I think everyone has been personally affected by this issue. All teenagers coming out of high school should have a basic understanding of personal finance, including credit cards, credit scores, interest rates, loans, saving for retirement, 401K's and basic saving strategies. They should also be given specific examples of strategies for success and, conversely, what not to do. It is all too easy for young kids to make mistakes that take them years, sometimes decades from which to recover, and it is imperative that we arm them with the knowledge to make the best decisions possible in their early lives, especially in regard to their finances.

On Sunday, the Chicago Teachers Union announced the first Chicago teacher's strike in almost 25 years. They are fighting against school privatization, closures, and stagnant wages. Ninety-eight of our Chicago schools don't have playgrounds, and 160 schools don't have libraries at all. Forty percent of our schools do not have full time art and music programs, and the entire system is desperately lacking support staff, including counselors and school nurses. The lack of investment in schools is bad for teachers—but it's devastating for our children. As the parent of two children in the Chicago Public Schools, I stand with the Chicago public school teachers.

My school system has lost all fine arts programs for elementary schools and teachers have had several furlough days while the football program and coaches have sacrificed nothing. Enough is enough. The title is "Student- Athlete". Student comes first!

Student loans are owned by the United States government and should be free of interest. Now that this form of debt has topped $1,000,000,000 (Trillion) it hardly seems like a good way to reward those who seek the education required to compete in today's global markets. Students and their families are profoundly affected by this debt and it is affecting the futures of our youth and their families by saddling them with untenable debt before they even get out of the starting gate. With no interest these debts will vanish earlier and put these dollars to work on building families. This should be done immediately and retroactively.

Every political race claims that public education needs improving.but they have no idea how to "fix" something teachers and students have not broken. There is always need for improvement, (districts are always providing trainings), but more testing kids, phony teacher evaluations, and private-for-profit vouchers are NOT the way to do it. There is growing recognition, especially in Florida, that schools are being made to "fail" so private-for-profit companies can provide alternatives. Taking education out of the hands of educators is wrong for the sake of students, teachers, and the future of U.S. citizens.

10% of the grand sum of all campaign spending should go to a special citizen fund for educational scholarships or infrastructure repair.

On Tuesday night, Rahm Emanuel, the Mayor of Chicago, is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. This is a slap in the face to the thousands of Chicago public school teachers currently fighting for a fair contract in the face of an aggressive pro-corporate "reform" agenda pushed by Emanuel and his administration.

We teach sex ed in schools, and we teach our kids how to protect themselves against pregnancy and disease, but we don't teach how to protect themselves against violence. We say the purpose of sex ed is to teach protection, but we don't teach them all the ways they need to be protected.

This bill gives benfits to benefits of aid to education with KY & OH offering IN STATE TUTION. ONLY after 9/11/01. THIS NEEDS TO INCLUDE ALL VETERANS. At this struggling time of economy students are now faced how to get an education. Some may not even be able to get loans to attend. THIS IS A BENEFIT ALL DESERVE. If a soldier fought for his COUNTRY they deserve NOT just if they servered after 9/11/01!UNFAIR UNACCEPTABLE. Help our children today when they need it.

Well I'm a student at York College. Recently their been changes to our tuition, now we have to pay a part of our tuition. I had to pay $123.00, towards my bill. I was very un-clear about this change. I was used to having Tap and Pell cover this part. This made things a bit hard for me because not only I have to pay for this also my daughter's day care. It is getting a bit expensive because I also work at a minimum wage job that does pay as much. I'm struggling to go to school and work because I still have other bills to pay. I thought Finical aid can ease the stress by paying this portion it will make life a lot easy. I'm worried about other students does not have a jobs How are they going to pay for school ? Even worse they have to pull out a loan!! This could effect one's credit and life!!

Somehow , Masachusetts has the best education system in the country and are rated the 2nd best state in terms of loving their kids according to the highly respected Kids Count study by the Annie E Casey Foundation. Yet they pay no sales tax on clothes , 6.25 percent on other items .Why , because of split role. Here in sunny California we pay close to or at 10 percent and did poorly in Kids Count 41st and are very low in education . How do they do it ? Split Role , they got it and we don't.

My daughter attends Edgelea Elementary School. I went to eat lunch with her, to find that they had only 15 minutes for lunch, 7 minutes of that was standing in line. There were children horking their food on the way to the trash can to maximize their intake before lining up. I thought my daughter was talking too much during lunch, she barely said a word to me and only had time to finish half her chocolate milk, half a taco, and a small bit of her cooked carrots (which she always finishes at home). Needless to say, I WAS APPAULED!