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"Associated with teacher quality is the question of teachers' influence on their students.

In the recent weeks, after losing a roomate to an internship, I have been faced with a tough decision: where to live. As a 25 year old single female living in North Jersey, there arent many feasible options. My full time job for a non profit gives me a meager salary with which to support myself, much less live luxuriously. Rent was doable for my 2 roomates and I.

A little background on the community in which I work: it is comprised mainly of hispanic immigrants from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, and Columbia. I work in an elementary school where about 90% of the parents are Spanish speaking only. When conversating with many of these parents, it has come to my attention that they desperately need/want to learn the English language.

When thinking about this issue, it seems simple on the surface. However, when you look a little deeper, alternate route certification is a subject that can be looked at in many different ways.