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Teachers say grants from Ed Dept were wrongly converted into loans
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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Some teachers who received a special grant from the Education Department to help pay for their own tuition are saying their grants were wrongly converted into loans, NPR reported.
The department’s Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) grants are awarded to college students who teach in “high-need” fields like math and science at low-income schools.
The grants, which can total up to $4,000 an academic year, remain grants so long as recipients teach in the fields for at least four years during an eight-year period, and then provide proof that they’re continuing to teach in the filed.