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Many landlords also run your credit before approving you as a tenant, and a bankruptcy could scare them off. If you have an apartment, stay there until it's been a few years since your bankruptcy or your credit score is over 650. This is especially important if you're in a city like New York or San Francisco where finding affordable housing is already difficult. What Life After Bankruptcy Looks Like Latoya Scott of Life and a Budget filed for bankruptcy after incurring $36, 420 in credit card debt and $1, 460 in medical bills. A life-long shopaholic, Scott had seen many of her family members do the same after getting into too much debt. Fortunately, she used the opportunity to better herself and her financial situation. She kept making payments on her auto and student loans. Two years after her bankruptcy, she and her husband qualified for an FHA mortgage. Now, she has a 730 credit score even though her bankruptcy won't fall off until next year. "I'm quite positive that next year I'll be in the 800 club, " she said.
These programs are largely run by ex-teachers who have a passion for their work, and that work is educating teachers and parents on how to do their instructional jobs in more interesting, more creative and more successful ways. Intel's site is updated daily with new lesson plans, advice, and commentary by teachers accessing it around the world. One interesting tool is the story finder. Say you wanted to know how other classes were using handheld computers to learn. Intel gives you a simple form to fill out. You check a couple of boxes, and then you have the related stories organized by grade level. One story tells how students teamed up with farmers to gather data on lizards. The real goal was to improve the state benchmarks in social studies, math, writing, reading, communication and science. The teachers won awards for the project, and the students left with a broad understanding of not only the world they lived in but how to do research. These skills should make them vastly more competitive as they enter the job market, and in this case they probably will be more environmentally aware as well.