As a mother of 4 school aged children and a current charter school operator, I know the importance of a child's educational experience. We need to offer our children a purposeful, focused education from Kindergarten through 8th grade to help them move forward into competitive high schools, colleges and careers. A STEAM based school that fully integrates all components throughout the instructional day is the key to giving our children the best chance we can to become highly motivated, academically superior, civic minded citizens.

The Commonwealth of MA average expenditure per pupil for education was $14,525 in FY 2014. Wachusett Regional School District average expenditure per pupil was only $11,131. This difference is due to an unfair state funding formula which negatively impacts the quality of education available for residents in this district and overburdens our towns municipalities. Please help bring WRSD funding to the state average and fix this problem.

Webutuck Central School District Policy #8410 states, "As part of the effort to ensure effective and safe service, the Board authorizes the district to provide separate bus runs to elementary and secondary students. The Board believes this practice is beneficial to all of our students." (Adoption date: April 22, 2014)

Our public schools are already suffering from shortage of funds to provide the best education for our children. I don't feel it's very democratic for a few law makers to impose a decision on our tax dollars. The public has a right to have an option on how our hard-earned money is used.

Drowning is 100% preventable. It's time that we, as Americans, prevent drowning 100%! I, Dave Benjamin, survived a drowning accident in Lake Michigan December 26, 2010 and then I dedicated my life to water safety and drowning survival (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeqxKGQ_BJg) . I co-founded the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project (GLSRP) with Bob Pratt where we: --Track the Great Lakes drowning statistics (404 since 2010) --Organize and Present “Great Lakes Water Safety” classes (Over 145 classes since 2011) --Organize Surf Lifeguard Certification courses --Work with family and friends of Great Lakes drowning victims to advocate water safety. Great Lakes drownings are just the tip of the iceberg of the nationwide drowning epidemic, and it is time for drowning to cease being a "Neglected Public Health Issue"! The GLSPR has the curriculum. Let's Launch it in the Great Lakes Region and then implement it nationwide.

If we want to continue to have a creative class in this country, we need to support artists. (PUBLIC DOMAIN is owned by the public, is it not?) Why not require profitable businesses to pay for the privilege of making money from artists' hard work? The latest research demonstrates that education in the arts helps students' brains mature and develop, yet the arts are the first thing that get cut from schools when money is tight. If we want to remain competitive in the global economy, it behooves us to make sure that all students in the public schools have access to high quality arts education.

It helps young children learn how to read, develop math and phonics skills, and get ready for school.

All ATRs have been affected.

The National Civil War Museum is a premier, nonprofit educational institution affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Its closure will result in a severe loss to cultural preservation/public history, as well as the degradation the City of Harrisburg and its economy.

I've been an educator since 1980, took exams in my field of study by college staff/ professors and passed because they prepared me. NOW these exams of research based information designed by professionals outside of earning a teaching degree SHOULD NOT be the final indicator of teaching abilities. RATHER...IF THESE TYPES OF EXAMS ARE SO IMPORTANT, DPI SHOULD WORK COOPERATIVELY WITH ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS TO MAKE THEM AN INTEGRAL PART OF THEIR CURRICULUM and controlled by these institutions to create/tests and decide who's qualified to teach.

We want to stop Robert Bishop from leaving the staff at Redford Union Schools! Please sign and share.

I am tired of Koch Industries influencing academic research and preventing honest learning in Kansas universities as well as universities and colleges across the United States. This includes donations to KU, KSU, FHSU, WSU and Bethel College. In addition to this they are major pollutors and the think tanks they support and have founded are used to undermine democracy in states across the U.S.