FAP402: International Education Week Scholarship, Cumberland Farms interview, food festivals, Lorena Mire

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+ From the Daily Record: Some towns are using creative, private funding to pay for public school classroom extras. The School District of the Chathams, however, has a delicious one: The Chatham Education Foundation's annual Taste of Chatham Festival.
+ The smell of food filled the air Monday night at the Fairmount Country Club, which sponsored the sixth annual festival, where local eateries offered samples of their cuisine to a happily nibbling crowd of about 350.
+ An estimated $30,000 was raised at the festival, Carlene Pruitt, a trustee of the Chatham Education Foundation, said.
+ First Marblehead Corp., which provides private student loans at AlternativeStudentLoan.com and private education loans at ActEducationLoans.com, on Monday said it expects a planned $1 billion securitization of private student loans to close on or about Dec. 7.
+ Missouri's student loan authority should be able to give up $350 million for Gov. Matt Blunt's college construction plan without jeopardizing its financial health, according to an analysis released Thursday by the loan agency.
+ The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority could even afford to make some of its state payments sooner than planned, the long-awaited report by Liscarnan Solutions LLC concluded.
+ The $350 million payout should not negatively affect the student loan agency's credit ratings nor its ability to continue its current level of borrower benefits, such as its loan forgiveness programs for certain Missouri students, the report said.
+ Seth Godin has an interesting piece on the end of the job interview - worth a read

Scholarship Update
+ Yesterday began International Education Week
+ InternationalStudent.com is sponsoring a scholarship:
+ Win $2,000 in our travel competition
+ Win a Samsung Mobile Phone
+ Win £100 of UK High Street Vouchers
+ Win an iPod Shuffle
+ Deadline December 1, 2006
+ Shoot a 4-8 minute video
+ Open to anyone
+ Details at our free scholarship web site

Expert Interview
+ Patti Firing from Cumberland Farms talks about their scholarship, the Believe and Achieve Scholarship

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