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Employment Deferment and Cancellations

Teaching in Elementary or Secndary Schools Serving Low-Income Students

You must be a Full-time teacher directly employed by the school system, in a public or other nonprofit elementary or secondary school that the U.S. Department of Education has designated as a low-income school which has a high concentration of students from low-income families for a complete academic year or its equivalent.

A supervisor, administrator, researcher, or curriculum specialist is not a teacher unless he or she primarily provides direct and personal educational services to students.

All Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) elementary and secondary schools qualify.

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