U of Cal Offers Incentives to Increase Math and Science Teacher Graduates

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

California's public universities plan to more than double the number of science and math teachers they graduate to overcome a shortage of trained and credential instructors in those fields, it was announced Tuesday.

Both the University of California and the California State University systems, which together now graduate about 1,000 math and science teachers, will use a combination of incentives to reach their goal of 2,500 teachers in four years.

Among the carrots will be waiving the repayment of $19,000 in loans for some students.

Cool.