Teach for America expanding to Tampa Bay

• The district also had more schools with D or F grades last year than anywhere else in the state per the Times.

How it works: TFA recruits and trains teaching candidates, often from top colleges and universities, and sends them to communities in need.

• Corps members have a presence in more than 40 regions, including Miami-Dade and Duval counties.
• The move into Tampa Bay is the organization's first expansion into a new region since 2016, per the Times.

Zoom in: Hillsborough will pay salary and benefits plus a $5,000 fee to TFA for up to 20 corps members, district spokesperson Debra Bellanti told Axios.

• District officials identified 30 schools — 14 elementary, six middle and 10 high schools — with "hard-to-fill positions" for TFA to focus on, Bellanti said.
• Most are part of the district's Transformation Network, a group of low-performing schools prioritized for turnaround.