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Denise H.'s avatar

There is a system for teachers to pay off student loans if they work in Title 1 schools. It’s very helpful! It gets quality teachers into schools where they are needed most. But I’d get my Masters if I could afford it!

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Ted's avatar

It would be amazing way to fill teaching positions. Keep classes smaller.

The mission of education is to instill a lifelong value of learning, to keep learning. This is where most success in life lies.

Its also an economic stimulus, as the money that would go to debt service would move to consumption or more education for educators, so the quality of teachers continually increase and income over lifespans is directly proportional to education levels.

People could teach after college a few years, and get their bachelors loans paid off. Leave if they want to. Stay 4 more years and earn a masters degree tuition as a perk. Its a no brainer, Everybody wins. Teachers can get multiple masters degrees to teach more subjects ( cross trained), so you strengthen the schools resiliency for vacancies.

Underserved community schools and rural schools we could have higher a faster loan payoff as an service incentive, 2 years to keep those schools competitive with bigger cities. Kinda like a peace corps, but for education.

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Irenie's avatar

In 2005 I was reimbursed $5000 of my $20,000 loan, for my MA degree, while I taught Title 1. I had to teach five years with the degree before reimbursement. There are incentives but they require a lot of work.

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