One of the most sure-fire ways to ensure a better future is a college education. For many fields, this includes post-graduate studies. For several years, the first $8500 of a graduate student's loan was subsidized, meaning that no interest accrued until six months after leaving college or graduating. As a doctoral student at Temple University, I expected this when I went to sign for this year's student loan. However, thanks to an act of Congress, all graduate student loans are now unsubsidized. With several graduate students losing scholarships and teaching opportunities due to budget cuts, this hits us on both ends. It is time to reinstate subsidized graduate student loans. Do we want a society with fewer doctors, lawyers, librarians, teachers, professors, social workers, and librarians? The time has come to stop making it more difficult for students to afford college.

Not personally affected, but this is one other sign of the way in which religious fundamentalists hinder knowledge and progress due to their own fears that their beliefs will be found faulting.

MAD AS EVER AND IT IS TIME TO PUT PEN TO PAPER Letter to Congressional Reps and Senators: Let me start off by saying I am not going to mince words, I will shoot straight from the hip and tell you how POOR of job you are doing and have been doing in reference to college students and student loans. You can do WAY MORE then what you have done! Instead you allow the laws to college enrollment to be changed for the WORST and at the most financially inopportune time. I am 3 semesters into earning a degree in Public Relations and Journalism to be notified by email that this Fall I would have to pay 100% of my tuition at the time of registering for class. Now I know because you get a WOPPING tax-payer salary the rest of us are not so fortunate! You use the tax-payer money to pay your child’s college tuition to position them to become the next succubus on the tit of the American tax-payer AND THEY DON’T HAVE TO PAY BACK A PENNY IN STUDENT LOANS! Now I am sure that common sense is not so common so let me continue …. How in the world if over 8% are unemployed, and have been for some time, do think they are going to come up with the money to pay for the OVER INFLATED price for the piece of paper from a college/university? Better yet pay for books that are over-priced and are out-of-date at the end of the semester they were purchased – so there is not even the possibility to get some of our funds back. REALLY!? Understand this NOT Obama's doing, it's the doing of you weak backed, limp-wristed politicians that are stealing the tax-payer money by not DOING YOUR JOB AND PLAY AROUND ON THE CLOCK! Now the Republicans and LAZY Democrats have found yet another way to break down the middle class, divide families, dampen hopes and DESTROY dreams! We voted for you = WE HIRED YOU TO DO A JOB THAT YOU HAVE BEEN LESS THEN SUCCESSFUL IN MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS OF THIS POSITION, come November I will make sure YOU WILL NOT GET ANOTHER VOTE FROM ME AND ANYONE THAT WILL LISTEN! Your time in office needs to come to a screeching halt just like all of us that were in the middle of degrees and don’t have the finances to complete them. Believe it or not there are those of us who don’t believe in doing a job halfway or QUITTING IN THE MIDDLE. We elected you to be our voice, you have YET to be seen or heard now that you all have manged to mess it all up and want to blame the Black man. I am more than a little upset and disgusted with your lack of enthusiasm for your position and IT IS TIME SOMEONE ELSE HAS YOUR JOB! DISGUSTED YOU WERE EVEN VOTED INTO OFFICE, Pharice Brown Tax-payer, Student, Mother and Business Owner

The average college student will not graduate in four years; therefore, the limitation on Pell Grants should be repealed. Millions of underprivileged students rely on this source of funding for education.

A bill was passed by the state legislature to ban Sex Education in public schools. We (AS - IN ) all of us need to get the governors attention to veto this ban. Like, if you Agree.

the reason I would like this signed is because I myself was diagnosed with a learning disability just because I struggle in math and some of my daily living skills. Also the school I went to wouldn't listen to my parents very much until the time when I was in highschool

i AM 66 Y/O N STILL BEING HARRASSED FOR PAYMENT OF A STUDENT LOAN IN EXCESS OF 15 Y/O, i AM RECEIVING DISABILTY AND CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY THE LOAN. i HAD TO SAVE 2 YEARS TO REPLACE A BEDTHAT EXACERBATED MY OSTEOARTHRITIS BECAUSE THE LOANS HAVE DEMOLISHED MY CREDIT. THE PROCESS IN PLACE NOW FOR DISABLED PEOPLE IS HORRENDOUS, THEY REMOVE IT, THEN ITS PLACED BACK ON YOUR CR NUMEROUS TIMES, ATTEMPTS TO RECTIFY THIS GOES ON DEAF EARS. HELP!!!!

I am a teacher. Nuff said!!!

Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Hunter S! We need truthful, concise, objective history. Read from all sides, debate, form an opinion; instead of a sugar coated half truth! We need leaders who think for themselves, not memorizing dates. Fox News sound bites are trite and offensive! Civil rights for all, teach a class society, a racist, homophobic, anti over zealous truth to our youth! Let them chose not be brainwashed by our propogandized money run nation! Yes, I'm a bit biast towards the left; but teach all sides. In short form not force an opinion ( I don't even have children!). Civil rights and public disclosure; we owe it to the new generation's not formed by reality TV and biast news. Knowledge is freedom, not force fed lies.

Education

Let's stop dumbing down our students, by eliminating yet another skill. It would be a shame, if one day only archaeologists had an understanding of cursive writing.

Due to budget cuts over the Springerville Ranger District, the Big Lake Visitor Center has been closed and there are no longer any interpretive and educational programs for visitors and their families to enjoy. The Arizona Natural History Association, a nonprofit organization, is willing to assist funding and staffing of their own personnel at the Big Lake Visitor center and intends to fund the staff by the sale of educational items, forest novelties and local and state print items. All additional proceeds go to the future development and upkeep of the Big Lake Visitor Center. With this petition, we would like to show the National Forest Service how important the Big Lake Visitor Center and interpretive programming is to all who visit the Big Lake Recreation Area.