To address concerns about teacher shortages—particularly the small number of teachers of color relative to K–12 students of color—and the decline in the number of candidates enrolling in teacher preparation programs, the Center for Collaborative Education partnered with community colleges to create the Community Partnerships for Teacher Pipeline (CPTP) program.

This evaluation report shares findings from an external evaluation that WestEd researchers conducted to gauge the effectiveness of the CPTP program. The study looked at its implementation in three community colleges in Southern California and used a quasi-experimental design with a matched group of comparison students to measure impact on key outcomes such as grade point average, persistence in college, course completion, credit accumulation, and transfer rate.

Overall, the findings showed that CPTP succeeded in producing better outcomes for the participating students when contrasted with the outcomes of matched comparison students enrolled in the same colleges. These findings suggest that CPTP may lead to its developers’ goal of helping alleviate teacher supply shortages.