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The president wants to see 100 thousand s.t.e.m. teachers trained over the next decade. >> the higher education is the single best investment you can make in your future and i'm proud of the students making that investment. >> reporter: and all of this is not just about making the country more competitive. researchers found students in s.t.e.m. fields generally enjoyed better returns on the education investment with more job options and higher salaries. average engineer graduates can easily start at $65,000 a year. one of the five american jobs s.t.e.m. related, it's enough to make students an...

We had a demand for more or less 120,000 people with computer science degrees. and in the aggregate, we were only producing 40,000. if that's true, why in god's name wouldn't you keep everybody here who wants to stay who got an undergraduate or graduate degree and why wouldn't you have a visa program that wasn't a bureaucratic nightmare to fill the gap? while we're trying to increase more young people in the stem field. one of the things we did include the clinton global initiative when president obama said we need another one him,000 stem teachers, we knew the government wasn't going to have ...

Not be what it was. >> speaking of the administration, the administration is proposing a national teachers corps to reward the best teachers in science, engineering and math. it will start by rewarding 50 s.t.e.m. teachers with a stipend of up to $20,000 with the hopes of expanding within ten years. sounds like a great idea. >> my kids go to public school outside of washington, d.c. we had a great science teacher there who was doing science labs once a week, once every other week and her hours got cut. she got cut like three days a week. we try to raise money privately just to augment her sala...

Out what they were doing. >> reporter: as night falls again there are new arrests. she is an 18-year-old girl from the mexican state of vera cruz. for her it is the end of a 1200-mile trip in search of a dream. for the agents one of more than 300 arrests they will make before the night is over. rafael romo, cnn, arizona. stem teachers are the new focus in an effort to recruit and train educators. president obama's goal is to get 100,000 of them over the next decade. we'll explain in "your money."

President obama's 2012 budget calls for $4.3 billion for recruiting and training teachers and principals and a portion of that will go toward recruiting teachers in the so-called stem field, science, technology, engineering, and math. the goal is to get 100,000 new stem teachers in schools over the next decade but that could be easier said than done. >> you really think she is right? yeah. she is. >> reporter: after 31 years as an engineer gary is starting a new career -- math teacher at faith christian academy in poughkeepsie, new york. >> i was very comfortable where i was. i loved my job. b...