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103 Students Set to Graduate from National Labor College

Rachelle Honeycutt works at an oil refinery in Washington State. Sam Schaffer is a skilled sheet metal worker from West Virginia. Javier Almazan organizes workers in south Florida and Cathy Merkel is an registrar in Maryland. They're all union members. more »

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103 Students Set to Graduate from National Labor College

Rachelle Honeycutt works at an oil refinery in Washington State. Sam Schaffer is a skilled sheet metal worker from West Virginia. Javier Almazan organizes workers in south Florida and Cathy Merkel is an registrar in Maryland. They're all union members. more »

Loujean Stauffer's picture

Texas Public Education is a Joke!

In 1999, when my youngest child was in the 7th grade here in our small rural township school, I was mortified to discover he had no idea how to multiply or any form of higher math. more »

Margaret Deavers-Dupree's picture

Our children deserve more...

Our children in Florida deserve a better and more individualized education than what they are getting because each child is different. more »

Maribel Cachu's picture

First Generation

I am the first student on both sides of my parents family to attend a four year university. The fact that financial aid might be getting cut even more means this accomplishment I have worked so hard for may not be there for me to finish. more »

C.J. Meakes's picture

A College Education Should Be Available to Everyone

When tuition is a quarter to a half of what your family lives off of, and the financial aid offices unhelpful, and all the news is that tuition is raising, grants are being cut, and rent is $1000 near the college, then going to college seems, and for many IS, impossible. more »

Sandra Goggin's picture

Every Child Left Behind

How can we as a nation stand by and allow these things to happen? It will only get worse as more school systems are forced to buy into No Child Left Behind. more »

Tony Cochran's picture

Bush's Budget Cuts

President Bush seems to be reversing all the major welfare progressions of the 1960s and 1970s. His massive cuts in social programs are affecting millions of working class Americans -- my family included. more »