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Expanding Opportunities for All Children at Teach for America

David Baird
Teach For America
David Baird

Teach for America recruits and retains high-performing college graduates nationwide to teach full time in underserved schools for at least two years.

Here in the Chattanooga area, the nonprofit runs two programs with Hamilton County Schools: teacher recruitment, training and retention - and high-intensity tutoring in the schools.

David Baird is Teach for America’s senior managing director for development, based in Chattanooga.

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