The General Assembly appropriated fiscal year 2023 state funding for a teacher residency partnership between university teacher preparation programs in Virginia and the Petersburg, Norfolk, and Richmond City school divisions and any other university teacher preparation programs and hard-to-staff school divisions to help improve new teacher training and retention for hard-to-staff schools. Virginia public institutions of higher education with teacher preparation programs may apply for the grant funds. A public institution of higher education may partner with a teacher preparation program in a private institution of higher education may partner with a teacher preparation program in a private institution of higher education, following necessary grant-making or procurement process.