{"id":111612,"date":"2026-01-09T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111612\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:00:08","slug":"lcs-accepting-participants-for-fall-2026-teacher-apprenticeship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111612\/","title":{"rendered":"LCS accepting participants for Fall 2026 Teacher Apprenticeship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Schools is accepting participants for their Teacher Apprenticeship Program this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-year program is part of a partnership with Tallahassee State College.<\/p>\n<p>The school <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsc.fl.edu\/about\/newsroom\/2024\/november-\/pcog-gyo-grant-fuels-teacher-apprenticeship.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received a $491K grant<\/a> to create the program in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Paraprofessionals can earn a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Exceptional Student Education for free, while gaining classroom experience and working with a mentor teacher. <\/p>\n<p>Participants can take part in the program and still work and get paid.<\/p>\n<p>LCS says this program is meant to grow local educators, strengthen the workforce, and support students with exceptional needs.<\/p>\n<p>Participants must:<\/p>\n<p>have an A.A. degree with a 2.5 GPA.be a paraprofessional for the duration of the program.be paired with an ESE teacher at your school site for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like more details or want to sign up, contact Rebecca Salvo, Director of Recruitment and Retention, at Rebecca.Salvo@leonschools.net.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Schools is accepting participants for their Teacher Apprenticeship Program this fall. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5566,56845,11851,3704,56846,232,234,233,56847,12633,7461,964,562],"class_list":["post-111612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-classroom","tag-ese","tag-experience","tag-leon-county-schools","tag-paraprofessionals","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-teacher-apprenticeship-program","tag-teaching","tag-tsc","tag-workforce","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}