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Gold Rush fever has stricken our scientifically
and mathematically gifted citizens. Even though many high-tech startups fail, if you get the right company—and a good part of your pay in stock—boom! People with the same training that we require of teachers are becoming overnight, multi-millionaires. Tough competition for school teachers.
Mark Warner’s got an idea to provide incentive for teachers to work in Virginia that is a stroke of pure genius. He sees a way to keep teachers teaching and let them cash in on the high-tech gold rush at the same time. It holds the promise of secure steady jobs in beautiful rural communities with solid financial incentives to back it up.
And it’s cost to the taxpayer?....zilch, absolutely nothing—not one taxpayer dollar. The man is a genius.
Mark Warner knows that forward thinking people in the high tech-sector—and Virginia’s is big—are understandably worried about the vacuum they are creating in teaching. No math and science teachers means no employees down the road. The economic engine pops a piston, just when we should be cruising.
Mark Warner knows that the high-tech sector in Virginia will gladly do the same thing for Virginia’s teachers that they are willing to do for their own employees. After
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