The effort to get more qualified math and science teachers into the state’s public schools got a boost on Wednesday.
Flanked by students at the State Capitol showing-off their creations for a robotics competition, Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the bill to boost pay for math and science teachers in Georgia.
The legislation was one of Perdue’s top priorities during the General Assembly. Starting in the fall of 2010, newly recruited math and science teachers will earn the salary of a fifth year teacher. Pay would then rise a step in each of the following five years.
Perdue hopes the boost will attract qualified people from the business world, into Georgia schools.
Flanked by students at the State Capitol showing-off their creations for a robotics competition, Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the bill to boost pay for math and science teachers in Georgia.
The legislation was one of Perdue’s top priorities during the General Assembly. Starting in the fall of 2010, newly recruited math and science teachers will earn the salary of a fifth year teacher. Pay would then rise a step in each of the following five years.
Perdue hopes the boost will attract qualified people from the business world, into Georgia schools.
"Georgia businesses may contribute someone who has a calling to teach, understanding they can get in that teaching profession if they are trained scientists and mathematicians, and they have a calling to come out of business into the classroom to help grow these young people."The new law is designed to avert an estimated shortage of 1,800 math and science teachers in the near future.
