By Jennifer D. Jordan Journal Staff Writer Philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein is offering to pay the college scholarships of dozens of students who were promised the money by The Education Partnership, a nonprofit advocacy organization that went into receivership in June. Feinstein said he is concerned that several of the students will be unable to attend college unless they receive the $2,000 scholarships. He is also troubled that several hundred thousand dollars in a scholarship fund he established 15 years ago, which The Education Partnership oversaw, is apparently missing. “We started that fund many years ago to honor my late father after he passed away and it had $2.4 million to start with and it’s benefited more than 400 students over the years,” Feinstein said yesterday. “And when the Education Partnership took it...
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