Many new college graduates migrate to other parts of the country in search of job prospects that they either know or believe they cannot find elsewhere. Fewer college students opt for teaching careers. The resulting combination of trends, along with the aging teacher population and other factors, leaves many schools scrambling to fill their teaching ranks.
In Indiana, a group of civic leaders viewed these and other educational trends with growing alarm. In response, they formulated the Congressional Choice for Educational Excellence scholarship and teacher-reward program. Students who qualified for the program would receive full tuition at the Indiana higher-education institution of their choice, in exchange for promising to teach in Indiana classrooms for a specific number of years. Teachers could receive monetary awards to use in funding equipment, supplies, programming, and other ideas that school corporations would not be able to support. The program embarked on a $1.32 million fundraising campaign to launch its initiatives.
B Plus C Communications created a case study that drew heavily on the relevant educational, professional, and economic statistics to demonstrate the need this program would address.
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