; and (C) in Tennessee, where 95 percent of Memphis Teacher Residency program participants were still teaching for a third year, compared with 41 percent of teachers statewide. (8) Additional studies of teaching residency programs show similarly high retention rates of graduates, ranging from 80 percent to 90 percent teaching in the same district after 3 years, and 70 percent to 80 percent teaching in the same district after 5 years. (9) According to data from the San Francisco Unified School District, principals find graduates of teaching residency programs to be well prepared, and in many cases to be better prepared than new teachers who were not in teaching residency programs. Research also shows that teaching residents strengthen schools across the country by reducing teacher shortages and providing local educational agencies with a more sustainable educator workforce. (10) In 2019, there were at least 50 teaching residency programs nationwide, each of which range in size from 5 to 100 teaching residents per year. Several States, including California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia, are supporting teaching residency programs through regional network partnerships that regularly bring together leadership from across local educational agencies and preparation programs to share knowledge and develop more enduring and reciprocal relationships between such agencies. (11) Teaching residency programs align with the purpose of the Federal Work-Study Program to provide valuable work experience and work related to a student’s course of study and intended profession. Further, the Federal Work-Study Program prioritizes teaching reading based on scientifically based research on reading, a feature consistent with efforts in teaching residency programs to equip all new teachers, regardless of subject area, with the skills to support reading and literacy skills for all students. (12) According to a recent report by the George W. Bush Institute on