Allowing bankruptcy on private student loans again would be a huge boost to the economy. Most of todays students are over their heads in student loan debt. The fact the cost of college has continued to raise at an all time high, while the amount businesses are paying you to work is lower than that of the of the 80's based on growth, is actually turning kids away from college.

The whole world uses the metric system of measurement, except for the US, Burma, and Liberia. The time has come for the America to go metric, too. It would save time and money if we taught only the metric system in our schools. It would also eliminate confusion for our children, in having to learn 2 systems of measurement, when just the metric system would suffice.

In 2005, Congress removed bankruptcy protections from private student loans, making private student debt one of two types of debt not dischargeable in bankruptcy. This decision was made after intense and well-funded lobbying by corrupt corporations who had no qualms about creating a permanently debt-enslaved working class with no legal rights or recourse. Education shouldn't lead to penury, and the corporations which are happy to profit off of the misery of millions of Americans shouldn't have the right to do so because their money buys them the Congressional access to make it happen.

The cost of sending a child to college can cause financial hardship on many working Kentucky families and those drawing unemployment . In wake of Appalachians massive recent layoffs in the mining industry higher education may not be attainable for many Kentucky students . Let's get together and ask gov. Steve Beshure to lower the cost of Kentucky college tuition in light of our economic hardship and not allow kentukys youth to be left behind in education.

People should sign the petition to put an end to disruption in our classrooms and violence in our schools by supporting the adult staff members who are in a position to change the hostile environment preventing all students from succeeding.

There are too many out of state students admitted to VA colleges forcing the taxpayers here to subsidize other states red ink. VA colleges should be for Virginians with no more than 5% admitted from other states. Once that happens the taxpayers in VA will be more willing to better fund state institutions

as a former high school student, i have issues with the food distribution system where i frequently didn't eat because i didn't have a place to sit.

This petition is about the high tuition cost at state universities in Kentucky. Parents and/or students are looking at massive amount of debt with the rising costs.

Last week I learned that my 19 year old cousin had been kicked out of her home by her own mom, for no reason other than she could no longer collect child support on behalf of my cousin. Beyond that, I learned that my cousin's mother also refuses to help my cousin co-sign her FAFSA paperwork so that my cousin can claim financial aid and attend a Virginia state college to earn a degree. My cousin sought support from my uncle, a bus driver who claimed just over $30,000 in earnings in 2011. My uncle helped her fill out the necessary paperwork to see what financial aid my cousin could receive to attend Radford or any other school in Virginia. She was awarded $5,000 - a generous gift, but not enough to cover the nearly $20,000 per year cost to attend Radford or other Virginia colleges. I find this outrageous. I graduated from Godwin High School in Richmond, VA in 2005, and opted to attend an out-of-state school in South Carolina. My tuition cost to attend an out-of-state school was approximately $25,000 per year, and I was lucky to have the financial support of my parents and their help to secure my own loans to pay for school. Many students choose to study at a school in their home state, simply because they are unable to afford the cost difference between attending a state school and a school in a different state. Now you're telling me that I could've chosen USC or Radford and still graduated with nearly the same amount of student loan debt? That's insane. Moreover, some states in the U.S. offer an incentive to ANY high school student who graduates with a particular GPA, or who excel in a Math or Science related field. In South Carolina, that's known as the LIFE scholarship. In Georgia, it's known as the HOPE scholarship. I don't know off the top of my head, but I can imagine there are similar programs in other states as well. I could be wrong, but I don't know of a program that exists like this that is funded by the state of Virginia and is accessible to all Virginia high school students. I appreciate and understand the immense challenge that our legislators face in balancing our state budget, but investing in our students and allowing them a clearly defined path to attend a Virginia state school will pay off handsomely in the future of our state. It's a remarkably daunting task to choose what services and programs to cut or fund, but I can't support legislators who choose to make access to affordable education seem impossible for good students like my cousin, who feel like they're on their own. She knows she will have to work hard. She knows she will likely need a full time job while studying full time. She knows all of this, but she wants more than anything to create a better situation for herself than the one she finds herself in right now.

This petition is an effort to convince Governor Heineman and heads of Nebraska Universities to lower tuition costs statewide. By lowering tuition costs we can open up educational opportunities to disadvantaged students and ease the student loan debt for those post-college.

WE ARE INTERESTED IN SIGNING A PETITION ABOUT THIS ESSUE SO ALL KIDS GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO COLLEGES EDUCATION AND NO FAMILY WOULD END ON DEBT

Governor Lynch and the governors of our state colleges: please lower the tuition at New Hampshire state colleges and universities so that families are not priced out of an education for their children.