My petition is regarding the Social Security benefit for children when one or both parents has passed away. In 1981 this benefit changed for children after they completed high school! Before then, the benefit continued unitl the child turned 21 or 22. I was told when the government thought Social Security was going away, they made changes to many benefits, and this was one of them. As we see, Social Security is still here 31 years later! This benefit needs to be return for chldren wanting to go to college, who have one or no parents living to help support them through college. Financial Aid is not enough to get these children through college! They are accomulating mountains of student loans, when this benefit could help them offset some of their college expenses! Do the right thing and help these children attending college! Their parents worked years and paid into the system, and now they do not have the support they need to get a decent education! Please return this Benefit effective immediately!!!

My petition is about foregiveness loan, wih so many budget cut, the employment is not going up but down. This why I'm petition for the forgivenes loan. Some individual really don't know how to live from day, today, today or to go without. Just take a minute to look around, just to see where the ecomonic going. The government is making bad decision as far as our country.

Subject: Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 Hi, I signed a petition to the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and President Barack Obama, which says: "Total outstanding student loan debt in America is expected to exceed $1 TRILLION this year. Millions of hardworking, taxpaying, educated Americans are being crushed under the weight of their educational debts, while the economy continues to sputter. Support a REAL economic stimulus and jobs plan. Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (H.R. 4170)." Will you sign this petition too? Click here: http://signon.org/sign/support-the-student-loan?source=s.fwd.in&r_by=3805676 Thanks!

Student Loan Forgiveness

If light of recent events, in which Rep. Foxx appears to have no idea what current higher education costs are and no sympathy with those having to pay back the incredibly expensive loans incurred with a college degree, I would submit that the U.S. House of Representatives should remove her from the position of Chairwoman of the Sub-Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Training and censure her.

I teach History and when I search for filmed material to use as backup I am faced with the fact that much of our History is un-known. Filmmakers do not publish things that don't sell in a mass audience. Virtually all of the exploration and surveying of our West was done by the US Army and when it was done, it was locked away forever. We sent an Sea exploration around the world in the mid 1800s, that team found the continent of Antarctica and made the initial surveys of our West. We know little of this. I can think of lots of blank spots that deserve to be filmed by our government and distributed for educational purposes.

As a community we need to stop the officials in East Greenwich from doing asbestos abatement and mold removal from a local elementary school while there are children and staff in the building. At Meadowbrook Farms in East Greenwich, RI there is a large group of parents that will not send their children to school if this construction takes place while school is in session. Please help us keep the children safe from toxic exposure.

The South Huntington Board of Education has the potential to restore the Challenge program in our schools that was lost during last year's budget process. We're calling on the Board of Education to reverse this cut and demonstrate that they value academics first and foremost in our schools. Please join us at the Board of Education meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at Walt Whitman High School and let your voice be heard.

Save music programs in the upper darby grade schools. people should care about this because next year when you work to stand up on a stage and play an instrament in front of the school they would of done all of that work for nothing !! you should sign this so we can learn lots of new songs so when we come out on to a stage and we can have a butiful smileing adenuce the deadling for this issue is may 23.

Creating Awareness of wearing uniforms in school could help eliminate bullying and harrasement from students. The uniforms can help to prevent gangs from forming. It can create more of a community environment with students. Uniforms can diminish the economic and social barrier between students. And schools that already have uniforms in place have seen a change with grades,attendance and a better work atmosphere for the students.

Like school systems across the state, the Waynesboro School System is facing a deficit for the 2012-2013 school year. With 22 positions lost two years ago and additional cuts made last year, the budget cannot be trimmed further without serious detriment to our students. Quality schools result in lowered crime rates, increased property values, employment, and many other factors that define vibrant communities. As citizens of Waynesboro, we believe investing in our schools is in our best interest.

There is so much emphasis on testing in today's schools that our children are learning nothing about actually living. Teachers are judged by the performance of their students and standardized testing. The schools are also judged. The education, therefore, it aimed at getting all the answers correct. It leaves little time for learning things not included in the tests. It leaves little time to teach children how to learn - how to understand other people - find information on subjects in which THEY are interested. How about if we made parents pass standardized tests in order to maintain their homes and families? How about if we made politicians pass standardized tests about their country and what they have and haven't done for the people in their districts? Our children should feel comfortable in school. It should be a nurturing atmosphere, not an atmosphere of fear that they will not live up to what is expected of them.