Student loans are continuing to drown our economy. It is said that the next recession will be due to the student loan debt. Current student loan debt is higher than credit card debt. If student loans are allowed to be included in bankruptcies, money now being spent on monthly payments would be freed up to help grow our economy, which would then get our country out of the current recession.

This petition is against switching to the 7-period schedule and keeping the block schedule for Sam Barlow and Gresham High School. Please do not put a fake name or joke around or put any rude comments, otherwise your signature will become void.

The petition is about keeping block schedules because it would greatly affect our learning if it was a seven period day NO BAD COMMENTS

Today I learned that a valuable faculty member is being laid off due to a declining student population, which is increasing the faculty:student ratio. This loss will greatly affect the quality of work produced by all students in the Graphic and Web Design programs at The Art Institute of Seattle. Help send a message to the school administration that we can't lose Aaron Shurts as a faculty member at our school.

Bristol will be sending their K-5th Grade students to school with middle school age children next school year. Our young children will be subject to young teenage pranks and offensive language. We don't want our young innocent children to be subject to potential harm and offensive language. We are calling on the Bristol Board of Education to reconsider protect our children instead of worrying about cost.

The Homer-Center School District is threatening to fire the district's school cafeteria workers and to subcontract their work to a private for-profit corporation. This will mean local tax dollars will leave our district and local residents will lose their jobs. Even if they are hired by the company, their salaries and benefits will be slashed. Please contact the Homer-Center School Board and Administration and tell them that our public schools are not for sale to the higest bidder!

A college education is a service, not a right. No one should pay for it except those who chose to borrow the money in the first place.

Since 1980, average tuition for a 4-year college education has increased an astounding 800%. Since 1999, average student loan debt has shamefully increased by over 500%! In 2010, total outstanding student loan debt exceeded total outstanding credit card debt in America for the first time ever. In 2012, total outstanding student loan debt exceeded $1 Trillion. Today, we have over 1.3 TRILLION dollars in overall student loan debt and the number is climbing out-of-control. In short, student loan debt has become the fastest growing financial crisis in America. If we do absolutely nothing, the entire economy will eventually come crashing down again- just as it did when the housing bubble popped. This ever-growing crisis has put our country on an unsustainable course towards financial oblivion. As a result of more than 30 years of treating higher education as an individual commodity, rather than a public good and an investment in our collective future, those buried under the weight of their student loan debt are not buying homes or cars, not starting businesses or families, and they're not investing, inventing, innovating or otherwise engaged in any of the economically stimulative activities that we need all Americans to be engaged in. Student loan debt has an undeniable and significant effect on economic growth. Forgiving student loan debt directly addresses this enormous boot on the neck of the middle class. represents a glimmer of hope for millions of Americans who, with each passing day, find that the American Dream is more and more out of reach. Therefore, we, the undersigned, respectfully request that Congress bring forward serious legislation to forgive student loan debt and commit to solving the student debt crisis this year.

There's no magic bullet that will help poor children realize their full intellectual potential. Too often suggested solutions come from those whose knowledge of what should go on in an inner city classroom is grossly inadequate. Sign this petition if you believe that many of Bridgeport's finest teachers should be involved in any and all planning for the best ways of improving and enriching Bridgeport's school children's learning skills.

Reinstate funding to our schools! Reform costly mandates that keep us rooted to an antiquated educational system! Reinvent the tax system into an equitable formula that does not place funding schools on the backs of property owners.

If you reside in the Neshaminy School District and support the Neshaminy School Board's position in contract negotiations with the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers, please sign this petition no later than 8 am Monday, March 12.

The United States need a public early education system (infant to pre-K) because many of our parents work and they need not only an affordable daycare, but a high quality early childhood education. According to the American Federation of Teachers, the positive impact of high-quality early childhood programs on children’s success in school and their future has been well documented. Many studies have demonstrated the importance of the early years for the developing brain. And over the past four decades,numerous studies such as the Perry Preschool Study; the Abecedarian Project; the Chicago Longitudinal Study; and the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study have indicated that high-quality early childhood education increases the likelihood that children—particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds—will become successful students and citizens. Providing a public early childhood education to our families is not just good for the families, but is also good for the community and the country, Even though providing a universal early childhood education is expensive, "studies consistently show a savings of $7 for every dollar spent on such programs" for middle income families and up to $27 for every dollar spent on low income children. AFT claims that "these savings come as a result of lower costs for remedial and special education, fewer school dropouts, and less delinquency and subsequent unemployment.or criminal activity" (AFT Educational Issues Policy Brief-Number 15 July 2002). Our society needs to recognize that early childhood education should be viewed as an important part of the education continuum. Legislators need to understand that providing a high quality early childhood experiences to all our children will ensure their success at school and in life. Parents with young children across the country must join together and convince our political leaders that the time is now for the country to provide high quality early childhood education for all.