The National Teacher Corps was a federally-funded Great Society program established as part of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide teachers to poverty stricken areas of the United States. Originally part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, the National Teacher Corps survived until 1981, when it was folded into an educational block grant as part of the Reagan Administration's New Federalism effort to trim the Federal budget.
The idea of a teachers corps was reestablished as the non-profit organization Teach for America, which receives federal support as an AmeriCorps program. Reestablishing a National Teachers Corps has been suggested by the Democratic Leadership Council[1]. In his 2006 State of the Union address George W. Bush proposed an effort to train more K-12 math and science teachers as part of the American Competitiveness Initiative.
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