Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grant Program (TEACH Grant) Agreement to Serve or Repay

The U.S. Department of Education is requesting a revision of the TEACH Grant Agreement currently approved under OMB No. 1845-0083. The Consider Teachers Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-49) made certain changes to the provisions governing the TEACH Grant Program in section 420N of the HEA, one of which was to replace the previous requirement for a TEACH Grant recipient to comply with the requirements for being a highly qualified teacher as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 with a requirement for the recipient to meet all state certification requirements for teaching (which may include meeting such requirements through certification obtained through alternative routes to teaching). To reflect this statutory change, we have modified the Agreement by replacing all references to the highly qualified teacher requirement with the new requirement and removing the definition of “highly qualified teacher.” We have also updated the section of the Agreement that describes the terms and conditions of Direct Unsubsidized Loans to reflect certain changes to the Direct Loan Program regulations that were made by a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 1, 2022 (87 FR 65904). In addition to making these updates to reflect statutory and regulatory changes, we have made minor, non-substantive wording changes in several places throughout the Agreement for greater clarity.

The latest form for Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grant Program (TEACH Grant) Agreement to Serve or Repay expires 2026-12-31 and can be found here.