Dear Superintendents and Principals:

In response to Kentucky?s submission, the United States Department of Education
(U SDE) has designated the following areas as teacher shortage areas during the 2018 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2019 school year.
Local Workforce Critical Shortage Area(s) Local Workforce Critical Shortage Area(s)
Area Area
BLUEGRASS Early Childhood Ed LINCOLN TRAIL I Early Childhood
English as a Second Education
Language
Foreign Language
Health Physical
Education
Social Studies
Speech/Language
Pathology
CUMBERLANDS I Early Childhood NORTHERN I Exceptional Children
Education KENTUCKY I Health Physical
I Exceptional Children Education
EASTERN I Career Technical . I English as a Second
KENTUCKY Education SOUTHCENTRAL Language
CONCENTRATED I Early Childhood I Exceptional Children
EMPLOYMENT Education
PROGRAM 0 English 
Communications
I Exceptional Children
I Foreign Language
I Math
I Science .
GREEN RIVER I Exceptional Children TENCO I Career Technical
I Science Education
I English 
Communications
I Exceptional Children
I Science
I Social Studies
KENTUCKJANA I Career Technical WEST I Career d: Technical
Education KENTUCKY Education
GREATER I Early Childhood I Early Childhood
LOUISVILLE Education Education
I English as a Second I English 
Language Communications
I Exceptional Children Exceptional Children
I Foreign Language Health Physical
I Mathematics Education
I Science I Mathematics
Science
I Social Studies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approval by the USDE of these shortage areas in our state may bene?t student grant and
loan recipients who are quali?ed to teach in the aforementioned academic disciplines.

Bene?ts to student ?nancial aid recipients, such as loan cancellations, are indicated in the
following regulatory provisions:

34 CFR and (5) enable a borrower who had no outstanding
Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program loan on July I, 1987, but who
had an outstanding FFEL Program loan on July 1, 1993, to qualify for deferment
of loan repayment under the Stafford Loan Program anytime within the life of the
borrower?s loan(s) for up to three years of service as full-time teacher in a private
elementary or secondary school in a teacher shortage area designated by the
USDE, and as certi?ed by the chief administrative of?cer of the particular school
in which the borrower is teaching;

34 CFR 674.53(c) enables Federal Perkins Loan borrowers who are full-time
teachers of mathematics, science, foreign languages, bilingual education, or any
other ?eld of expertise where the State educational agency determined there
is a shortage of quali?ed teachers to qualify for cancellation of up to 100% of
the outstanding balance on the borrower?s Federal Perkins loans; and

34 CF 686.12(d) enables grant recipients to ful?ll their teaching obligation
under the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education
(TEACH) Grant Program (regarding the requirement to serve at least four
academic years, within eight years of graduation) by teaching in a ?high-need
?eld,? which includes academic disciplines/subject areas identi?ed as teacher
shortage areas at the time the grant recipient begins teaching in that ?eld.

Stafford Loan and Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) recipients who have questions
concerning their loans, including the teacher shortage area deferment, should contact the
Federal Student Aid Information Center at I-800-4FED-AID. Federal Perkins Loan
borrowers should contact the college/university where they received the loan.

Sincerely,

Mar. u. ems, 
Wayne D. Lewis, Jr., 
Commissioner of Education