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12-62 Annual Report 2000

Attracting Excellence to Teaching

Attracting Excellence provides loan forgiveness to high achieving college graduates who enter public school teaching. The program has been in existence since the 1995-96 school year, but has been expanded in several significant ways as a component of Chapter 260. Rather than limiting the pool to only those students who graduated in the top 15% of their undergraduate class, eligibility has been extended to those who earned an honors designation with either their graduate or undergraduate degree, in either their major or overall. Teachers may now receive up to $150 per month of loan reimbursement twelve months a year for four years. The program has $1.2 million of available funding for the 1999-2000 school year.

Total number of participating teachers, 1996-2000

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