When I went to nursing school, I came out with a student loan that caused no hardships to pay it back. Today the fees are so expensive that even if you get a great job, it is taking half your check. A BS is costing approx $300,000 and a lawyer or P.hd, well you could only imagine. You come out of school with almost paying as long as your house payment, and very plush house at that! Student are having to stay with their parent to even afford this outrage. These are student that push them self to exhaustion just to get that degree. Why is the education costing this much? the only answer is greed!

When this petition started circling through my emails I thought it was a good idea and I still do. However I think it needs an amendment and a little common sense applied. Student Loan Debt should NOT be treated like Consumer Debt and a more basic repayment structure should be in place. "I am a slave to my student loan. I will never get married, have a home or kids since I cannot afford too.

No one should have to pay to go to college. Treating students as an income source encourages diploma-mill behavior and substandard education, and plunges much of the populace into debt at the beginning of their working lives.

Funding CA School Campaign is about increasing revenue for K-12 through higher education. Millions of dollars are spent each election cycle on lobbying and political campaigns. Yet, there has been significant cuts to our education system because of the budget crisis. College tuition has continued to increase year after year making it harder for students to afford a college degree which is required to obtain a well paying job. Lets invest in our future.

My proposal to alter the way the bankruptcy code is designed to give student debtors a chance. Why? As it stands right now, the ONLY WAY to discharge your student loans (private or federal) is to either DIE or become disabled/unable to work. Unfortunately, neither of these is a great option for the borrower. There is no option out there for those who cannot pay their student loans. Even if you die or become disabled THIS DOES NOT PROTECT YOUR CO-SIGNERS! If by some miracle a judge grants you a discharge, the banks can turn around and go after your co-signers. This means your parents, friends, aunts, uncles, next-door neighbor, or that generous hobo with amazing credit you met down the street will have YOUR LOANS hanging over their heads. This does not change anything for you because now that the banks have stopped hounding you, your co-signers will start! They did a nice thing for you and looked out for your future; it would be a shame to leave them out to dry. Benefits of Altering the Bankruptcy Code: 1. Banks, schools, and Sallie Mae will stop their predatory lending strategies because people will file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy if they cannot pay their ridiculous loans with sky-high interest rates. Banks will make safer bets. 2. Banks will be less generous in how much they give out. How is this beneficial? a. It will force schools to push federal loans on students instead of private ones (the government is much fairer than banks in its lending practices). b. Incoming students (and their parents) will consider going to more affordable state schools. If you get in to Harvard, BY ALL MEANS go to Harvard--but what is the difference between a $20,000 degree from from Rutgers University and a $200,000 degree at Seton Hall University? Answer: It will take an additional 20 years to pay off your student loans from Seton Hall, if you ever do. c. Colleges and universities will give out more grants and scholarships to attract students instead of just offering to help them obtain loans. 3. Banks will rely on co-signers less. Firstly, they will be protected when you file Chapter 7. And secondly, there is no longer a guarantee that if you can’t pay someone else must. Ever notice no matter how good your credit is, a bank will make you get a co-signer? It’s a way for it to guarantee payment even if you die. 4. It will provide an option for those people who simply are not able to pay their loans, cannot find jobs, and did not benefit from the $150,000 they spent on that degree in fine art. Many of us know first hand how hopeless and trapped you feels when the choice is between feeding your family and paying your student loans. Bottom Line: Anyone can take a trip to Vegas (or Atlantic City) tomorrow, borrow $100,000 from a casino, gamble it away, and have it discharged by a judge a few months later because he or she lost his or her job. A degenerate or irresponsible gambler can get the protection of the government from the banks; why can't ambitious and responsible students get that same protection?

With so many people in default on student loans, I believe people have simply given up because they see it as so daunting and as a situation that's impossible to escape. Despair is what is causing these defaults. When a person makes payments for years and the capital remains unchanged at some point they begin to see it as pointless to continue. Deduct all payments made from the initial capital and restructure each loan to include only the capital to be repaid. This would keep money coming in to fund new loans and give people hope in the possibility to repay the loan.

Children are bored and depressed in public schools today. They do not learn because the curriculum and instruction are lifeless and drill-oriented. The curriculum needs to be broadened. Sitting still without talking for long periods of time is not conducive to learning. This does not prepare students for the real world of today's industry. They need to learn to collaborate and think together to solve problems. They need to be encouraged to be creative. Teachers need to be allowed to use differentiated instruction with students who are bored or feel stupid.

We have to have 25 Teachers sign petition for the southern California locations.

Dennis Walcott is unqualified. He lacks the credentials and training to be a chancellor. Since his appointment by Mayor Bloomberg,who has never taught, teaching morale has sunk to an all-time low. There has been no real improvement in the test scores. As a future grandparent of the public school system I am appalled at the awful state of affairs going on in our public schools. Children are shuffled at the whem of the mayor and the chancellor and the parents and children are all very unhappy.This needs to come to an end.

What makes a university special? The students and faculty, of course -- but also the programs and places that make an institution of higher learning truly special. Bowling Green State University is fortunate to have an internationally recognized Popular Culture Program that is housed in a very special (and appropriate) building -- a Montgomery Ward catalog house, known as a Wardway kit house, that was the home of several presidents before Pop Culture took up residency there in the 1970s. The Popular Culture Building is one of the last Wardway kit houses to be constructed, and lovers of both history and pop culture can appreciate what it says about small-town living in the years before the Depression. No one who understands the building's history would want to lose a treasure like this; please sign this petition to tell the BGSU administration that they must not raze the Popular Culture Building, a distinctive and significant part of BGSU's culture.

Private St. loan is night mare for moust borrover.

As we have witnessed yet another tragic act of violence, we need to renew our resolve to strengthen the moral fabric our nation. Violence can only cease when all human beings love, cherish, and respect human life. Not only must we teach children to love, cherish, and respect human life in our homes and in our places of worship, but also in our schools.