Sign this petition to stop college tuition hikes

From the Democratic Party of Georgia:

TO: Georgia politicians that advocate college tuition hikes,

We, concerned citizens and students within Georgia, strongly condemn the attempt to balance the Georgia budget on the backs of college students, faculty and staff.

The attempt to violently cut $385 million from the higher education budget for the 2010 calendar year will result in dramatically higher tuition rates, could bankrupt the HOPE scholarship, and will result in drastically reduced college services.

State Senator Harp’s encouragement of a 77% tuition hike is unjust. All college students begin school with the expectation that tuition will remain relatively stable over a four year time. A one-year increase of 77% is clearly beyond any sense of fairness.

Over 4,000 jobs will be lost, and core services of our educational system will vanish.

We sign this petition with the understanding that it will be delivered to the appropriate decision-makers in our State Capitol, and that our voices (and votes) will be a crucial commodity in this November’s elections.

Don’t raise the fees on our degrees!

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