The Walton Family Foundation awarded a $49.5 million grant to the Teach for America program.
The program allows for recent college graduates to teach in some of the nation's most underserved schools for two years.
The organization will send 9,300 corps members to 43 refions across the country. For the next couple of years, half of the grant money will be used towards growing teaching corps to 15,000.
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