The following is an article from www.nj.com which covers the success rate and life changing experience the Alternate Route has been for all participants that went through the program.

“Educators at Bergen Community College expected a good turnout when they held two open houses for prospective students in their alternate route teaching program… “There were people there from all walks of life. We had everyone from the guy at the Verizon store who got laid off, to the guy who had been making $220,000 a year at one of the financial houses in the city,” said Ilene Kleinman, director of continuing education and community outreach there.”

"We must have had 150 people from the financial services industry, people who have lost jobs on Wall Street, lost jobs with big financial houses, who don't want to go through that again. They need to find something that makes sense," she said. "A lot of them think being a teacher makes sense." “About a third of new teachers entering New Jersey classrooms now come through alternate route certification, or 2,295 of 7,169 hired last year, according to the state Department of Education.”

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