Program Requirements

Illinois Future Teacher Corps (IFTC) Program

If your child was a recipient of both the DeBolt Teacher Shortage Scholarship (DTSS) and the IFTC program, your child must fulfill the requirements of the IFTC program.

DeBolt Shortage Scholarship Program (DTSS)

If your child was a recipient of both the DeBolt Teacher Shortage Scholarship (DTSS) and the IFTC program, your child must fulfill the requirements of the IFTC program.

If your child was a DTSS scholarship recipient, your child must teach full-time, in a designated teacher shortage discipline, for each academic year—or a portion of an academic year for which the DTSS award was received. This teaching obligation must be fulfilled at an Illinois public, private, or parochial preschool, elementary or secondary school, within five years following termination from the program of study funded by the scholarship, and continuing until the obligation is fulfilled.

Minority Teachers of Illinois (MTI) Scholarship Program

If awarded the MTI scholarship, your child must teach full-time, for each academic year—or a portion of an academic year, in which the MTI Scholarship award was received. This teaching obligation must be fulfilled at a not-for-profit, Illinois public, private or parochial preschool, elementary or secondary school, at which no less than 30 percent of the enrolled students are minority students as certified by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). Your child must begin teaching within one year following termination from the program of study funded by the scholarship, and continue until the teaching obligation is fulfilled.

Illinois Special Education Teacher Tuition Waiver (SETTW) Program

After receiving the SETTW, your child must teach for two years on a full-time basis, in the field of special education for any assistance received through the SETTW program. This teaching obligation must be fulfilled at a not-for-profit, Illinois public, private or parochial preschool, elementary or secondary school, beginning within one year and for two of the five years immediately following graduation or termination of enrollment.

Illinois Optometric Education Scholarship Program

If awarded the Optometric Education Scholarship Program award, your child must practice in Illinois as a licensed optometrist for a period of not less than one year for each year of scholarship assistance received. Your child must also begin practicing optometry in Illinois within one year following completion of the academic program for which the scholarship was awarded, and practice on a continuous basis until the obligation is fully completed.