TEACHER EDUCATION
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS & OTHER
RESOURCES:
with extra info for special education teachers & minority/ethnic teachers.
Compiled May 3, 2016 (Teacher's Day);
and updated May, 2023
by R. Harris, for D.D. in Kansas
Not copyrighted; copy & distribute freely.
NOTE: Before making the decision to study to become a teacher, consider these issues and risks, as reported in July 2017 by National Public Radio:
"Teachers With Student Debt:
The Struggle, The Causes,
And What Comes Next."
July 16, 2017, on NPR
U.S. Dept. of Education:
Apparently starting in 2017, under President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVoss, the U.S. Department of Education has begun aggresssively converting Teacher-education GRANTS ("TEACH Grants") into LOANS ("TEACH Loans") -- forcing recipients to repay the "free" money, even AFTER they've received it (as a GRANT) and spent it on college, and fulfilled all the presumed obligations for the grant.
Technicalities in the paperwork for the grants, and in their requirements for follow-up public service, have been used to ensnare thousands of grant recipients. New teachers' attempts to resolve their surprise sudden-debt problem have met with a stone wall at the U.S.Dept. of Education.
While I leave the officlal links to this federal aid information here, for the record, I warn students to NOT accept federal "grant" money specificially targeted for teacher education, until this situation is permanently and publicly resolved -- or the current administration is replaced by one which is not so openly hostile to public funding of education.
The following March 28, 2018 articles -- from a 2017-2018 investigative report series by National Public Radio (NPR) -- uncovered this huge threat to teacher-education grant recipients:
For more information, see:
"Education Department To Erase Debts Of Teachers, Fix Troubled Grant Program,"
Dec. 9, 2018, on NPR (National Public Radio)."Teachers Begin To See Unfair Student Loans Disappear Under TEACH Grant Fix"
May 3, 2019, on NPR (National Public Radio).
WARNING:
This fix of the federal "TEACH Grants"
does NOT apply to a similar problem with
the PSLF ("Public Service Loan Forgiveness") program
(for various public servants, including teachers in needy schools)
-- a separate program from the TEACH Grants.The PSLF program is rejecting nearly all applicants -- even after they have performed several years of the public service they were required to perform in exchange for having their student loans forgiven -- forcing them to repay loans they thought they would not have to repay. About 99% of applicants have been rejected, according to research by National Public Radio.
The Trump administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has attempted to investigate the problem, but has been blocked by the Trump administration's Dept. of Education
TEACH Grants
- Federal Student Aid
Teacher Education
Assistance for College & Higher Education Grant
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/grants-scholarships/teach
(CAUTION: See WARNING:. above.)
or see:
TEACH Grants
(explained more clearly than on the fed website, perhaps)
Teacher Education
Assistance for College & Higher Education Grant
- Fort Hays State University, Kansas
https://www.fhsu.edu/finaid/teach-grant/
(CAUTION: See WARNING:, above.)
Teacher Loan
Forgiveness - Federal Student Aid
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/teacher
(basically: 5
years teaching in specified poor areas, and loans are forgiven)
(CAUTION: See WARNING:, above.)
Kansas Board of Regents - Topeka
KS
(overseeing body of all state universities in Kansas)
Student Financial Assistance office
Scholarships & Grants
https://www.kansasregents.org/scholarships_and_grants
...which includes this section, near the end of the list of programs:
2021-2022
Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship
https://www.kansasregents.org/resources/PDF/Students/Student_Financial_Aid/KTS_2021-2022.pdf
...which is similar to the federal TEACH Scholarship noted above.
Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/
ISSUE BRIEF:
Preparing Future
Educators
to Meet the
Needs of Children with Disabilities
TeacherDegree.org
How to Become a
Special Education Teacher
http://www.teachingdegree.org/types-of-teachers/special-education/
Teaching
Scholarships in Kansas
http://www.teachingdegree.org/kansas/scholarships/
Teach.org
Teaching Scholarships & Teacher
Grants for Prospective Teachers
https://www.teach.org/teaching-scholarships
Teacher.org
Scholarships for Teachers
http://www.teacher.org/scholarships-grants/
Edutopia.org (filmmaker George
Lucas' foundation)
The Big List of Educational Grants &
Resources
http://www.edutopia.org/grants-and-resources
Recruiting Teachers of Color:
A 50-State Survey of State Policies
(NOTE: The Kansas program seems a
bit vague, at least for under-grad students)
http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/58/53/5853.pdf
by the
Education
Commission of the States
700 Broadway, Suite
1200
Denver, CO
80203-3460
Phone: 303.299.3600
Web address:
http://www.ecs.org/teachingquality/
Top Masters in Education website
55 Biggest Scholarships for Educators
http://www.topmastersineducation.com/biggest-scholarships-for-education-students/
U.S. News & World Report
magazine
Learn to Teach With Scholarships for
Educators
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-scholarship-coach/2015/04/30/learn-to-teach-with-scholarships-for-educators
Discover Student Loans
(credit card & loan company)
Find Ethnic & Minority
Scholarships
(CAUTION: Don't
give this site any info about you; just use it to jump to the
official websites about the individual scholarships, from their list
of
links)
https://www.discover.com/student-loans/scholarships/ethnicity.html
TEACHING IS A NOBLE PROFESSION. BE NOBLE!