Over the summer Towson University hosted a program to teach former federal workers how to be teachers in Maryland K-12 schools. The program, Imagine: A Pathway to Teaching, is part of a larger state initiative run by the Maryland Higher Education Commission to address Maryland’s teacher shortage.
The program also comes after President Donald Trump’s rehauling of the federal government, which has fired nearly 60,000 federal workers and at least 75,000 taking early career buyouts.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission is funding the program through grants totaling $1 million and giving them to eleven colleges, including Towson. It’s part of Gov. Wes Moore’s Teacher Quality and Diversity initiative, which aims to help combat Maryland’s teacher shortage…