Lowering the price of tuition students pay for college.

We've recently heard from MoveOn members in Louisiana who want Governor Jindal and the leaders of the state's university system to lower the cost of tuition at our state colleges—so that working families can send their kids to college without taking on massive debt.

There are many students that have defaulted on their student loans because they cannot continue to make monthly payments on these. With today's economy, many students are experiencing financial hardships. The US government needs to relieve the stress and hardships placed on our students in order for them to have a brighter future.

With all the money we spent on two unnecessary wars; private contractors for the military benefiting the private industry; IT IS TIME TO HELP OUR STUDENTS BY FORGIVING STUDENT LOANS WHICH INCLUDES AN EXORBITANT AMOUNT COVERING INTEREST.

UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan is a well-respected educational leader who has fought for incremental, consensus-based change. This was not acceptable to Helen Dragas Chair of UVa' Board of Visitors who expects a deep cutting of liberal arts departments and worked for months to engineer Sullivan's dismissal. The episode points out serious defects in UVa's governing structure. We can make this right by rehiring President Sullivan and by adding alumni and faculty-elected trustees to the Board of Visitors.

I am petitioning out of concern for those like myself whom are burdened with this. Being economically and financially unstabled with no relief in sight - to overcome the matter at hand. An escalating/unsurmontable debt is disstroying the well-being of individuals and the very fabric that entwines them!!! Very Sincerely' Your Constituents

Freddy Reynoso's death and memory is being tarnished by the flagrant harassment to pay his dead son's private student loans. Sign this petition to help me bring this to al the moving parts of the story and help Mr. Reynoso. More on the story here: http://www.propublica.org/article/grieving-father-struggles-to-pay-dead-sons-student-loans

En estos momentos tengo una hija en cuarto ano de universidad y no cualifica para beca pell y la ayudo. Por otro lado tengo otra hija de 17 anos y este semestre scomienza su ultimo ano ya que se graduara de cuarto ano. Me gustaria que se me perdonara la deuda que tengo del prestamo con sally mae.

My petition is about returning to college to further my education. So I can help provide for my daughter and prepare for her future. I am a man of strong will and my daughter means everything to me. This petition should be sign because its not about me. It really about my three year old daughter ( Mikaela Miller).

Petition is to change the way student loans are granted to prevent the accumulation of debt by people for an effectively worthless education.

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For the past several years, Seattle Public Schools has been a national leader in efforts to limit the influence of advertising in the school environment. The existing policy banned all advertising in schools because “compulsory attendance creates an obligation for the school district to protect the welfare of students”. However, on June 20, the Seattle School Board is voting to amend their current policy to ALLOW CORPORATE ADVERTISING IN THE SCHOOLS. The proposed amendment is extremely vague and allows advertising banners to be hung on school “fields” (ie, next to playgrounds) and reinstates Channel One, a controversial ad-supported classroom TV network. The proposed amendment mentions that the funds “may” be used for ASB (ie student activity funds), but it makes no promise that the funds will go there rather than to general district overhead and bureaucracy. Despite the economic crisis facing most of us, American corporations are making record profits. School districts should be TAXING corporations rather than doing their bidding for a few crumbs. (One could argue that many of these corporations created the financial crisis that drained tax revenues and increased schools’ dependence on corporations.) What can you do: - Email or call your school board members. Contact info below, along with a sample letter. - Attend the next School Board meeting on June 20 at 4:15 pm. (Testify! Hold signs! Make noise!) - Sign this ONLINE PETITION that we will deliver to the district - Educate yourself about this issue - Send this email to ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS - Share this on Facebook, etc with as many people as possible. - For more info, please contact the Occupy Seattle Public Education Working Group at [email protected] or like us on Facebook!