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Teacher Career Establishment Grant Eligibility

This grant is open to all eligible classroom teachers. Applicants are not required to have loans owned or serviced by Iowa Student Loan or to have graduated from an Iowa college or university.

Applicant Eligibility

Applicants are eligible for the grant if they meet all* the following requirements:

  • Graduated or will graduate during the 2011 – 2012 academic year.
  • Are certified in a state-designated shortage area in Iowa.
  • Are contracted to begin their first classroom teaching job in a state-designated shortage area in Iowa after July 1, 2012.
  • Haven't taught in any other state prior to teaching in Iowa.
  • Are not individuals approved for an Iowa Student Loan Teacher Education Loan Forgiveness Award between 2006 and 2010.
  • Are not employees — or dependents or spouses of employees — of Iowa Student Loan.

* Iowa Student Loan reserves the right to consider special circumstances.

Eligible Shortage Areas

Eligible teaching areas are those designated as classroom subject shortage areas by the Iowa Department of Education.

Grade Level General Education
K – 12 English as a Second Language
K – 12 Talented and Gifted
K – 8 Music
5 – 12 Music
5 – 12 Family and Consumer Sciences
5 – 12 Foreign Languages (All)
5 – 12 Industrial Technology
5 – 8 Mathematics
5 – 12 Mathematics
5 – 8 Science (All)
5 – 12 Science (All)
5 – 8 English / Language Arts (All)
5 – 12 English / Language Arts (All)
5 – 12 Health
5 – 8 Social Studies
All Early Childhood

Age/Grade Level Special Education
All Instructional Strategist I
All Instructional Strategist II LD-BD
All Instructional Strategist II MD
All Instructional Strategist II PD
PreK – K Early Childhood Special Education
Birth – 21 Itinerant Hearing Impaired
Birth – 21 Itinerant Visually Impaired
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