Our kids are subjected to long state tests and hours of test preparation. Children are missing recess and arts programs are being cut to accommodate more test prep. The students diligently take these high stress, high stakes tests, and they never get an opportunity to review their specific performance. They merely receive a score six months later. What are these tests for if not to improve our children's educations?

Brookline extended day programs have provided over 40 years of highly successful and enriching programs. They are managed by Parent-run Boards; and as non-profit organizations, deliver high-quality programs at no cost to the schools or to the town, serving exclusively the children of the Brookline public school system and their working parents. Keep our extended day programs intact!

Without Burke our program would fall further and further due to his love for helping students succeed, get internships, and to get permeant jobs after graduation.

In January 2014, Kern High School District (KHSD) Superintendent Donald E. Carter announced he is retiring, as of August 2014. The Kern High School District Board of Trustees announced they only plan to conduct an internal search, despite public pressure from community stakeholders urging an open search. While we acknowledge that there may be competent candidates currently serving KHSD, we believe our community will benefit from the widest possible search for the most forward thinking and highly skilled candidate. We need a superintendent with substantial experience and the qualities necessary to tackle the issues and challenges facing the district at this juncture.

We love our school and are tired of it being destroyed by an incompetent school board.

I am an alum from Jones High School (one of the schools on the chopping block). With parents and stakeholders standing up for schools across the city, HISD must use creativity and innovation to meet its challenges. I will not stand idly by as Mr. Grier closes schools in low-income neighborhoods. Public education should be just that: public, and accessible. Where will our children go to school when these schools close? Across town? And who will have to pay for that? Our community. Superintendent Terry Grier, don't close down Houston schools. We need to invest in our children, not bail out on them. Take our schools off the chopping block and keep them open!

This is my second child that has been hit by a teacher in Central Islip School, the teachers are not made accountable for their verbal abuse or physical abuse and it has to stop. Our Children's Education and Safety should be our top priority. We need to hire and Elect officials that want to do their jobs. Give our children a quality education and safe environment.

Don has removed our Principal Tamara Skordahl without reason and despite all the protests of Parents, the Community and the Staff of Oakridge Elementary. He has very little regard for what the parent's think or want concerning their children. We are in need of someone who listen's to the parents. After all it is our children who are to be directly effected by the decision this man has made and will continue to make if left in his current position.

To let kids focus on well rounded learning not just NJASK scores.

Chancellor Martin is trying to destroy CSU-Pueblo and divert it's resources north to build a new university in Denver, CSU-Denver.

We work as substitute teachers for the Franklin school district. Our salary of $110 per diem during the school year has been reduced to 85 dollars. This decision was finalized in the budget without the input of substitutes, the public, teachers ,parents and most administration. Our children's education should be our top priority; these cuts will result in a loss of valuable, educated personnel and the ability of school offices to fill teacher absences. We are a loyal hard working group who live in your town, have 60 credits or more, years of business experience, often parents with past and present PTO memberships. Some of us are even certified teachers who are out of work. We live in this community, teach your children, and deserve a sustainable wage that ensures parents that we will be there day in and day out, familiar and safe faces. The Board of Education believes "the quality of the professional staff in large part determines the quality of education offered district students." Often we are called upon to fill long-term assignments where we are covering one teacher from anywhere from 2 days to 21 days. In that time we are responsible for lesson plans, quizzes, tests, homework and grading. If we are paid so poorly, our children may not get the education promised. We are here year after year and know the curriculum and the students. We learn up to date teaching skills by modeling the professional staff. Retention of skilled substitute staff saves money and increases student education. We hear the cries of “ there is no money " yet there is still plenty of money to give to the top salaries,professional development, stipends, new schools etc.. America has fallen into a dangerous habit of chipping away at the bottom to give to the top. We teach our students the reason we learn history is so we do not repeat the mistakes of our past yet our own Board of Education approved a decrease in income to the lowest paid personnel submitted by the school management who are the highest paid personnel!! Our six figure paid management has decided to chip away at a segment of their own population who cannot afford the sacrifice. Sounds familiar? The Rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Eliminate the rise to middle class. This is a practice of employers of the past before unions organized the work force. Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under Clinton, has said all low wage earners have a right to unionize without fear of losing their jobs. So if the intent of the Board of Education and school management of Franklin is to repeat the past by refusing to rescind our reduction in wage therefore maintaining it at an unlivable level, or perhaps blacklisting all substitutes who have signed this petition, we are ready with our attorneys and will be left with no option but to organize just as teachers did so many decades ago. The "culture of respect" should be for all of us. Please offer your support by signing this petition.

We are sixth graders writing from our personal experiences last year. We are aghast that an issue we thought was resolved in the nineteen hundreds is still a problem today, into the twenty first century. The pacer test is a standardized test to confirm the physical ability of children in terms of running endurance. It is not fair that boys should have to live up to the expectations of being vastly more physically fit than girls, and girls should not have to be put down by the idea that they are not able to be equal to boys.