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PROGRESSION OF TEACHER-LEADER FINANCIAL AID AND CERTIFICATION SPENDING OVER EIGHT YEARS
Lowering the barrier for recent university graduates and professionals without backgrounds in teaching to enter the teaching profession is an essential component of our work to enable collective leadership and end educational inequity in Armenia and Artsakh . The support given to Teacher-Leaders through our Leadership Development Program is designed to make it easier for them to not only start but continue working in education . In addition to their salaries , Teach For Armenia provides Teacher-Leaders with financial aid and the opportunity to pursue our new Master ’ s Degree in Teacher Leadership at Yerevan State University . As our cohorts of Teacher-Leaders grow , so does our spending on teacher certification and financial aid . But the Master ’ s program , by design , allows us to lower our programmatic costs while still providing participants with a modern , high-quality teaching qualification with a specialization in Teacher Leadership , contributing to the success of our Teacher-Leaders and the entire educational system as a whole . The programmatic outcomes of the degree also enhance the appeal of teacher profession in Armenia overall , and foster competitiveness within the field , which will lead to an improvement in quality system-wide .
CERTIFICATION COST FINANCIAL AID
$ 53,300
$ 34,300
$ 27,500
$ 25,000
$ 28,000
$ 29,500
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$ 15,000 |
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$ 4,200 $ 58,000 |
$ 174,000 |
$ 225,000 |
$ 292,000 |
$ 378,000 |
$ 411,000 |
$ 446,200 |
$ 641,370 |
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2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
Annual Report 2022
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