The trade schools and the deregulated loan industry have caused several generations of Americans to be enslaved to repaying loans for an education that was skeletal and rudimentary at best, harmful at worst. These credits, which we were told were transferable to "any university" are not transferable at all. "Regional accrediting agency"? I personally live in Washington, yet my "credits" from Portland Oregon won't transfer to a school in Oregon, let alone Washington. I, personally, have been financially destroyed by Career Education Corp. and Stillwater bank. My student loan repayments outstrip my rent and bills. This is slavery.

Nate Silver said it best: the people creating these visualizations "are journalists in addition to being programmers and/or graphic artists: the goal is to communicate complex information clearly and accurately, and not just to make something cool or pretty. There should be a Pulitzer category for this stuff."

I attended a private university (AUI Los Angeles) and was not aware of the numerous accreditation issues and financial aid fraud claims against the university when I enrolled. The university lost accreditation and closed due to the multiple lawsuits filed against it and hundreds of students were not able to graduate, but still have hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt. The university will not return the money to the lenders, and many former students have defaulted on their loans. I'd like to start a petition to help not only the people affected by particular university, but the thousands of others facing this same problem. Profit universities should be held accountable for their wrong doings, and student loan banks should accept responsibility as well. If schools are not accredited, on probation to lose accreditation, close due to losing accreditation or sued for financial aid fraud - banks shouldn't provide funds.

My children should not feel as if they will get in trouble if they pray at school. The majority of the school populations are of Christian background; however, students should be allowed to exercise their right to pray if they choose to. With the recent Sandy Hook tragedy, our students and educators need spiritual protection as well as police protection.

Tuition recovery fund or performance bond that will cover your damages based on the school closure. Collection agencies contracted by the government continue to collect after debt is repaid or cancelled or school closure and will not refund the over payment

I learn about science, math, society, agriculture, history, EVERY element imaginable; all this I learn in a garden. We need to encourage the love of the earth, appreciate where our food comes from, help our future generations live GREEN.

Recently Roosevelt was renamed the Early College High School. This petition is to urge the Board of Education to preserve the iconic name by renaming the school to Roosevelt Early College High School

My name is Joseph Portilla, educator at Clark County School District. If you are an educator at CCSD and a CCEA member, I want to represent you on the Nevada State Education Association as Board Member Seat C. I seek to reinstate ELL and Special Education resources, reduce class size, reimburse teacher expenses, safe guard teacher advocacy and introduce a fair teacher evaluation process.

Parents, If you believe your children are entitled to school choice, sign this petition and pass it on to your friends. Remember, parents are the FIRST teacher! Join our web site at inparents.org.

Let's get all children college ready. Let's improve graduation rate.

This petition is intended to expose and put an end to certain predatory policies/practices by the servicer of thousands of educational loans in the United States. I ask that you read it carefully, sign it, and forward it to all of your friends as soon as possible to protect the thousands of borrowers currently being subjected to the disenfranchising practices described below so that we can put an end to the victimization of American student loan borrowers. Several months ago, Acapita Education Finance Corporation (“ACAPITA”), the lender for thousands of federally guaranteed student loans, transferred the servicing responsibility of thousands of the student loans owned by ACAPITA from Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. ("ACS") to Brazos Loan Servicing, Inc. ("BRAZOS"). ACAPITA made this change in student loan servicers without advance notice to its borrowers or granting its borrowers an opportunity to object to this change. While BRAZOS claims to have loan servicing policies which comply with the letter of the law, BRAZOS's loan servicing policies are significantly different from those of ACS, and these differences serve to materially disadvantage and place enormous administrative, temporal and financial burdens on borrowers whose student loans are currently serviced by BRAZOS. Some examples of the differences between ACS's loan servicing policies/practices and those of BRAZOS which serve to disadvantage borrowers include the following: 1. While ACS's student loan servicing system allows borrowers to schedule as many payments as borrowers desire on ACS’s website for up to a month into the future, BRAZOS's online payment system currently does not accept more than ONE monthly payment from a borrower per month for any loan currently in repayment. In order to make more than one instant payment in a month during a period that a borrower's loan is in repayment, BRAZOS requires the borrower to call BRAZOS's office in Texas during BRAZOS's business hours. Hold times to reach BRAZOS representatives often easily exceed 30 minutes, and in the event that a borrower is finally able to reach a representative, the borrower must give a BRAZOS representative the borrower's bank account information ANEW EACH TIME he or she calls BRAZOS. This means that, including hold time, borrower identity verification and the repeated verbal transmission of bank account information over the phone, it can easily take over 45 minutes just to make a payment on a student loan after one has already made a payment online in any particular month. Consequently, a working borrower can easily spend almost his or her entire lunch hour just attempting to make an additional payment on his or her student loan, placing a material administrative burden on the borrower and rendering payments on loans serviced by BRAZOS (beyond one payment per month) harder to make. Further, if a borrower is unable to get through to a BRAZOS representative and complete a payment transaction before 3pm on any business day, one more day of interest accrues on the borrower's account than would otherwise have been the case. This can amount to hundreds or thousands of dollars per year of unnecessary interest accumulation, depending on the borrower’s loan balance. The effect of this policy/practice of limiting a borrower’s ability to make more than one payment online per month is to give a borrower with a loan serviced by Brazos which is currently in repayment a series of increasingly burdensome options to make more than one payment per month. Such options are basically limited to the following: (a) accruing temporal, postage and interest costs to physically send payment to BRAZOS via the United States Postal Service and wait for the USPS to deliver the payment to BRAZOS, helplessly allowing hundreds or potentially thousands of dollars per year in interest (depending on the size of the loan) to accrue on the borrower’s loan while payments are in transit; (b) incurring substantial accumulated costs to pay a courier service for expedited physical delivery of payment to BRAZOS, which, while not having the same effect as an instant payment, can still save hundreds or even thousands of dollars of in interest per year, depending on the size of the subject loan; or (c) experiencing stressful and burdensome telephone hold times which, combined with redundant conversations with customer service representatives (which can easily exceed 45 minutes per instance as noted above); or (d) waiting until the following month to make the next month’s payment, helplessly accruing hundreds or potentially thousands of dollars of unnecessary interest on such loans per year (depending on the size of the subject loans) in the process. 2. While ACS’s student loan servicing system allows borrowers to make instant payments online during periods of deferment and/or forbearance, BRAZOS’s loan servicing system currently does NOT allow borrowers with loans in deferment and/or forbearance serviced by BRAZOS to make instant payments online AT ALL. Consequently, a borrower in deferment or forbearance who desires to make an instant payment MUST call BRAZOS’s office to do so. The effect of this policy is to give a borrower whose loans which are currently in deferment or forbearance and serviced by BRAZOS a series of increasingly burdensome options to make payments on such loans. Such options are limited to: (a) Accruing temporal, postage and interest costs to physically send payment to BRAZOS via the United States Postal Service and wait for the Postal Service to deliver the payment to BRAZOS, helplessly allowing hundreds or potentially thousands of dollars per year in interest to accrue on the borrower’s loan while payments are in transit, unless some portion of the borrower’s loans being serviced by BRAZOS are federally subsidized, in which case the interest on such subsidized loans is paid by the government while such loans while in deferment, but inter...

We as the students, parents, and wider community believe that while district leadership must address monetary issues, they are obligated to make decisions that are in best interest of ALL students. Merging Paul Robeson High School into Sayre High School is not in the best interest of ALL students involved.