Teach For America Houston

For more than 20 years, Teach For America has been a pacesetter for education reform in the city of Houston. Since 1991, nearly 2,000 Teach For America corps members have taught in Houston’s lowest-income schools, reaching nearly 200,000 students collectively and becoming some of our city's most prominent education leaders and reformers.

Despite the sustained effort by committed community leaders and Teach For America corps members and alumni, however, high dropout rates and substandard achievement in Houston's schools persist. Fortunately, Houston corps members find themselves in the company of reform-minded educational leaders. The same entrepreneurial spirit that made Houston the world's energy capital is working to increase educational opportunities for all of its students.