Incentives
During each of the first two years of teaching, CUNY defers payment of TOP students’ tuition and fees until the end of the school year. At the end of their first year of teaching full-time in a New York City public school and successful completion of the first year of the program, participants can receive an AmeriCorps Eduacation Award (worth $4,725 in 2009) that can be used to pay deferred tuition and fees at CUNY. Participants can earn a second AmeriCorps Education Award (worth $4,725 in 2009), which can be used to pay their second year’s tuition and fees at CUNY, after their second year of full-time teaching and successful completion of the second year of the program. Most program participants will need to take from 36-48 credits to complete the program. Program participants can use any unused parts of their Education Awards to pay off student loans or to pay for future education expenses. TOP participants must commit to teaching in New York City for two years following completion of their master’s degrees.
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Famous quotes containing the word incentives:
“Perestroika basically is creating material incentives for the individual. Some of the comrades deny that, but I can’t see it any other way. In that sense human nature kinda goes backwards. It’s a step backwards. You have to realize the people weren’t quite ready for a socialist production system.”
—Gus Hall (b. 1910)