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prima:“Here I feel that my profession is respected”: efforts to recruit more Puerto Rican teachers in Hartford, Connecticut

The “Paso a Paso” program offers salaries of up to $106,672 per year to bilingual teachers, while the Department of Education seeks to strengthen English language instruction on the island

August 17, 2025 - 4:25 PM

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The salary for a new teacher in Connecticut is around $49,860, but the average income for an educator in the state is $86,511. (David Zalubowski)

The Hartford, Connecticut, school district launched a new call for applications for the Paso a Paso program to continue recruiting Puerto Rican teachers to fill vacancies and address cultural diversity in its classrooms.

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An earlier version of this story identified the majority of teachers as "of color" in the penultimate paragraph. It has been edited to correct that the majority of "of color" are the students, not the teachers.

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