{"id":46945,"date":"2024-11-24T11:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=46945"},"modified":"2024-11-28T02:17:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:17:52","slug":"teacher-scholarships-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/teacher-scholarships-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 15 Teacher Scholarships for Texas Teachers 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
Scholarships are financial assistance programs based on academic achievement and other predetermined criteria for students.<\/span><\/p>\n These financial awards are given to students by schools, universities, professional organizations, or the government to help them finance their education without the burden of high tuition fees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Scholarships for <\/span>Texas teachers<\/span><\/a> aim to nurture the next generation of Texas educators by providing them with financial, internship, and mentorship programs that will mold them into successful educators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To check the scholarships available to you as an educator in your state, check the scholarship page on your state\u2019s website. One key step in securing a scholarship is filling out the <\/span>Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA)<\/span><\/a>. The federal government evaluates your financial need and decides if you qualify for aid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This article provides you with all the relevant information about Texas scholarships for aspiring teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n College tuition and related expenses have increased significantly over the past few decades, from<\/span> $18,300 annually in 2000 to more than $27,000 in 2017<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Teaching is a highly demanding profession whose need for qualified professionals is increasing daily. Aspiring teachers, therefore, require all the financial help they can get to help them pursue their teaching degrees and graduate on time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The demand for teachers has pushed <\/span>Texas to hire more teachers without traditional training <\/span><\/a>with the hope that the State will pay to prepare them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Texas teacher\u2019s scholarships are therefore, essential in helping minimize the loan burden for teachers and in providing an alternative method of funding prospective teacher\u2019s education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Different scholarships available to teachers in Texas help provide alternative funding methods for their education. These include:<\/span><\/p>\n The Teach for Houston scholarship offers free assistance to aspiring teachers. To be eligible, you must be pursuing initial teacher certification through a partner program. Unfortunately, you do not qualify if you are looking to add credentials to your certificate or are pursuing administrator certification.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Once you enroll in one of the partner teaching programs, you get up to $100 reimbursement of your application fee expenses. Costs such as transcript fees and required test registration fees are also reimbursed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To apply, you must sign up for a <\/span>free TEACH account<\/span><\/a> and then apply to one of the <\/span>partner programs<\/span><\/a>. You can then enroll to receive the scholarship funds once you are admitted to a partner teaching program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n TEACH for Houston offers two types of scholarships:<\/span><\/p>\n The Charles Butt Award is a component of the <\/span>Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation<\/span><\/a>. It provides approximately 100 annual scholarships, mentorship from experienced public school educators, and ongoing training and participation in a state-organized aspiring teachers network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It consists of $8,000 yearly for up to four years and is open to students who are working towards their initial teaching certification within selected programs at participating universities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To qualify for the scholarship, you must be enrolled full-time in EC-6 ESL\/Generalist Certification, Bilingual certification, UTeach Urban Teachers, Special Education Certification, or UTeach Urban Teachers English. The award requires that you have displayed leadership skills and strong academic achievement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You should also have shown your commitment to serving high-needs Texas public schools in either a Title 1 school or a shortage subject area (math, special education, science or bilingual) upon graduation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Application<\/b>: Enrolling freshmen are automatically considered and so information from the Apply Texas application is considered. If you are a new student, you should apply online. The scholarship involves a competitive selection process, from application to pre-screening by the university to an individual interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>JRF award<\/span><\/a> grants four-year scholarships combined with job placement, mentoring, life skills training, and leadership development opportunities to highly motivated college students with a need for financial funding.<\/span><\/p>\n Students receive scholarships of up to $35,000 over a period of four years and are financially supported to attend JRF\u2019s annual, four-day leadership conference.\u00a0 Other perks include career guidance, permanent job placement, travel abroad, and practical life skills training. Applications open in September and close in January.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The application includes:<\/span><\/p>\n The Rachel Robinson International Fellowship<\/b> supports international service and study opportunities for JRF scholars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Extra Innings Fellowship<\/b> also helps highly motivated JRF Scholars fund the cost of advanced professional or graduate training. EIF promotes the study of a broad range of disciplines that communities in need within the country and across the globe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Asian & Pacific American (APIA) Scholars offer financial support to students from the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Island (AANHPI) backgrounds. The APIA scholarships are open to AANHPI undergraduate students attending U.S.-accredited colleges and universities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The amount awarded ranges from $2,500 one year awards to $20,000 multi-year awards. In addition, the APIA scholars has a special focus on learners living below or at the poverty line, are the first ones to attend college in their family, or are representatives of the AANHPI community both ethnically or geographically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here is a summary of the eligibility requirements:<\/span><\/p>\n APIA Scholars offers applicants the opportunity to apply for two scholarships: the <\/span>APIA Scholarship <\/b>and the <\/span>AANAPISI Scholarship.<\/b> However, if eligible, you will only be awarded one scholarship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>Texas Retired Teachers Foundation (TRTF)<\/span><\/a> awards scholarships to first-year public school educators. Applications are open on the TRTF website beginning in September and closed by the 31st of January.<\/span><\/p>\n This Beginning Teacher Scholarship is meant to reimburse first-year enrollees for their certification tests and test results and to assist them in purchasing their classroom materials.<\/span><\/p>\n To be awarded the TRTF scholarship, you must;<\/span><\/p>\n The Ellsworth Family Foundation is a funding foundation privately established to offer charitable grants to qualifying tax-exempt organizations with reliable ties with the State of Nebraska. \u2018<\/span><\/p>\n The foundation\u2019s charitable activities include education with an emphasis on disabled children, family services, protection of upland bird or waterfowl habitat, art collection, river and stream restoration and conservation, and protection of scenic views.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It also raises funds for scholarships, equipment purchases, and campus improvements. Annually, the foundation awards 145 endowed scholarships and provides $300,000 financial assistance to ECC and its students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, Ellsworth College Trustees provide over $200,000 in scholarship support, making Ellsworth one of the lowest community colleges in terms of student debt when graduating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Ellsworth Community College offers the following scholarships:<\/span><\/p>\n The<\/span> Carol Murphy Memorial Endowment<\/span><\/a> is open to residents of Missouri, Indiana, or Texas who are at least 25 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To be eligible:<\/span><\/p>\n You should also be attending or enrolled in an accredited school within the United States and major in education or business.<\/span><\/p>\n Selection for this award is based on service and leadership (15 points), financial need (50 points), and scholastic ability(25 points).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To complete your application, an application fee of $5 is required. Once you have filled out your application, you should submit it to the ESA state counselor, who verifies the information before forwarding it to the scholarship director.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is an award for U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate students residing in Texas.\u00a0 Qualifying students are awarded a non-renewable $1300 annual amount, which is applied towards registration, tuition, dormitory fees, books, and other college fees and academic expenses. To qualify, you must have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To apply for this scholarship, you need to prepare the following:<\/span><\/p>\n The application fee is meant to cover the costs of running the scholarship program. Any remaining monies after the costs are covered are put back in the general scholarship to support future awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Applications for the Jerry Harvey Scholarship are decided on based on Service\/ leadership- 20%, Financial need- 35% and Scholastic ability- 35%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The USPAACC CelebrASIAN Scholaship has been embraced by different corporations and Asian American businesses who support the program and endow their oen scholarships. It awards between ten and twenty scholarships annually ranging between $3,000 and $5,000 to high school seniors nationwide for their post-secondary education. The award is open to four-year college enrollees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To apply for this scholarship,<\/span><\/p>\n The Udall Foundation offers scholarships, internships and fellowships to undergraduate students enrolled in the healthcare, Tribal public policy, and environmental fields. It\u2019s highly competitive requiring applicants to participate in internal competitions before being considered by the Udall Foundation. In 2025 it awarded 55 scholarships of $7,000 each.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The UHCL Exploring Careers in Teaching (EXCITE) program offers tuition funds for Hispanic and low-income students enrolled in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The scholarship amount varies from $1,000 to $5,000 per semester, up to a maximum of four semesters. The application deadlines are 15 March for MAT and 15 May for EDCI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To qualify:<\/span><\/p>\nOverview of Texas\u2019 Teaching Situation\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
15 Scholarships for Teachers in Texas<\/b><\/h2>\n
1. TEACH for Houston\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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2. Charles Butt Scholarship<\/b><\/h2>\n
3. Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF)<\/b><\/h2>\n
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4. <\/b>APIA Scholarship Program<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n
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5. TRTF Beginning Teacher Scholarship<\/b><\/h2>\n
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6. <\/b>Ellsworth Family Endowment<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n
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7. Carol Murphy Memorial Endowment<\/b><\/h2>\n
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8. <\/b>Jerry Harvey Endowment<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n
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9. USPAACC CelebrASIAN Scholarship<\/span><\/h2>\n
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10. <\/b>Udall Undergraduate Scholarship<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n
11. <\/b>UHCL EXCITE Scholarship<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n
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