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Education focused programs are for teachers who agree to serve 1-2 year contracts in exchange for a certain amount of loan forgiveness. All but one of the programs have renewable contracts. 14 states have active education programs. The maximum amount varies from $1,000 to $30,000, with an average of $11,694.<\/p>\n

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Every region of the US has 1-3 education programs. These programs are highly advantageous for teachers, as on average 37% of teachers have student loans they need to pay off. Teachers can spend up to $42,000<\/a> on a master\u2019s in education, for an average starting salary of $44,530<\/a>. Due to these salaries teachers can have high financial instability, with 18% of teachers having second jobs to make ends meet. These programs offer an opportunity for teachers to offset some of their student loan debt and entice more professionals into important job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Education focused programs are for teachers who agree to serve 1-2 year contracts in exchange for a certain amount of loan forgiveness. All but one of the programs have renewable contracts. 14 states have active education programs. The maximum amount varies from $1,000 to $30,000, with an average of $11,694. Every region of the US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23612,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/852"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fairstudentloans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}