- Governor’s Teaching Fellowship Program
- APLE (The Assumption Program of Loans for Education)
- Federal Perkins Loan
- Teachers For Tomorrow Scholarship Program
Governor’s
Teaching Fellowship Program
Phone: (866) 824-7335 or Email: Teacher-fellowship@calstate.edu
$20,000 to help pay living and educational expenses. Designed to prepare teachers
to teach in low performing schools.
Eligibility Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university
- Verified academic and employment record
- Proof of admission to and/or enrollment in a California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) accredited teacher education (non-intern) program.
- Enrolled full time
- Letters of recommendation and faculty/employer evaluations.
- Interviews with program administrators
- Commitment to teach in a low performing school
APLE
(The Assumption Program of Loans for Education)
Phone: (916) 526-8250
Under APLE, the California Student Aid Commission may assume up to $11,000 in
educational loans in return for four consecutive years of full-time eligible
teaching service in a California K-12 public school.
Download
application, complete it and bring it to the office of Student Services, KH D2078.
Participants must agree to teach in one of the following:
- A designated subject-shortage area identified annually by the State Superintendent of Public Education
- Schools serving a large population of students from low-income families
- A State special school
- Schools serving rural areas
- Schools where there is a high percentage of teachers holding emergency permits.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must have a minimum GPA of 2.67 or higher
- Must be a legal resident of California.
- Must have completed a minimum of 60 semester or 90 quarter units prior to the fall term of the year of application.
- Must enroll in a program leading to a BA degree or in an approved program of teacher preparation.
- Enrollment must begin during fall of year of application.
- Must have received, or have been approved to receive, Stafford Student Loans/Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL), Perkins/National Direct Student Loans (NDSL), Supplemental Loans Program for Students (SLS), Consolidation Loan Program loans, or privately funded educational loans issued to students through institutions of higher education for the purpose of defraying costs associated with obtaining a BA degree or an initial teaching credential.
- Must be free of any obligation to repay any state or federal educational grant and not be in default on any state or federally insured educational loan.
- Must not have completed the teacher credential coursework, unless one has an initial teaching credential and is pursuing a specialist credential, required for teaching in specific/special areas targeted under the APLE.
- Must agree to teach in a California public school for at least four consecutive years after obtaining a full teaching credential.
Federal
Perkins Loan
Low interest loans at 5% made through participating colleges for students with
exceptional financial need. The annual loan limit is $6,000 for graduate students
(aggregate loan limit, $40,000). You’ll pay no interest while you’re
enrolled in school at least half time, and repayment begins nine months after
you graduate, leave school, or drop below half-time status. Eligibility based
on financial need.
Teachers
For Tomorrow Scholarship Program
Edison International shareholders provide twenty-five $5,000 scholarships to
CSU students seeking teaching credentials at eligible southern CA campuses.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must attend a participating CSU campus.
- Must be enrolled as a full-time CSU student in a teacher preparation program (single, multiple or special ed. credential).
- Must be in good academic standing with a cumulative undergraduate minimum GPA of 3.0.
- Must demonstrate financial need as determined by financial aid office.
- One applicant per campus must identify math or science as an area of concentration.
- Dependents
of Edison International employees are not eligible.