July 30, 2024—Teaching Assignment Monitoring Outcomes (TAMO) is a powerful data tool that reflects student access to teachers who are appropriately assigned and fully credentialed in the subject area and for the students they are teaching. It ultimately reveals where we need greater focus and investments on teacher recruitment and retention, including schools with the highest percentages of students of color and low-income students, writes Senior Policy Advocate Angelica Salazar in her op-ed “How a wonky policy tool may be the secret to building a robust, diverse, teacher workforce.”