If Governor Corbett's proposed budget is approved, Bedford County Public Schools would have lost more than $4,669,000 in funding since 2010! We must make our voice heard in Harrisburg to our legislators that they must make our children the priority and restore funding to our public schools!

The Dekalb County School District, Atlanta, GA, wants to close 11 parents' centers. These centers are located in neighborhoods where parents have been hit hard by the economic crisis. These centers are where kids do homework, borrow books, test prep; this is where kids who have no internet access or computer at home can get access. Each center serves up to 17 different neighborhoods. These centers gives parents a chance to help kids with homework and projects. The state of Georgia plans to build more prisons based on test scores and dropout rates. Please continue to give these parents the opportunity to help their kids with their education.

The concept of having free, instructional videos on a wide range of academic subjects delivered in a systematic and entertaining way is a wonderful idea. Khan Academy is at the head of class. In Salman Khan’s* own words, “With over 3,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.” This website is a national treasure. Check it out. http://www.khanacademy.org/ With the full resources of the United States government, libraries, and teachers around the country, an American Academy website could have more than a million videos, by a variety of teachers, covering the full range of human knowledge. In order for all American citizens to have the chance to compete in a global economy, start successful businesses, or have meaningful careers in the future, they need to have access to the world’s knowledge in a systematic, accessible, understandable, and entertaining fashion. This website, www.AmericanAcademy.gov**, would help students, teachers, and lifelong learners. Of course, the world will have access to American Academy. I believe that the more people know about the world, the more chances we have to solve the world’s problems. * I have not contacted the folks at Khan Academy, nor am I in any way affiliated with them. ** The name of the website is not important, but the concept is.

In this dismal market economy, I feel that school loans should be forgiven, at least until the economy improves, as it will be even more difficult to get a job if the outstanding loans go on our credit reports.

The Governor is proposing to cut $517 million in funding for child care at the California Department of Education, significantly reducing services to student families who will not qualify for subsidized child care.

To stop student loan rates from increasing in July

It would be great to find a way to pay those high student loan's debt. although as the economy inproves very slowly, it would be a great work for the goberment to do something about it. I graduated fro a 2 year college with didnt realy explain the repayment methods of my loans and been a foreing transfer student, didnt know what i was getting in to. Please greate some regulations for private institutions where they can "trick" prospect student with degrees that bearly can get you a job, and insted consume you into debt.

53.6 percent of all new college graduates are either underemployed or completely unemployed. Recognizing that new companies, commonly referred to as startups, are responsible for all net job creation in the United States, entrepreneurship education must become a key part of higher education strategies. Next week, Professor Ken McLeod will talk to President Stenger about establishing an Independent Entrepreneurship Institute at Binghamton University, so that students of all years and majors have the opportunity to learn about innovation and entrepreneurship as a path to success. We are calling on President Stenger to seize this opportunity and create the next generation of innovators that will restore the Southern Tier to greatness and thrust Binghamton University into national prominence.

Kansas public schools are operating on budgets equal to the money that was available to them in the 1990's. After reckless anti-tax legislation was passed in the Kansas House on Wednesday, May 9th, Education funding will likely be on the chopping block again. We are calling upon our state legislators and Governor Brownback to reject these irresponsible tax cuts that will create deficits which will lead to further reductions in education funding. Education funding needs to be RESTORED, NOT CUT!

University of Colorado at Boulder Recreation Center has been so restrictive with regard to its diving boards, that it's preventing potential Olympic athletes from progressing. Indeed, the CU Boulder rec center has nearly transformed the dive well into the water polo well, because they are so afraid to allow access to the 3m diving boards. In the 1980s and 90s US Olympic divers were among the best. But facilities like CU need to set an example & encourage young athletes, not prevent them.

Huppenthal has eliminated a successful Mexican American Studies in Tucson Unified School District, and is now calling for a ban on Mexican American Studies in AZ's public universities. The state should not be telling students what they cannot read and professors what they cannot teach. We provide asylum to students and professors in whose countries books, curriculum, and ideas are banned. Huppenthal's actions violate the most basic spirit of our country’s founding principles.

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