I was recently denied a student loan due to a foreclosure on my home this year. I was told the government changed the rules and is not making it harder for students to get the Plus loan. Also if a student has to file bankruptcy the banks are protected and the student can not include a student loan in a bankruptcy. With the recent economic decline and more people trying to go back and get re-educated the system is set up completely against self improvement and the next generation getting an education. We need the government to protect people not big banks.

In today's global economy, without post-secondary education young people have an extremely high chance of becoming destitute, then marginalized and a real burden for the entire society at some point in their lives. At a time when unemployed have created for the first time a Union of their own let's create the conditions to eliminate unemployment. Learning at least one trade which will enable them to be immediately productive for the society should be free of charge and compulsory. Instead of having tax-payers money allocated for unemployment and welfare (which are largely the effects of poor education) why not pay for eliminating the root-cause?

We have made great strides this year against bullying with the passage of Matt's Safe School Law, however more needs to be done. Currently no laws have been passed regarding cyber bullying which is currently on the rise. Victims of cyber bullying aren't able to escape the harassment inflicted on them by their peers by going home as with traditional bullying. Victims of cyber bulling have no safe place.

Sometime disabled students get sick and have to drop semesters to get well. However with the new laws in place even the disabled are subject to a limited number of Pell Grants. I believe that education will make a stronger economy but when you stop Pell Grants you cut off your nose dispite your face as a country. Let's not allow the U.S. take away our education, let's get them to see its education we need to build a stronger economy.

Books for college can cost hundreds of dollars, just for one class! That is already on top of the outrageous cost of tuition and fees. There needs to be a cap on these fees, tuition and books. Education should be affordable to everyone, not just the wealthy.

While interest rates are at an all time low, student loan rates for college and graduate students are running from 6.8-7.90%, are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, and due to recent changes by Congress, require interest to be paid by the students while in school. This heavy burden will force some students to leave school and cause others decades to repay, as tuition rates spiral while colleges and universities make millions. The interest rates need to be reduced and the debts made dischargeable

Being single most of my adult life and having to pay my own way through school but having to still take out student loans to make my education occur, I have been paying over 10 years. I feel there should be a limit on how many years you are tied down to such debt if you have paid consistantly for 10 years. There should be a break off period. I will never get ahead for taking a chance on myself to have an education. It is not like I have a masters degree; only a B.S. (ironically). We need someone to help those of us who have paid and paid to not be a burden on society so that we don't become a burden to ourselves for having gone to college. HELP!!!

Amend to include all Veternan's not just after 9/11/01. It is unfair, unacceptable. The requirement is Veteran we should have the same beneftis. This also had option in-state tuition offered to students. FL,OH & KY have adopted this policy. We were denied due to discharged in 1989, denied to apply. The door has opened if you are a student after 9/11/01 they tell yout to come in an apply, before that the door is shut no options, no benefits? Tell me this is fair? We need to help our children at a time where Fannie Mae Home Modifications are 2-4% and student loans 7.9%? We need to look at our future our children need our help today!!

Taxing bottle water in the state of Nevada, will help pay our teacher's salaries, and not lay them off. Our children's education is the best investment we can give them, and by having overcrowded classrooms, lack of teaching tools to help provide a good education, we will see a larger number in the dropout rate, because of lack of funding. It's important to strive to keep all children in school and even more so to have a higher percentage of children graduating high school.

We need to change the airport signs from fearbased orange to blue for PEACE as the default. We are now at peace...we need to see that assurance when we travel. it is really bad psychology to stay in fearbased paradigms especially when they are not representing true status.

Government backed college loans of 8%? That's right. The recent congressional action to lower interest rates only applied to undergraduate Stafford Loans. Middle class graduate students are leaving college as virtual indentured servants facing the prospects of paying for college over most of their adult lives. These are government loans, and without them the middle class cannot fulfill their dreams to enter the workplace as physical therapists, lawyers, and doctors.

Too many people over the age of 50 have school loans in which they cannot pay back and President O'Bama failed to include in the last round of student loan forgiveness. Too many of us, such as myself, have student loans that keep us from dealing with pressing health issues and affording basics. We tried to pay the loans back but somehow we got notified that we are "default" and if the loans keep up with their demands, I and others will not be able to ever retire because they will garnish our Social Security checks as well. I and others already live in poverty, living paycheck to paycheck.