The Utah Education Association PAC’s endorsement of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert cannot be allowed to distract Utahns from talking about the facts regarding the lack of support Utah teachers and schools have received under the Herbert Administration. We can all agree Utah has the best teachers, parents, and family oriented communities in the country. All of this is true in spite of a chronic lack of support for our students and teachers from Utah's state government. We are calling on Utahns to show their support for a new administration that will lead a reform of our education system, where teachers can once again be proud of their profession, where the state leads the nation in education – not follows behind in last place – and where the Governor’s Office stands shoulder to shoulder with Utahns for a better education.

Call for UTD to release school by school revote numbers

While Sallie Mae and other greedy loan institutions continue to pillage at the expense of hard-working students, we have a chance to return back to the Land of Milk & Honey. What I am proposing is a 1% interest rate on ALL student loans to be paid back when the student has found FULL-TIME work. Since we have endured years of economic recession, its time to set the record straight on student loans and regain the American Dream. The American people are being forced to choose between feeding their families and insane interest rates for their student loans (set at 7%-35%). We will continue the good fight on Capitol Hill and on the streets of this proud nation. We challenge corporate lobbyists and lenders such as Sallie Mae to come clean and be transparent with their money making schemes!

The Jacksonville School District 117 in Jacksonville, Illinois, has implemented drastic austerity measures that include CLOSING some neighborhood elementary schools. We urge Jacksonville School District 117 to renovate ALL Elementary Schools instead of closing any of them. Closing neighborhood schools is detrimental to neighborhoods, lowers property values, and decreases the neighborhood population over time. Closing a school is a permanent action that harms education. It also threatens neighborhoods by reducing property values, causing an exodus of homeowners, and eliminating a community focal point. Studies show smaller neighborhood schools help to reduce the achievement gap, provide better education, and bridge socio-economic differences. Neighborhood schools are sites of educational excellence, and are anchors for their neighborhoods and our historic districts. By signing this petition, we, the homeowners, parents, business owners and residents of Jacksonville, Illinois, want the Jacksonville School District 117 Board Members, and Administration, to know that we OPPOSE any plans to close Jacksonville's Neighborhood Elementary Schools, and ask the School Board to rescind their decision to close Franklin Elementary School.

I have been a working American for almost my whole life. And today, I'm still repaying a loan from 1981. The more I pay the more in debt I become. Sign this petition to help me and others like me who've been paying a lifetime of student loans and all I wanted was to better myself and lead a productive life. I have a great job, but that's it -- a job. I would like a career, afterall it's costing me near $100,000 I consumed to get a career. Help me America, help me life. Paycheck to paycheck is not living.

I do not feel that the forgiveness act is a good idea, because it allows people to rack up huge debt for an education and allows them to have no debt, nor responsibility to that debt. What are they actually learning? That it is okay to rack up huge debt because the government will wipe your slate clean. I propose that the government view each individual loan that is presented to them and not wipe their debt clean, but rather base their debt on how much they are earning 6 months to a year after graduation.

The UC Board of Directors continually raises tuition on its students every year by more than 5 times the rate of inflation. At the same time, the Board of Directors keeps approving raises for its board members by of 5- 25% of their current salaries. There are currently over 1,000 people in the UC System earning over $200,000 a year. This is unacceptable for a public education institution. Please help put a stop to the undeserved raises and help keep tuition costs low.

Loan forgiveness for BS degree and Educatioo on a whole

Many single mothers like Me that are studying to provide a better future to their family should receive a waiver for the student loans that must be paid after six month of graduation. Right now I am unemployed and I am studying full time. Thanks to my entire family I might be able to finish, but it is hard to pay sixty thousand dollars or more after graduation.

Politicians are cutting funds to public education. For American students to be competitive in the 21st century global market they need to have a quality education. Legislatures need to fund schools first. Americans believe every student should be eligible for a free public education. The sad truth is our government doesn't want to use our tax dollars to pay for that education. We are creating a society of haves and have nots based on the educational opportunities available to our children. We need to be outraged at how other countries are outpacing the United States of America in prioritizing the educating of their children. The other industrial nations are making education one of their top goals, currently America is not.

Stimulate the economy

Free higher education in not a new idea. In fact, its given to many people in countries around the world. Countries such as Norway, Denmark, Finland, Scotland, France, Italy, Spain and Germany in Europe, to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, to Morocco and Kenya in Africa, to Argentina, Peru and Brazil in South America, all give higher education to its people. However, here in the United States higher education has skyrocketed! It's gotten so bad that higher education is only attainable from a family that's wealthy. The economy has changed so much over the decades that many jobs in the workforce now require a masters or even a Ph.D. Implied by this is the realization that many will be doomed to a lifetime of poverty without higher education. I believe that higher education is not only a means to economic security but a human right as well! I propose that we give free higher education (including graduate education) to everyone who wants it. We can pay for this proposal by levying a financial transaction tax raising the needed money to fund it. Let's do the right thing for our country. Give us free higher education!