{"id":61519,"date":"2025-12-04T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:07:19","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Amount: <\/strong> Up to $6,000.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>About: <\/strong>\r\n Offered by the California Teachers Association (CTA), the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship helps minority students become educators, school nurses, school counselors, or school therapists. Each applicant must be pursuing a degree, credential, or certification for a teaching-related career in public education at an accredited higher education institution, be enrolled for summer or fall semester of 2022, and be African American\/Black, American Indian\/Alaska Native, Asian\/Pacific Islander, or Hispanic. Additionally, each applicant must be an active member of the CTA or the Student CTA or be the dependent child of an active, retired, or deceased CTA member. Members must live in California.\r\n\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n <strong>Eligible Grade Levels:<\/strong> College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior, Graduate Student\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n <strong>Eligible Majors:<\/strong> Education\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n <strong>Residency Requirement:<\/strong> California\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Minimum GPA:<\/strong> No GPA requirement\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline:<\/strong> February 20, 2026\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor&#8217;s website for up-to-date deadlines.\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cta.org\/for-educators\/scholarships-awards\/mlk-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Scholarship<\/a><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amount: Up to $6,000. About: Offered by the California Teachers Association (CTA), the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship helps minority students become educators, school nurses, school counselors, or school therapists. Each applicant must be pursuing a degree, credential, or certification for a teaching-related career in public education at an accredited higher education institution, be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[3720,3712,3714,3715,3713,4238,3730,3729,4953],"tags":[5158],"class_list":["post-61519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-college-freshman","category-college-junior","category-college-senior","category-college-sophomore","category-education","category-february","category-graduate-student","category-no-gpa-requirement","tag-up-to-6000"],"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 $6,000. 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