|
Tennessee Student Assistance Award
(TSAA) |
Low-income traditional and
non-traditional qualified Tennesseans |
$42.3
million
Current
funding leaves over 31,000 eligible
students without funding. |
$30.4 million
This
incremental increase will fund an
additional 15,800 students who apply by
May 1, 2006.
|
|
Ned
McWherter Scholars Program |
Top
academic Tennessee high school graduates
Minimum
Requirements:
3.5 GPA
and 29 ACT or 1280 SAT
|
$630,500
Current
expenditures fund only 200 of over 700
eligible student scholars. |
$100,000
To
continue funding the program at the
current level |
|
Tennessee Teaching Scholars Program |
Program
is designed to attract and keep
qualified teachers in Tennessee.
Recipients must teach equal to the
number of years they receive the
scholarship or repay the funds.
|
$611,000
Stagnation with current spending levels
has caused the program to fund less and
less students. Historically the program
funded over 200 recipients, currently
151. |
$358,100
Designed
to increase the maximum award from
$4,500 per year to $4,950 and to
increase the recipients by 60 students. |
