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!

An Educational program that produces righteous leaders

Please let education be free to ALL Americans to set them up for LIFE needed skills.

Robert Applebaum has started a conversation with his petition to call on Congress to enact Student Debt relief from the millions of us who have burdensome student loan debt. I believe that tuition fees for students that work hard to make it to college, then to be burdened with tuition fee debt later on, are a obstacle to progress and growth in this country.

Forgiving long time student loans

In the state of Minnesota the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities are planning another tuition hike because of the lack of state support. Programs and faculty are being cut at a time when citizens need access to affordable public education.

We call upon House Speaker Michael Madigan, Minority Leader Tom Cross, Governor Pat Quinn, and Governor Quinn’s Pension Reform Committee: Senator Noland, Senator Brady, Representative Nekritz, and Representative Senger to hold more public forums to debate the pension issue before ramming damaging legislation through the Illinois General Assembly. Whereas the State of Illinois has failed to fund pension obligations for 40 years for teachers and public employees who are not eligible for Social Security, we also call on the above mentioned leaders to uphold the Illinois Constitution and seek fair and viable pension funding solutions.

Hello, my name is Shay La Price, and I am-was in a two year Medical Assisting Program at the votec. I thought I would be a certified Medical Assistant by next year when I graduated school. Unfortunately three days ago, they told us they no longer wanted to continue our program due to “budget cuts”. If money is an issue, then why did they buy Ipads they no longer let students use anymore, and build an entire café on the bottom of the votec? Too add more fuel to the fire, the only class they are doing this too is the Medical Assisting class because it’s” new”. There are many students who next year thought our program would have already been accredited like they promised and swore up and down they would in 2010-2011, and there are 2nd year students who were supposed to be Certified M.A.’s this year because they promised them that it would get done. No longer can we do this, because once again they lied to them as well, and now two years of their life is wasted. All of us both the 2nd years and 1st just want to finish our program, and know that some of us did not waste one or two years of our education. In the second year class I believe 7 are involved, but not sure. In the first year there are 14 of us. Here is a list of some of the students involved.