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<\/div>\r\n\r\nAmount: <\/strong> Up to $3,000.\r\n\r\n
<\/div>\r\n\r\nAbout: <\/strong>\r\n The Arkansas Teacher Opportunity Program (TOP) awards up to $3,000 in reimbursement on the tuition, mandatory fees, books, and required supplies paid by Arkansas teachers, librarians\/media specialists, guidance counselors, and administrators for six college credit hours completed. Applicants must be an Arkansas resident for at least 12 months prior to the application deadline; be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident alien; have and maintain a current teacher and\/or administrator license with the Arkansas Department of Education; be employed as a classroom teacher, librarian\/media specialist, guidance counselor, or administrator in Arkansas and intend to continue their employment in Arkansas; be enrolled in an approved institution of higher education in Arkansas; be enrolled in a college-level course(s) directly related to their employment; and have a minimum GPA of 2.5 in the course(s) funded by the TOP grant during the application period. Applicants must also provide a transcript for the relevant semester(s), an itemized statement of charges, and a copy of the paid receipts. Additionally, those seeking reimbursement for books they purchased need to supply a copy of the syllabus.\r\n\r\n
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<\/div>\r\n\r\n Eligible Grade Levels:<\/strong> Teacher, Librarian\/Media Specialist, Guidance Counselor, Administrator\r\n
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<\/div>\r\n\r\n Eligible Majors:<\/strong> All majors\r\n
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<\/div>\r\n\r\n Residency Requirement:<\/strong> Arkansas\r\n
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<\/div>\r\n\r\nMinimum GPA:<\/strong> 2.5\r\n
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<\/div>\r\n\r\nDeadline:<\/strong> July 1 (annually)\r\n\r\n
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Amount: Up to $3,000. About: The Arkansas Teacher Opportunity Program (TOP) awards up to $3,000 in reimbursement on the tuition, mandatory fees, books, and required supplies paid by Arkansas teachers, librarians\/media specialists, guidance counselors, and administrators for six college credit hours completed. Applicants must be an Arkansas resident for at least 12 months prior to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-no-separators","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4950,5484,2356,3833,5483,3819,5482,5481],"tags":[5114],"class_list":["post-112371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-5","category-administrator","category-major","category-arkansas-2","category-guidance-counselor","category-july","category-librarian-media-specialist","category-teacher","tag-up-to-3000"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Scholarship Spotlight","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/author\/scholarship-guru\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Amount: Up to $3,000. About: The Arkansas Teacher Opportunity Program (TOP) awards up to $3,000 in reimbursement on the tuition, mandatory fees, books, and required supplies paid by Arkansas teachers, librarians\/media specialists, guidance counselors, and administrators for six college credit hours completed. Applicants must be an Arkansas resident for at least 12 months prior to…","featured_media_src_url":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114950,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112371\/revisions\/114950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}