The Education Department bent the rules to award grants worth millions of dollars to hand-picked applicants in 2001 and 2002, congressional investigators have found. The moves were not characterized as illegal and no corrective action was required.
In a review released by a top House Democrat, the Government Accountability Office detailed three cases in which the [...]

While looking for ways to pay for college, Hulbert High School senior Sydney Dunning has found the Real Thing — a scholarship from Coca-Cola that could pay up to $20,000.
Dunning is one of 200 students from across the United States competing for one of 50 $20,000 scholarships through the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation.
As a regional finalist, [...]

The Saline County Single Parent Scholarship Fund will be accepting applications from now until June 30, 2006.
The scholarship fund is sponsored by Central Arkansas Development Council, a United Way agency. The fund reportedly has awarded 278 scholarships totaling more than $140,000 since 1990.
Each scholarship recipient is provided with counseling, information, referrals in the program, and [...]

The federal Education Department has agreed to review requests from 20 states to alter significantly the way they measure student progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. The move comes as the number of schools across the country deemed substandard under that law grows by the thousands.
The requests, which Education Secretary Margaret Spellings invited [...]

ExxonMobil today announced that it will for the fourthconsecutive year offer the popular Mobil Delvac Agricultural Scholarships program, which provides $4,000 scholarships to threestudents pursuing a college degree at an accredited U.S. agricultureschool.
Scholarship winners will be selected from responses to one of twoessay categories and one photo/graphic category centered on thisyear’s theme of “Maximizing the [...]

2006 Heber Springs Business and Professional Women’s Organization (BPW) Scholarships are available to graduating seniors attending a public high school in Cleburne County. Four $400 scholarships will be awarded based on academic achievement, application process and interviews.
Application requirements:
1) Applicant must complete requirements to graduate from their respective high school in the spring of 2006 with [...]

Young cancer survivors may be eligible for scholarships from the American Cancer Society.
The American Cancer Society’s Mid-South Division will award $1,000 scholarships to individuals who have fought cancer and are attending an accredited university, college or vocational/technical school.
The scholarship program is in its fourth year. To be eligible, applicants must have a GPA of at [...]