NEWS
State funding reinstates UB’s teaching residency program, but federal gap still felt
By DOROTHY SIMILIEN | 9:58pmUB’s Urban Teacher Residency program was left in financial limbo since March, when the sudden termination of $4 million in federal grants prevented the program from onboarding its 2025-26 cohort and left an unclear future of whether it was viable enough to remain running. The program was created to diversify Buffalo’s high-need districts, helping to close the racial disconnect between students — the majority from racial minority backgrounds — and a teacher demographic predominately white.
