Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps"
The new education initiative aims to incentivize quality teaching in fields where U.S. is lagging.
| Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at 10:10 AM ET
Initially, the corps would include 50 top teachers in each field, though
the administration hopes over the next four years it will grow to be
10,000 strong
Photo by Luke Sharrett/AFP/GettyImages.
Photo by Luke Sharrett/AFP/GettyImages.
The White House on Wednesday unveiled a proposal to create a national
elite teachers corps that would celebrate the achievements of the
nation’s top educators in science, technology, engineering, and math, Bloomberg reports.
The 50 top teachers in each field selected for the Master Teacher
Corps would receive a stipend of $20,000 added on to their salaries and
must commit for multiple years. The Obama administration plans to expand
the corps to 10,000 over the next four years, with the ultimate goal
that the elite group of teachers will pass their knowledge and skills
onto their colleagues to help bolster the quality of teaching
nationwide.
On the campaign trail, President Obama has pledged to protect and
expand funding for education programs, particularly in science and math,
and charges that Mitt Romney’s tax and spending plan would mean
inevitable cuts in the field, the Associated Press notes.
Already, the administration has earmarked $100,000 for the program
out of an existing fund to incentivize quality teaching, and plans to
include $1 billion for funding the initiative in the 2013 annual budget
request to Congress.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan hopes that the initiative will
receive bipartisan support, saying it has "nothing to do with
politics"—but House Republicans may not be so easily convinced.
Republican Rep. John Kline, Chairman of the House Education and the
Workplace Committee, pointed out to the AP that there are already more
than 80 quality teacher programs supported by the federal government.
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