The LEAP to Teacher Program is offered by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies in collaboration with the UFT and participating colleges in all five boroughs. The LEAP to Teacher program helps place UFT paraprofessionals at participating colleges and provides them with a wide range of free, specialized support services over and above the union’s tuition support. These services include: pre-admission counseling college preparation classes academic and career advice tutoring writing support information about tuition assistance, scholarships and grants and more.
The LEAP to Teacher participating colleges are the Borough of Manhattan Community College (for associate degree candidates only), Brooklyn College, the College of Staten Island, Lehman College, Queens College and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Additionally, the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies offers a $1,000 tuition assistance scholarship for LEAP to Teacher graduate students studying in any of the NYC teacher shortage areas. To learn more, contact a LEAP to Teacher program coordinators via email at: LTT [at] slu [dot] cuny [dot] edu (LTT[at]slu[dot]cuny[dot]edu).
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