How much do districts help finance Masters work? (masters degree, license, college)
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I know some districts will help subsidize it while you're working on it, but what about if you happened to get it prior to teaching? I decided to just go ahead and get my Masters since the job market isn't that great at the moment and I honestly would rather take care of it while I don't have a full time job. Problem is that I'm going to be taking on 100% of the financial burden and I don't know if districts can retroactively help subsidize it if they know the subsidize is going towards paying off any debt.
I know there are some grants available to me if I choose to teach title I which I want to do, but I don't want to take a risk since I may not like it is as much as I think I would.
I really doubt any district will help pay off student debt of any type incurred prior to hiring.
I work for a large Metro DC system and it paid $150/class (essentially 1 credit). The money became available at 8AM July 1st and was usually gone by 8:05. There was always a line outside the Certification office that day. I probably was only reimbursed the $150 for half of the classes I took.
None of my districts have ever subsidized masters degrees.
However, it's a big step over on the pay scale for having a masters. That's a big plus!
What area do you live in? Here they'll help pay for a teacher to get one, but the pay bump for having one isn't that great. Just like a $1000 more compared to a BA.
Zero here. Nothing towards classes I'm required to take to keep my license and nothing towards the ones I already took but I didn't expect anything. I don't take the classes for their benefit. I take them to keep my license.
My district will reimburse only one full course a year. When I got my Masters I paid for 8 of the 10 courses. I've never had to pay to recertify though. The district offers plenty of courses at no cost to employees and they count towards recertification.
The MA scale is about $5,500 over the BA, so it's worth having. With a MA, we don't have to have a 3 credit college content course to recertify.
Zero here. Nothing towards classes I'm required to take to keep my license and nothing towards the ones I already took but I didn't expect anything. I don't take the classes for their benefit. I take them to keep my license.
What state do you live in? If you have a MA here then you don't need to take courses to get re-licensed, but they do reimburse those who do since it counts towards their MA. Professional development when we have our MA is also fully funded, but those aren't courses or anything, they're just workshops and seminars. In my honest opinion, I think it's disrespectful towards teachers that they don't try to help out teachers who are teaching and have to pay out of pocket to do things to get re-licensed considering how little teachers make compared to other professionals.
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Originally Posted by tgbwc
My district will reimburse only one full course a year. When I got my Masters I paid for 8 of the 10 courses. I've never had to pay to recertify though. The district offers plenty of courses at no cost to employees and they count towards recertification.
The MA scale is about $5,500 over the BA, so it's worth having. With a MA, we don't have to have a 3 credit college content course to recertify.
I double checked to make sure I wasn't off and yeah, having a MA in the districts I'm looking at barely pays more than BA. Having a PhD will get one closer to around $4500 extra.
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