They also receive support in the form of advisement from academic advisors, program directors and faculty, as well as full funding for the duration of their participation. They also receive stipends for additional expenses and opportunities to attend certification exam preparation workshops.

It is expected that, by the end of Year Three, 40 candidates will have completed graduate programs leading to initial certification in students with disabilities, bilingual childhood education, and secondary Spanish (grades 7-12). By the end of Year Four, the expectation is that 40 additional candidates will have met this goal.

“This grant will afford the CCNY School of Education the opportunity to continue to prepare educators who are committed to diversity and democracy,” said CCNY School of Education Dean Edwin M. Lamboy. “This has been at the core of the work the School of Education has done for over 100 years, and it is still as important as ever.”

Currently, more than 9,000 New York City Teaching Fellows work in the city’s schools. Six hundred Fellows serve as principals, assistant principals, or other instructional administrators, including , M.A. ’10.