{"id":22,"date":"2024-09-06T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:54:46","slug":"parents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no career more rewarding than teaching. There is a critical shortage of math and science teachers across the United States, so your daughter or son should have no trouble finding a position. There are federal, state and university scholarship opportunities for students intending to teach, especially those in shortage areas and those interested in teaching in a high needs area. Salaries for beginning teachers are competitive with other entry-level positions, but the impact an excellent teacher makes on his or her students is priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teacher Salary Schedules for Local School Districts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-style-compact-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/4.files.edl.io\/ea87\/06\/26\/24\/133713-df8bdb82-98be-44a8-a668-b5905d6edac5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rutherford County Schools<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnps.org\/careers\/resources?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw2dG1BhB4EiwA998cqH_huQRhVWXUc5l4ckCnD7ASOKqpkUeJIMlEjdYYykhAKNPFBBYmGRoCoMkQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metropolitan-Nashville Public Schools<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wcs.edu\/pdf\/hr\/salaries\/Teacher-Salary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Williamson County Schools<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Fsi53MEKr4-P_JY2gSVMq97BN1oGBLNA\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wilson County Schools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Rutherford County Schools currently offers a signing bonus for teachers of mathematics, physics or chemistry. Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/4.files.edl.io\/3e5e\/01\/12\/24\/135237-f394ff36-3663-426e-b3f8-2820dec57106.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here&nbsp;<\/a>for more information!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no career more rewarding than teaching. There is a critical shortage of math and science teachers across the United States, so your daughter or son should have no trouble finding a position. There are federal, state and university scholarship opportunities for students intending to teach, especially those in shortage areas and those interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/mteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}