{"id":21915,"date":"2014-04-28T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21915"},"modified":"2014-04-28T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:37:17","slug":"explaining-a-50-million-jacksonville-effort-to-recruit-and-retain-top-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/04\/28\/explaining-a-50-million-jacksonville-effort-to-recruit-and-retain-top-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining A $50 Million Jacksonville Effort To Recruit And Retain Top Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12582\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Teach for America teachers Samantha Sanacore, Eric Sweeney and Denali Lander. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/Teach-for-America.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12582\" alt=\"Teach for America teachers Samantha Sanacore, Eric Sweeney and Denali Lander. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/Teach-for-America-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/Teach-for-America-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/Teach-for-America.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Alicia Duplessis Jasmin \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teach for America teachers Samantha Sanacore, Eric Sweeney and Denali Lander.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jacksonville-area businesses and nonprofits are trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.wjct.org\/post\/quest-quality-part-i-laying-groundwork\">raise $50 million to help recruit and retain top teachers for three dozen of the district&#8217;s most challenged schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The effort, known as Quality Education for All, is intended to help improve schools that have been the center of education-related lawsuits for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The money will pay bonuses to teachers who choose to work in the three-dozen schools, with additional bonuses if teachers improve student performance. The money will also be used to hire Teach For America trained teachers, create a teacher residency program, develop a new district data system for teachers and administrators and more.<\/p>\n<p>With spoke with WJCT education reporter Rhema Thompson, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.wjct.org\/term\/quest-quality\">who did a series of stories about the initiative. <\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville-area businesses and nonprofits are trying to raise $50 million to help recruit and retain top teachers for three dozen of the district&#8217;s most challenged schools. The effort, known as Quality Education for All, is intended to help improve schools that have been the center of education-related lawsuits for decades. The money will pay bonuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1025,658,1079],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21918,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions\/21918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}