We need to ensure that a college education still means a better life for the Americans who put themselves through school. Our government should not be profiting off of crushing student debt. Rather, we should be working to make college affordable for all Americans. An affordable college education means a more educated and economically prosperous America. Bringing down the interest rates on existing student loans would help young Americans to achieve some economic security in today's economy. The $1.2 trillion dollars in student loan debt in America is a crisis that threatens our economy. That is why we must give student borrowers the ability to refinance at today's lower rates—rates agreed upon by both Republicans and Democrats. It's time we address the issue of student loan debt in America—Senator Nelson, please support the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act.

Move On advises that we address petitions directly to our legislators, as they are more likely to listen to their constituents, so please sign even if you have already signed another petition to save the Wright School. The following is what Joe Reed said in a similar petition addressed to the entire legislature. "Although the Wright School survived a plan to close the school in last year's budget cycle, we have been shocked to learn that this year the Senate has again proposed a budget that would close the school in September 2014, returning the children to non-existent local resources. Now the NC House is set to propose its version of the budget in the coming days, and we must act quickly if we are to save this vital resource. The Wright School, a nationally-known 50-year-old institution, is a best practice, short term, high quality residential treatment center for children statewide with severe emotional, behavioral and learning difficulties whose needs cannot currently be met in their communities. It serves as a model facility nationwide for the principles of Re-Education, and has a sterling record of unqualified success. To learn more about the school, visit www.wrightschool.org and please, forward a link to this petition far and wide! We've also launched a support website to help you have an even greater impact: www.savewrightschool.com Please help promote this site as well! Time is NOT on our side this year and the school could be closed forever in just a few months. We literally have only days to convince the Legislature to once again back away from this disastrous decision. There is some support for the school in the legislature, particularly from Rep. Nelson Dollar, but we must raise our voices as loud as we can, because these children have no political voices of their own."

Closing this school will cost people there jobs, and we don't need to build a new school, just fix what we have. Our town is broke already, we should not be adding more to our debt.

As New York City public school students, we applaud Comptroller Stringer and Mayor de Blasio for recognizing the power of arts education to improve academic outcomes, especially for young people who live and go to school in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. As leaders in our community, youth in arts education, future voters and future members of the city’s workforce, we urge the de Blasio administration, Comptroller Stringer, Carmen Fariña, the City Council and other city leaders to create a youth board to ensure the $20 million arts education funds are distributed to the schools and programs in communities that need and demand arts education. As youth leaders, we want to ensure our city leaders make good on the promise and ensure that all New York City public school students receive the comprehensive and state-mandated arts education they deserve regardless of who they are, or where they live.

As a long time California taxpayer, I am appalled at the high number of foreign students and out of state students are accepted by UC SD, UCBerkely, UCI, UCD, etc, compared to the low number of qualified California applicants accepted. Hghly qualified children of friends, colleagues and my extended family, all long time California taxpayers have been rejected from these schools at great numbers. This is unfair.

Saving auto shop means providing high school students with an opportunity to develop automotive skills that would be useful in their personal lives, professional lives or in the military. There are lots of lucrative opportunities that the automotive industry has to offer graduating high school seniors. The 2014-15 school year will be the last school year to offer Auto Shop.

Did you know that Portland Schools have decided to close the Pre-K program at Longfellow? Neither did we! Longfellow's Pre-K program has been a big success, getting some great results for students from all over the city. Longfellow & Hall School's area families are missing out on the possibility of a Pre-K education at their local school. Children across the city are being denied the opportunity to experience a Pre-K program at one of the leading schools in the state of Maine. Return the public Pre-K program to Longfellow School!

University Terrace East, LP is proposing to build a 27 unit addition to the existing 75 unit apartment complex located at 5205 – 5245 Genesee Cove, San Diego, CA 92122. This complex is located adjacent to Curie Elementary, 0.4 miles from Standley Middle School and 0.4 miles from UC High School. As such this complex provides an excellent opportunity for people that do not have the economic possibility to buy a house in University City, to send their children to the excellent schools in the local school district.

State Senate Bill 744 [pg. 65] includes a two-line provision to “study the feasibility of dissolving any constituent institution whose fall full-time equivalent student enrollment declined by more than twenty percent (20%) between the 2010-2011 fiscal year and the 2013-2014 fiscal year and shall develop a plan for its dissolution. The Board of Governors shall report its findings and recommendations, including the plan for dissolution, to the 2015 General Assembly.” According to the University of North Carolina, the only constituent institution that meets this criterion is Elizabeth City State University. Elizabeth City State University is a historically African-American institution, or HBCU, that serves a 21-county service area in northeastern North Carolina, the most impoverished region of the state. Washington Monthly ranks ECSU #1, in large part, because of the social mobility that it encourages. According to Atlantic Monthly, "students [at ECSU] graduate at about twice the rate statistical models would predict, given the demographic the university serves." ECSU is the third-largest employer in the region and an engine of economic growth ($118 million in output sales, $83 million in value added, and $59 million in labor income). North Carolina needs ECSU.

The Uxbridge Community has not had the chance to thoroughly discuss the new online high-stakes test called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career) as a replacement for MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) and what it will mean for our kids, teachers, and K-12 schools.

The Recovery School District has had over 8 years to transform John McDonogh High School into a high performing high school. Instead, the RSD intentionally starved the school of needed leadership and resources. They tried to give the building to a local charter operator, then they tried to close the school, then they brought in the disastrous out-of-town charter operator Future is Now. Future is Now was so bad that they have abruptly closed the school. They are promising to redesign and rebuild the historic building, but they won't commit to ensuring that the school reopens as John McDonogh High School, and they won't meet with the community to provide answers about the closure of the school. We need your signature to let John White, Patrick Dobard, the RSD and the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education know that the community is tired of broken promises and disrespect. We won't go away and we want answers now.

On May 19, the Walt Disney Magnet Local School Council voted to move our school day start time to 7:30 am, with only one dissenting vote. The LSC made this decision with little advance notice and without conducting a survey of parents, and despite the overwhelming opposition of parents in attendance at the meeting. The reason given for this decision was that substantial savings of more than $200,000 would be made available to Disney. While this is a significant amount, the savings are outweighed by the higher costs that the earlier start time will impose on our children and our families: a) Tardiness will increase dramatically. On many days, even in good weather, some 50-100 students are waiting in line to enter the building at 8:10 am. In winter the numbers are often far higher. With only 15 minutes between the earliest drop-off and the opening of doors to students, traffic jams are unavoidable. Because Disney students come from across the city, an earlier start time will only aggravate these problems. b) Student safety will be at risk. From mid-December through early February, dawn will come less than half an hour before the school doors open. This will be hazardous for those who walk to school and those walking from the parking lots. Those who take the bus will be waiting in the cold and near total darkness, putting their safety at risk as well. c) The day will be too long for young children. For children in after-school programs at Disney, the Park District and elsewhere, the day will be significantly longer, as working parents will still be unable to pick up their children until 5:30 or 6:00 pm. Given the earlier start time, students will be out of their homes as much as 12 or more hours per day. This will cause increase stress and fatigue for children and limit family time, as bedtimes will have to be earlier as well.