A new scholarship program aims to recruit new teachers in Lenoir and Greene counties with free college tuition and licensure within a year of enrolling.
The Rural Teaching Fellows Initiative, sponsored by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) and a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, will license 150 teachers [...]
The most important education reform bill proposed here in decades, one that would give scholarships to special-needs children, has been introduced by state Sen. Eric Johnson of Savannah, the Senate’s President Pro Tem — a position second in power to the lieutenant governor.
Watch for the defenders of the status quo, the more-money it’s-not-our-fault crowd that [...]
The Arkansas State Teachers Association is offering scholarships and classroom minigrants to teachers across the state. Each candidate must submit a resume, and short application explaining how the funds will help advance his or her own professional career. The deadline to apply is March 30. For more information visit www.astapro.org, call toll free at (877) [...]
Ball State University has announced funding for several new scholarships. They include:
Mary Margaret Manifold Scholarship Fund: The $320,000 fund will assist students majoring in art education or students majoring in humanities education who intend to become teachers.
The award honors Manifold, a veteran teacher who taught at New Haven High School outside of Ft. Wayne for [...]
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College has been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to help more students become teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the university’s School of Education a $2.2 million five-year “Transition to Teaching†grant.
The grant is designed to implement a fast-track alternative teaching certificate program for recent college [...]
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG – News) today awarded $1 million to Teach For America’s Connecticut region. Teach For America is the national corps of top college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity. The grant, to be [...]
Parents and grandparents have already stashed more than $100 billion in 529 state college saving and prepaid tuition plans. And since Congress last year made the federal tax benefits of these plans permanent, interest in them has grown.
But picking a plan can be daunting — and not just because of the variety of investment choices [...]
ATHENS — The Athens Rotary Club established a scholarship to assist students attending Athens State University.
The club completed a $10,000 endowed schol-arship when it presented University President Jerry Bartlett a check for $4,000.
The scholarship will be awarded through the Athens State University Foundation. The club’s scholarship committee will select the student.
SANTA FE – A proposal to help avert a financial shortfall in a lottery-backed college scholarship program has cleared the Senate.
The bill would freeze college tuition for students receiving a scholarship from the program. The scholarships cover the costs of tuition at state colleges and universities for eligible New Mexico students.
Senate Republican Leader Stuart Ingle [...]
Thousands of California students in for-profit and vocational schools will keep their financial aid even if state oversight lapses in July, a federal agency has decided.
Only a handful of the 400,000 students could be affected by the scheduled closure of the state’s Bureau of Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, a U.S. Department of Education official [...]