Reducing or eliminating funding for these programs would also be especially harmful to charter management organizations that recruit heavily from the
AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the
AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on
AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and
teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described
Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both
AmeriCorps members and alumni from the program.36
Prior to joining Brooke, he was the School Success Manager for a formative assessment company based in Boston and before that served an
Americorps fellowship teaching middle school math in Boston Public Schools.