Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship is a merit based service obligation scholarship program designed to motivate and encourage the talented students to enter into the profession of teacher. In other words the Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship wants to create a favorable atmosphere to attract more and more students in teaching field.

Eligibility Criteria:

• A resident of Kansas and pursuing bachelor’s degree programs
• Licensed teachers pursuing endorsement in hard-to-fill disciplines
• Master’s degree in hard-to-fill disciplines
• Group planning to teach in an underserved geographic area with a service obligation of one year of service for each year of award

The recipients will receive award of $ 5,000 each academic year and that will continue for four years or five years if enrolled in a five-year course of study requiring graduate work.

Hard to fill disciplines for 2010-2011 are: Special Education, Mathematics, Science, Foreign Language and English as a Second Language.

Underserved geographic areas for the 2010-2011 are: USD 501 Topeka, USD 500 Kansas City, KS; USD 259 Wichita and State Board Of Education Area including all of Western 1/3 of the State Of Kansas. Know more about this scholarship at www.kansasregents.org. Also the application is available at http://www.kansasregents.org/resources/PDF/686-KansasTeacherServiceScholarship.pdf .

The application must reach the concerned authority no later than May 1, 2010