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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="18-2210" title_number="18" title_name="Student Financial Assistance" subtitle_number="22" subtitle_name="Maryland Teacher Scholarships">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Office, in collaboration with the Department, shall publicize the availability of Teaching Fellows for Maryland scholarships.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Office shall focus on publicizing the availability of the Teaching Fellows for Maryland scholarships:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>At historically Black colleges and universities in the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To teaching assistants and other educational support staff currently working in public schools and publicly funded prekindergarten programs; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>In a manner that promotes the program to students who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the teaching profession.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To the extent practicable, the  Office shall award scholarships under this subtitle in a manner that reflects ethnic, gender, racial, and geographic diversity.</text>
  </level>
</section>
