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Some teachers saddled with this debt burden will get a second chance

Some TEACH recipients wrongly had grants converted to loans

Gainesville Middle School music teacher Craig Bailey tells of his problems with the US Dept. of Education Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, when he was working toward his masters degree. The US Dept. of Education is making changes to the troubled program that trains teachers to educate in low-income schools/neighborhoods, but program has left many of these teachers with unnecessary debt. - photo by Scott Rogers

01182019 TEACH 1.jpg — Gainesville Middle School music teacher Craig Bailey tells of his problems with the US Dept. of Education Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, when he was working toward his masters degree. The US Dept. of Education is making changes to the troubled program that trains teachers to educate in low-income schools/neighborhoods, but program has left many of these teachers with unnecessary debt. - photo by Scott Rogers

Craig Bailey, a music instructor at Gainesville Middle School, is one of thousands of educators across the nation who got ensnared in bureaucratic paperwork that left them loaded with debt after pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees.