DAYTON, Ohio -- The University of Dayton and Wright State University are teaming up to help improve local high schools.

The two schools are looking for educators who can go into local high schools and teach math and science at the highest levels. The two universities met at Stebbins High School on Thursday morning and announced that they are sponsoring a new program looking for 50 people that already have degrees in math, chemistry or physics.

Officials said they will pay to put educators through a streamlined teacher certification program and get them into Ohio classrooms next fall as math and science teachers.

The need for science and math teachers is great, and students who will be graduating at the end of the new school year will have to compete for jobs in the Dayton area, nationally or internationally.

The program begins in November and is sponsored by the Departments of Education at UD and WSU. They have had 120 people call and express interest in the program.

Organizers of the program hope to get more funding to expand the program even more.