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Teacher Shortage Areas

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Teacher Shortage Areas Nationwide Listing 1990-91 Through 2009-10; March 2009

Annual publication of the Teacher Shortage Area Nationwide Listing designated by the Department of Education as required under the following program regulations:

  • 34 CFR 682.210(q) enables a borrower who had no outstanding Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program loan on July 1, 1987 but who had an outstanding FFEL Program loan on July 1, 1993 to qualify for deferment of loan repayment under the Federal Stafford Program anytime within the life of the borrower's loan(s);

  • 34 CFR 674.53(c) enables Federal Perkins Loan borrowers who are full time teachers of mathematics, science, foreign languages, bilingual education or any other field of expertise where the State educational agency determined there is a shortage of qualified teachers to qualify for cancellation of up to 100 percent of their loan;

  • 34 CFR 696.12(d) enables grant recipients to fulfill their teaching obligation under the Teacher Education Assistance For College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program; and

  • 34 CFR 653.50(a)(2)(ii) enables scholars to qualify for the reduction of teaching obligation under the Paul Douglas Teacher Scholarship Program.

Teacher Shortage Areas nationwide listing for the years 1990-91 through 2009-10, published March 2009.

 

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Last Modified: 04/10/2009