Baltimore is home to 83,000 public school students, but only 60% of those students make it through high school, and fewer than 1 in 10 graduate college. Teach For America • Baltimore is working to change that.  We've made some encouraging progress since we first came to Baltimore in 1992, especially in the past few years.

Doubling our corps size since 2009 has enabled us to kickstart the process of building a pipeline of leaders who will bring lasting change to the students of Baltimore. Already, 18 Teach For America alumni are Baltimore school leaders, including 12 principals. Our alumni ranks also include a recently elected member of the city school board, and 28 members of the staff for the Baltimore City Public Schools superintendent, Dr. Andrés Alonso. As a result of our close partnership with Dr. Alonso and other local civic and education leaders, we are working to bring 1,000 corps members to Baltimore over the next five years.

Five years from now we also aim to have Teach For America alumni leading 20% of all schools across the city. Working together with district and state leaders, I believe deeply that we will achieve these goals and ensure that each and every student in Baltimore has access to an excellent education.