RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina officials are reviving efforts to help college students pay for their education in return for working in the state’s schools.
Legislators on Thursday proposed up to $8,250 in loans that could be wiped away for teaching science and math or in high-need or low-performing schools. Gov. Roy Cooper last week proposed a forgivable loan program of up to $10,000 a year for 500 students in exchange for a commitment to teach in public schools.
Politicians said they’re trying to reverse a teacher shortage.
Legislators in 2011 started phasing out a program which annually gave 500 promising high school seniors four-year scholarships in return for four years of teaching.
State public universities saw a 30 percent drop in education majors between 2010 and 2015, part of a national decline.
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