The 25 teachers who make up the East Texas Regional Collaborative program at Texas A&M University-Texarkana are focused on science and preparing to instruct students.

To help their efforts, the program will receive $174,000 to continue joint ventures for another 30 teachers next year, said Dr. David Allard, project director and TAMU-T dean of Graduate Studies and Research.

“We are going to use this to work with local teachers to increase their content knowledge in physics and chemistry,” said Allard, who explained that educating teachers is a priority. The goal is helpi...