This bill is seen by education experts as a devious and underhanded attack on your local public schools and hardworking teachers. Every credible parent group in Florida, including the PTA, is opposed to this bill because it will ultimately hurt students. In fact, this bill will only help private education companies and corporations who want to force taxpayers to pay them to run “for-profit” unaccountable charter schools. These schools are not held to the same standards as public schools. Even worse, the corporate lobbyists who are promoting this legislation were caught misleading the public and Legislators by saying parents support this bill. That is a lie. Again, every parent group in Florida opposes this “parent trigger” bill.

In the middle of the night on Friday, March 2, the Republicans passed their version of a state budget: a Wisconsin-style attack on public school employees, students and collective bargaining – and educators’ health care benefits. This budget is similar to what Gov. Scott Walker did to educators and public workers in Wisconsin. If anti-union legislators in Washington get their way now, just think what could happen after the general election in November! We, the educators and public education supporters of the State of Washington, urge Senate Democrats and fair-minded Republicans to oppose these attacks on public education, collective bargaining and school employees’ health care benefits.

Not only good public education for our youth, but keep (& grow) the educational/training opportunities for our adults who want and need to retrain for today's workforce!!!!

In order to protect our property values, improve our public safety, and help our children, Hermosa Beach needs to protect its schools.

In the 1990's the Department of Education allowed married couples to consolidate their student loans. They stopped the program when couples would get divorced and the Department of Education would not sever the loans back to the responsible parties. The Department has a "Loan Summary" sheet that clearly shows which loans are owned by whicch ex-spouse and the capitallized interest on each loan. If you refuse to pay your loans they will go after each spouse separately. They will not honor a judgement or any kind of judicial order to sever your liability from your ex-spouses liability. This affects thousands of families. Responsible people across the country are paying debts of the irresponsible with no remedy. The Department of Education could easily fix this and make those who borrowed the money pay it back.

The USDA continues to purchase "pink slime", or ammonia treated beef scraps, for the nation's school lunch program. Lunch foods for children should be nutritious, whole foods, and not "food-like" substances. Mandating a healthier federal school lunch program and using ammonia laced connective tissue as a food additive is hypocritical, wrong and potentially harmful.

The increase in tuition for state and public UCs has increased to a point where you are denying the middle class from getting a college education. Look for other areas to make budget cuts, but no more to education. California cannot thrive in the future if there is no middle class.

All New Jersey children deserve a quality education provided for by the State of New Jersey. Allowing a voucher program will limit the number of New Jersey students that will be given an opportunity to 'live the life they imagine'.

The number one problem people face is not having a job. All effort must be placed in job creation. People are losing their homes and this is hurting children and families. Also, people who are trying to help others are being attacked by some in the press, some politicians and some corporate leaders. Please show your support for teachers as they try their best to educate our future- the children. Thank you for your support of workers and teachers.

Two year colleges should be protected by constitutional mandate, just as K-12. Currently there is no mandate to fund them at an existence level. They must grovel for every dime, even though they have a faster and more efficient turn around to prepare their students for gainful employment and become tax payers. The cut backs over the last three years set their ability to provide adequate classes back 20 years. Student tuition has increased well over 20% during this time!

Today you can get a loan to buy a used car for less than 3%, but current and recent Alaska Student Loan Corporation loan rates range from roughly 6.25% to 9%. Please support House Bill 272 to reduce the principal of your Alaska student loan annually by 2.5%, and help Alaskans stay in Alaska and return to Alaska. A 2.5% annual principal reduction is the equivalent of a 3% reduction in the student loan interest rate. Used cars are great, but education loans should include repayment terms that attract Alaskans back to the state, and encourage them to stay. To learn more go to http://akdemocrats.org/rep_gara/.

The purpose of this petition is to ask Education Corporation of America to be more responsible with the information that they provide their students at the time that they obtain their student loans. They need to eliminate deceptive lending practices and adopt a policy that ensures that each student fully understands all student loan requirements, policies, and procedures as well as credit transferability