A bill to restore fairness in the student loan industry by allowing private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy was introduced in both the Senate and the House this week.
This is great news, and it means our elected leaders are listening to us.
The bill still has to go through the process to become law. It must pass in either the Senate or the House by a vote, then be signed by the President to become law.
Check out Senator Durbin's page for more details.
Please call or write your Senators and Representatives and tell them to support this bill!
Scroll to the bottom of this page to see the real-time progress of the bills.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
US Compulsory Education vs. Health Care Reform 2010
Compare Education and Health Care Reform:
"The first compulsory education law in the American colonies was established in Massachusetts in 1647. The Massachusetts General Court passed a law requiring every town to create and operate a grammar school. Fines were imposed on parents who did not send their children to school and the government took the power to take children away from their parents and apprentice them to others if government officials decided that the parents were 'unfit to have the children educated properly'."
Compulsory education was not part of early American society, which relied instead on private schools that mostly charged tuition. The spread of compulsory education in the Massachusetts tradition throughout America ... has been credited to General Richard Henry Pratt."
Schooling is compulsory for all children in the United States, but the age range for which school attendance is required varies from state to state." [From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education#United_States.]
Compare this to the recent health care reform legislation. How, conceptually, is it any different? How, constitutionally, is the concept any different?
"The first compulsory education law in the American colonies was established in Massachusetts in 1647. The Massachusetts General Court passed a law requiring every town to create and operate a grammar school. Fines were imposed on parents who did not send their children to school and the government took the power to take children away from their parents and apprentice them to others if government officials decided that the parents were 'unfit to have the children educated properly'."
Compulsory education was not part of early American society, which relied instead on private schools that mostly charged tuition. The spread of compulsory education in the Massachusetts tradition throughout America ... has been credited to General Richard Henry Pratt."
Schooling is compulsory for all children in the United States, but the age range for which school attendance is required varies from state to state." [From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education#United_States.]
Compare this to the recent health care reform legislation. How, conceptually, is it any different? How, constitutionally, is the concept any different?
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