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Kishwaukee College, Bargain in Good Faith with FacultyKishwaukee's faculty is dedicated to the students it serves and expects the School's administration to demonstrate its dedication by ending the games and bargaining in good faith. The administration has pushed half-truths and misinformation to the public regarding the talks and threatened faculty with arrests for attempting to pass along information to students. We demand the Board and Administration roll up their sleeves and hammer out a deal that is fair to faculty and the students they serve. More information -----> http://ow.ly/H0Cop798 of 800 SignaturesCreated by Illinois Federation of Teachers
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help students in west AfricaOur petition is to help students in West Africa due to the Ebola outbreak. Schools in West African countries have shut down due to the Ebola outbreak. As a result, female students are getting married because they not going to school. Also teachers have lost their jobs so it is difficult for them to support their family. This is why we want you to help them by sending education leaders to countries that have shut down their schools due to the Ebola outbreak .31 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Houssainatou
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Stop the prison moveThe people were never asked if they wanted this prison move. We have, however, been asking for a better school system. Statistically, need for future prison beds can be calculated from the number of 4th graders who are not fully competent at the 3rd grade level. That is why people are always fussing about Kindergarten through 3rd grade as the first step to fixing our educational system. We could actually get that right instead of messing with a big prison project. Starving education while building prisons is called "building a pipeline to prison." Draper built around the prison, and has an established network of experienced employees, volunteers, and vendors. Other communities are unprepared to adapt quickly, and are saying NIMBY. Obviously the price of an alternative site is going up rapidly with towns rejecting the idea rather than competing for it. The prison study has a couple things right we should act on. They recommend reforming sentencing. Many have questioned the harshness and length of non-violent drug sentences, while other states decriminalize marijuana and tax and regulate it like alcohol. We need to stop the ballooning prison population. The prison we have is more than we need if we straightened out our treatment of at risk school kids and pot smokers. We have room to build a taller building or two as needed--which is not now. And on the other hand--once our land hungry legislature takes the federal lands, there ought to be a free place for a prison. What's the hurry?117 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Lee Anne Walker
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Support the Charter Renewal for FFA!Your support is needed! Over the past few weeks, FFA has been the subject of much rumor and controversy. Our charter is up for renewal by the Delaware Department of Education and the Delaware State Board of Education next Thursday, January 15. Positive comments from the public are critical to encourage DOE and the State Board to renew our charter. Per the email sent out last week, the FFA Board has appointed Mrs. Kathleen Connor and Mrs. Amy Novosel interim Chief Administrators. These two professionals are the epitome of good moral character as well as being extraordinarily talented educators. FFA is strong academically as evidenced by the Academic Performance Framework, is alive with extra-curricular opportunities for the students, and our students have participated in service projects that have benefited our community. We encourage you to sign this petition supporting the renewal of our charter. Thank you.316 of 400 SignaturesCreated by Family Foundations Academy
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Carmen Farina - All students should know about EbolaWe don't want any other African American kid in New York City to be bullied due to misinformation about Ebola, as it happened with the two Senegalese brothers. It is important that all the students learn about Ebola virus, because people have the misconception that all people who came from Africa to United States have the Ebola virus.71 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Roderich
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Save Our Shedd Elementary School Green Space1. The market value of properties located proximate to a park or open space (POS) are frequently higher than comparable properties located elsewhere. If Shedd property's green space is taken away it would lower the property value of every home in this community. 2. The sale of this property to a developer would also remove a ball field and play-lot used by the children in this community as well as recreation space for adults.141 of 200 SignaturesCreated by clevan tucker
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Town Supervisor Mr. Croce: ReHire Coach Will!!!My three children all adore Coach Will! Being a single mother of three with limited income, Coach Will has provided so much for them and all positive. They love him!. It will be a shame to let someone like him walk out of our children's lives. He's a positive role model that I want my kids to learn from!122 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Alicia Pauselius
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Money reimbursement of uniformsWe as parents are frustrated about this short notice of the school closing. We as a whole should be reimbursed for school uniforms and etc. We as the parents need to be heard. Our children are devastated and upset from the news of this school closing. This is a major set back for some and many will find it hard to cope with this traumatic change.69 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Sheryl Welton
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Allow student loans to be re-financed as mortgages are.Because my daughter-in-law is still paying off her student loan, she cannot afford to buy a home & is otherwise unable to make purchases which could help to revive the economy. House and Senate members who want to DO something to stimulate the economy, not just play blame games & talk, talk, talk, should ACT now. Relieve students and their families of burdensome debt, & revive growth.11 of 100 SignaturesCreated by JoAnn Fritsche
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(State of Michigan) Hands off Detroit Public SchoolsThe Governor's interference in education has cost our children in Detroit, unequal funding and quality education.771 of 800 SignaturesCreated by Herman L Davis
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UMKC let Disabled Veteran return to classesI am a Service Connected Disabled Veteran. I was expelled under a pretext. UMKC wanted to make me go away. The Department of Education wanted me to stop filing charges that they were allowing the directors of Civil Rights departments to work for the very Universities that they were suppose to regulate. I did nothing wrong but advocate for disabled students, ask for a disabled student council, and ask where was all the Federal funding for Disabled Students. I need your signature to tell Universities around the country that Disabled Students in Higher Education have rights. We have a right to accommodations. We have civil rights that are supposed to be enforced by the Department of Education.32 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Vincent Cannady
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Help Prevent More School Overcrowding!Many citizens of Rockville are very concerned about the rush, on the part of some Council members, to weaken the City's Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance/Standards (APFO/APFS). This is an issue about which many in the community feel passionately, because our APFO is essential for the protection of the education of our children. In Rockville, the APFO stops developers from building more apartments and adding more children to schools already well over capacity. Weakening it will have adverse consequences for the quality of life in our neighborhoods, including forcing the Montgomery County school system to teach children in portables, not classrooms. Montgomery County is already behind by 22 schools - how many more schools will be needed if the APFO is trampled by development interests? In the recent past there have been numerous attempts by development interests to water down or eliminate our APFO/APFS, but everyone who has studied the issue, including the APFO task force, the Planning Commission, and previous Mayor and Councils, have kept our strong City standards in place. But now our APFO is in jeopardy, due to the unfortunate efforts of several City Council members. This most recent proposal would weaken the current APFS standards by changing them to Montgomery County's standards, the most lax in the State of Maryland. Three inadvisable changes are being proposed: first, weakening the school test to allow 120% overcrowding in our schools; second, permitting "averaging" of overcrowding across an entire school cluster to water down the statistics from highly overcrowded individual schools; and finally, changing the "test period" from 2 to 5 years, which essentially allows developers to get credit for new school capacity which may never be funded or built. We believe that the proposed changes will severely diminish the quality of education our students will receive. Overcrowded schools are already a huge problem, and now is not the time to make the problem worse. Rockville's current strong APFO is a vital planning tool at the City's disposal to make sure that new residential development does not overwhelm our schools and roads. Please join us in standing up and making our collective voice heard. Tell the Mayor and Council to keep our City's APFO strong!29 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Peter Witzler