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NEOSHO, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has announced grants to 125 local education agencies.
DESE said in a statement that its 2025 budget includes $2.5 million to support one-time grants of $10,000 to local education agencies to create or strengthen their Grow Your Own program, designed to increase recruitment of teachers.
Grow Your Own programs work to attract local students and noncertified school staff, such as paraprofessionals and substitute teachers, to the teaching profession. Funding can be used for dual-credit courses, scholarships for high school students, student internships, and opportunities for other nonteaching adults to pursue programs that will allow them to become certified teachers.
“Investing in Missouri students and their achievement means investing in our educator workforce — both the teachers serving classrooms today and those that will join the profession in the coming years,” Commissioner of Education Karla Eslinger said in a statement. “Grow Your Own programs are an important part of continuing to address the statewide teacher shortage, so we are thrilled to be able to provide a second round of funding to support this work at the local level.”
Area communities receiving a grant include Carthage, Cassville, Diamond, McDonald County, Mount Vernon, Nevada, Purdy, Seneca and Webb City.
Funding was also provided for the Developing an Educator Workforce that Expands Yearly program to a number of universities and colleges around the states for educator preparation.
Cottey College was award $70,000.
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