Having schools, students, and parents all held accountable for the education of our children.

On May 21, 2013 Teachers College plans to give an award to the Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, Merryl Tisch. Given Tisch's role in promoting the use of high stakes standardized testing in our schools, this award would be an endorsement of Tisch's record. TEACHERS COLLEGE NEEDS TO TAKE A STAND FOR AUTHENTIC TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT! NO AWARD FOR MERRYL TISCH!

Higher education is something that makes our country a better place to live. The more educated the population the better our country is in every way from advances in Medicine, Technology and even just day to day interactions. The idea that college tuition is not tax deductible is ridiculous. When thinking over why college tuition is not tax deductible I could only think of two reasons. 1 - The banks enjoy having our younger generations coming out of college in debt and already paying interest or 2- Our government really doesn't want an educated and informed population. I'm thinking number two is the reason and number one is a bonus for corporate America. But now it's time to make a difference. Now is the time for the average American family to stand up for what is right for our future generations. College tuition being tax deductible would change the landscape of the middle class by giving them a way to send American kids to college without it breaking their savings or having to take out a second mortgage on the family home. This money gets taxed twice, once from the people that are paying the tuition and again from the people getting paid from the tuition (The Professors). Let's do something about this today and get congress to pass a bill that will finally give the middle class some real relief by making college tuition tax deductible.

They're screwing thew educational system as well as the middle and lower class in this state.

Student Loan Victims. The stability. firmness of character and purpose of all our future economy is in jeopardy!

I have dropped my first grader off at school on several occasions, there were prisoners on school property cutting the grass and doing other work. s

students with special challenges

After High school like most 18 year old I went into college not knowing what I wanted out of life. As a result I left and joined the workforce. Now I am 29 and a single mother trying to pursue a degree in Nursing. UnfortunatelyI was told that because congress had change the rule and put a cap on the number of years you may use a pell grant I am forced to just not be able to finish college. I cannot afford to pay for it on my own so Im in a situation that seems there is no solution to. Please ask congress to lift this rule so that myself and many others like me can finish their degree.

Deborah Gist’s tenure as Rhode Island commissioner of education has been a disaster for teachers, students and parents. A recent poll of teachers commissioned by the National Education Association of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers found that 85% of teacher do not support Gist. An on-line poll by the Providence Journal showed that 79% of the more than 16,000 respondents opposed renewal of her contract. For these reasons and many more, we call on you to DUMP GIST.

This petition was made, because our chemistry teacher gave us an inadequate chemistry exam ,that jeopardized our average grades with at least 10%. *Before the exam she refused to give us similar problems ,because she didn't have time ( her exams are very unique;she is not taking exercises from any book;also we paid around 200 dollars for this course + 130 dollars for the book ). *At the end of the semester she admitted that our book is really bad even if all of our homework exercises were from this book *There was a mistake in the exam. *She didn't do with us even one single problem/exercise step-by-step - she is explaining just the idea without to do the calculations *She is never in her office during her office hours and she is never explaining with details *In the class there are people who haven't studied chemistry in the last few years ,who are working ,who have kids and who are immigrants (our mother language is not English) *On the same material when we had quizzes our grades were around 80%-100% ,now our grade on this exam is under 50 % *There are students who are paying private tutors just to keep up with this course. This problem exist since a lot of time ,but nobody had complained before that.The college administration also didn't know what is going on.I sended a letter to her ,but i still don't have a response! The same teacher will make the final exam and the chances not to pass it are also really big !! This petition is not against the teacher ,it is against her exams ,that are not based on our books! The goal of the petition is to have a chance to do the same exam with another teacher and the grades from the previous exam to be deleted!!The new exam must be made entirely from the new teacher!!

I took out a student loan in 1969. It's 2013 and I'm still paying on it. I asked the STATE OF NEW YORK if we could work a deal out, where I can pay a percentage of the balance which is about $9000. "NO YOU MUST PAY IT OFF IN ENTITRELY!" was the response I received. I'm 62 now. So the loan I took out in 1969 will not be paid off while I'm alive. There must be people in a similar situation. Even though I work in health care, shouldn't I r3eceive the same forgiveness as teacher got in the 60's and 70's?

Making sure that public funding for educational improvement is more responsible and effective. Today, much spending is made and little or no review is done to insure that recipients are made accountable for fulfilling their promises through strict post-completion reviews. Many recipients therefore learn to play successful approval routines repeatedly, while never showing real change promised. This has grave, long-term consequences that hinder our ability to prepare our children, and our nation.