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This Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship requires a commitment to teaching in Kansas and teaching in a specified curriculum or underserved geographic area.. Students with teaching certificates are not eligible. Applicants with college credit must submit college transcripts and one letter of recommendation from a college official. In addition, high school officials must complete the back of this application no matter how many years ago high school graduation took place. Funding priority goes to renewals.

• Program Description
• Academic Criteria
• Recipients
• Deadline
• Award Amount
• Renewals
• Recipient Obligation:

Program Description:
Designed to encourage talented students to enter the teaching profession and teach in Kansas in specific curriculum areas or in underserved areas of Kansas. The relative shortage areas for recipients selected in 2006 will be Special Education, Music, Math and Science. The underserved geographic areas identified in 2007 are: USD 416 Louisburg, USD 373 Newton, USD 500 Kansas City, KS and USD 259 Wichita.

Academic Criteria:
Minimum criteria include a combination of the following:

1. enrollment in one of the specified curricular areas of a teacher education program.
   
   And a combination of the following:
2. completion of the Kansas Scholars Curriculum;
3. ACT or SAT score;
4. high school GPA; and
5. high school class rank.
6. college enrolled applicants must also submit transcript and
7. letter of recommendation from a college or university official.

NOTE: Incoming freshmen should NOT send transcripts or recommendation letters.

Recipients:
Students who meet minimum requirements comprise the applicant pool and will be ranked based on relative academic strength. First priority goes to applicants who are in their final two years of study in teacher education and who have submitted a college transcript and one letter of recommendation from a college official involved with the student's preparation to be a teacher. Special consideration (academic performance being similar) goes to minority applicants because minorities continue to be underrepresented in the teaching profession in Kansas schools. Second priority goes to students who have completed the Kansas Scholars Curriculum and have competitive GPA's, ACT scores, and class rank.

Deadline:
This scholarship is not need-based but information from the FAFSA is needed to produce a complete application. May 1.

Award Amount:
Scholarship recipients receive $5,000 each academic year and the scholarship may be received four years (five years in a designated five-year course of study requiring graduate work). Graduate work can be funded if it is required for initial licensure.

Renewals:
Recipients receive a renewal agreement, and promissory note from the Board of Regents in March of each year, which must be signed and returned. The Federal application and the state application must also be completed each year.

Recipient Obligation:
Recipients are advised to be seriously committed to teaching in Kansas one year for each year of scholarship support. If the recipient selects a different major, curriculum emphasis or underserved area, or does not teach in Kansas in the specified curriculum, the scholarship becomes a loan (with an interest rate equal to the Federal Plus Loan + an additional 5% subject to change annually) accruing from the date scholarship funds are released by the Board of Regents office.

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