School System offers Teachers Special Inducement

Michael Alison Chandler:

Despite those limitations, school officials came up with a new tool this year to entice more teachers to Loudoun.

With help from the county's chamber of commerce, a school employee approached dozens of area businesses, banks and apartment complexes about offering discounts of some kind for county educators.

The result is the Loudoun Incentives for New Employees program. Think of it as a coupon book for teachers.

School officials say they hope that with the extra financial assistance -- a break on closing costs for a new home, for example, or a $100 deposit in a new checking account -- more teachers will choose to live in Loudoun, closer to the football games and after-school activities that are part of school life. Loudoun is now the home address of 63 percent of the county's teachers.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 9, 2006 7:13 AM
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