If doctors and lawyers can make $100,000 a year, why not teachers? That question led Nancy and Rich Kinder to team up with the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and offer the $100,000 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award. This award will go to one outstanding teacher working in an underserved American community. Candidates must work full-time in a K-12 school where at least half of the students qualify for federal free or reduced-price lunch. Because KIPP is intimately involved with the award's administration, no teacher who works at a KIPP school in during the 2005-2006 school year will be eligible for the 2006 award. Nominations will be accepted now through December 31, 2005. More information and a nomination form are available here.
