Under the i3 scale-up grant, TFA planned to grow its corps by 80 percent and aimed for a majority of its teachers to be rated highly effective by the 2014-2015 school year¶

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q2 i? TFA's i3 scale-up plan set a goal of growing its corps by 80 percent and aimed for a majority of its teachers to be rated as highly effective by the 2014-2015 school year. → Zukiewicz 2015

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Zukiewicz 2015¶

Zukiewicz, M., Clark, M. A., & Makowsky, L. (2015). Implementation of the Teach For America Investing in Innovation Scale-Up. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/implementation-of-the-teach-for-america-investing-in-innovation-scaleup

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The report describes the goals TFA set under the i3 scale-up grant: a planned "corps by 80 percent" growth and an aim for a majority of teachers to be rated "highly effective" by 2014-2015.

"Under the i3 scale-up grant, TFA planned to grow its corps by 80 percent and it aimed for a majority of its teachers to be rated as “highly effective” by the 2014–2015 school year."

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Related Claims¶

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