The North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program named its 210 early decision recipients, representing 63 counties across the state.
“I really feel like Teaching Fellows is a premier pipeline opportunity for the state,” said Dr. Bennett Jones, who serves as Director of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program.
The program provides tuition assistance of up to $10,000 per year in the form of a forgivable loan for students who commit to teaching elementary education, special education, or a STEM subject in a North Carolina public school. One year of teaching serves as repayment for one year of the loan.
“For a profession like teaching, which most folks who go into it aren’t going into it expecting to get rich anyway, the idea of something like the Fellows program, where you can go and have your education covered, I think is a huge bonus,” added Keith Poston, the President of WakeEd Partnership.
“Getting that scholarship and then being able to pay it back by my service to my community, that’s just a big deal. I’m sure that other recipients feel that way also. Being able to pay back by doing something that you love,” said Zacchaeus Jones, a recipient and student at North Carolina Early College High School in Kinston.