Governor Quinn has made several proposals to change teacher pensions in Illinois! We believe Governor Quinn's proposals violate the Illinois constitution! We believe the proposals are not FAIR! Teachers have lived up to our TRS commitments—the state did not! "There they go again!" The Governor is focusing on cutting retired benefits not creating new revenue streams! Governor—the pension problem is a revenue problem—we need a graduated income tax. We need to close fat cat corporate loopholes! The governor's proposals will have a harmful impact on current teachers and make education a less attractive career for younger people. Teaching is a stressful career and burnout is a problem—these proposals will only increase the burnout potential. His proposal applies to active employees enrolled in the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) and the State Universities Retirement System (SURS). The proposal that the Governor outlined would be posed to members as a choice. The choice would be for members to choose this benefit package and receive their health insurance or for members to keep the pension benefit structure they currently are afforded but their future salary increases would not count toward their pension, and their health insurance benefits would be dramatically reduced or eliminated. Again, the details are minimal and the implications of many of these ideas have not been fully fleshed out by the governor.

Support the student loan forgivness act of 2012

The Challenger Reef Petition Project is trying to get all the children in Americas schools and their parents to sign a Petition to have the pieces of the Challenger Space Shuttle configured into a Living Reef of the coast of the Kennedy Space Center as an attraction and National Monument in honor of the astranauts that lost their lives that chilly Morning Jan 28, 1986 Dan Rather called it a National Disaster.. Lets make it a National Monument!!!

Petitioning Congress and the Fed to adjust interest rates on student loans to the same overnight rate the Fed charges banks. An educated populace is more important to the nation than a bank that makes money loaning money to itself.

We know for sure reducing classroom size increases results. Let's demand our lawmakers introduce a law that the government fully funds every public school K -12 classroom so that they have less than 25 students. Nothing else in this bill. No frills. No Fat. Just improve our kids education. Now.

It's about providing a sensible, appropriate, accessible, RELEVANT education for ALL kids, regardless of socioeconomic background. You should care because testing kids to death and using test scores as a major determinant of teacher effectiveness is creating disenfranchisement in the youth and is causing good teachers to leave the profession.

EDUCATION AND STUDENT LOANS

JFK do not have a girl step team, junior varisty cheer squad, or other sports and exrtacurricular activities for the students. The schools need better school leaders as well.

Tell congree that were fed up with these preditorial students loans that are cripling our country and lives .Sign the petition to forgive all student loans now!

HAVE A SCHOOL LOAN THAT I CANT NOT MAKE THE PAYMENTS DUE TO INTEREST RATE AND COST OF CLASSES- ALSO MY JOB DOES NOT PAY ME ENOUGH TO MAKE THE PAYMENTS AND LIVE

Students who have finished college and are in the job market obtained their degrees with the belief that they would obtain secure employment. Most of these people are drowning in debt and have NOT been able to get the employment that was their goal. Let's help the underemployed and unemployed with student loan forgiveness.

Regarding the much debated issue of school choice, it's the children who should have a say in such choices. When the said choice is whether or not a child is to be sent to a private charter school, the charter school in question should offer all of the choices that the public school alternative would offer. Also, considering that chidren gain appreciation of various peers, they should not be denied the opportunity to make educational choices based on their appreciation of their peers. To allow the child to make his or her own choices is not to live his or her life for him or her.