Five years out of the teaching fellows program half of her classmates had quit teaching.

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Mr. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor at the time, Joel Klein, expanded its Teaching Fellows program, which enticed teachers to work in poor schools by paying for their master's degree.

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Nine years ago Bushman left a job managing bond traders at Lehman Brothers, the last of her three stops on Wall Street, to take classes at Fordham University under the aegis of the New York City Teaching Fellows program.

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