• Redaction % rate for private student loan
    Private St. loan is night mare for moust borrover.
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    Created by Ilya
  • Dark Knight Shooting a Call to Stop Violence
    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.
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    Created by Michael Call
  • Education Funds being raised in the wrong place
    My petition is about parents and students standing on street conors collecting money for activities at schools this is to dangerous.
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    Created by Robin Joiner
  • Re-establish Pell Grants for Displaced Workers & Older Returning Students
    The recent Pell Grant cuts have limited the amount of eligible semesters from 15 to 12--regardless if you received the maximum amount of grant or not. Many people that were laid off were told to return to school and get additional training. If you are in your late 20's and above, this more than likely means that you will not receive a grant--regardless of need, excellent grades, or future contribution to society once you have graduated.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Toyia Washington
  • Student Loan Discharge
    Trapped in high student loans and high interest rates. I don't make enough money to cover the monthly loan amount. Afraid to continue higher education of accumulating higher debt. At this rate getting ahead seems impossible.
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    Created by Vanzi Wright
  • Sex education in schools
    Sex education should not be banned from any school.
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    Created by Florermina Villanueva
  • Forgive old student loans for retirees on Social Security
    Because interest accumulates during student loan deferment periods, the balance on student loans exceeds the principal more than once during a borrower's lifetime. The result is that borrowers are stuck with student loan debt when they retire on Social Security, even if they had paid back their principal once or twice. Many of the student loan forgiveness bills apply only to loans taken out during the past 10 or 20 years and ignore old student loans.
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    Created by Linda Seltzer
  • Cancel student loan interest during unemployment and hardship deferments
    Borrowers shouldn't be asked to repay the principal on their student loans twice. But that is the current situation. During periods of unemployment, when people have an unemployment or hardship deferments, the interest continues to accumulate. Currently, for loans consolidated before 1994, the interest is locked at 8%. During the deferment period, interest continues to accrue. The interest exceeds the amount that the borrower has already paid back and the balance reverts to even more than the original principal. The result is that student loan borrowers are being forced to pay pack their loans twice or even three times. Some of the legislation to help borrowers applies only to relatively recent student loans and not to old student loans that are still being repaid.
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    Created by Linda Seltzer
  • $1B for science, math teachers
    The Obama administration unveiled plans to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students' achievement in science, technology, engineering and math. Math and science literacy is crucial to the long-term health of our economy and culture. Tell your Congressmen to vote for implementation of this plan.
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    Created by Dee Shneiderman
  • Student loan forgiveness
    I am drowning in my student loan debt. The economy is horrible and I am bartending part time to make ends meet. I am $45,000 in debt with student loans and any help with this would be greatly appreciated! I currently live in California but my education was completed in Wisconsin.
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    Created by Sarah Inczauskis
  • Black Sambo Must Go!
    Join the Charlotte Black/African-American Heritage Tour in demanding the removal of disgraceful symbols of our past off the city-owned Time Warner Cable Arena, home of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.
    186 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Jay Whipple
  • Education Policy Should be Decided by Educators
    Public education policy in the United States is under attack from a variety of directions. Corporate influences want to push for a for-profit model to tap into what they see as an untapped source of income. Misguided "reformers" want to push to end basic due-process protections for teachers in a quest to root out the insignificant numbers of "bad teachers." Politicians continue to push for "teacher accountability" while ignoring the accountability of the parties that control student achievement the most; parents and students. Meanwhile, our education system, our dedicated teachers, and our students all suffer further degradation of their morale.
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    Created by Jeremy Merrill