Our hard-working teachers and staff have gone 5 years without cost-of-living pay increases while our county suffered economic hardship. Now that we have windfall taxes, Santa Cruz City Schools Board of Education and Superintendant Bloom need to honor the agreement made last spring with Santa Cruz teachers, to fairly share the tax windfall with them, and provide them with an adequate cost-of-living pay increase, their first in 5 years. In protest, teachers have implemented a "work-to-rule" action - - in short, they are working only the hours they are paid to work, with no additional time spent on tutoring, chaperoning, or supervising extracurricular activities. This action hurts students countywide. Club meetings are not taking place, as no teachers are available to supervise, seniors want for college recommendations, and the list goes on and on. We stand by our community, our kids, and our teachers. And we ask Santa Cruz City Schools Board of Education & Superintendant Gary Bloom to stand by them too. Do what is right for the Santa Cruz City Schools, the community, and the teachers. Settle a fair contract with the teachers now, providing them with the much-needed and well-deserved cost-of-living pay raise that truly reflects our tax windfall.

This petition comes on behalf of the PTSO for Haynes Medical Science Design Center. In being an advocate for our children as well as our community, our concerns are in regards to the possible closing of Haynes Middle Health Medical Science Design Center. We as parents and persons whom have a community interest are willing and ready to give the support needed to assist in a resolution to continue to build a brighter future for us all.

Because every sophomore has came up to me nd told me that they dont understand him he treats them bad hes not helpful and that almost half the sophomore class is failing his class and that they want to leave glencliff over it

***Early intervention is key to success for our children, ABA provides infinite hope when done in early ages*** When my daughter was diagnosed with Autism, at age 2.5, no one said that ABA was the ONLY effective method to treat my daughter's severed language/speech delay, and other symptoms of autism such social delay and stereotyped behaviors. We were pushed to sent her to a public school (ESE class) starting her 3rd birthday. She was there for 2 years, made no progress but regression into severe autism and challenging behaviors. After that I found that ABA was the only hope, and she recovered her language in about 6 mounts from intensive ABA therapy. Later I learned that most states provide free appropriate public education using ABA to help children, like my child, to make progress to have a functional live later on. This aims to inclusion, which will help the school system to save so much money down the road. We are petitioning our legislators and governors to help us to have ALL of our children receive the fair free public education including ABA teaching for ESE students, not to be an option, but to be mandate for all schools in Lee County, FL, so all children could benefit of what is science based most effective technique for developmental delays. Autism Spectrum Disorders is rapidly becoming the most often diagnosed childhood disorder. Applied Behavior Analysis, a branch of psychology rooted in the application of science to the study of human behavior, is a special therapy that has been shown to be quite effective in reducing the impact of autism spectrum disorders.

The reason i want you to sign this petition is because teens are not being allowed to go to Devers Middle Schools and Teen Center. This stops them from experienceing the great activities at the teen center. This is why i would like to you to sign this petition

Next year Westchester Elementary will open and Decatur's K-3 students will be rezoned. Lenox Place's children risk being removed from the very walkable Oakhurst Elementary and sent to Westchester, which is too far away for our young kids to walk to.

This new dress code is not only more expensive for the parents but we believe it will not do anything for their grades or bullying. Our children are now being policed for their clothes instead of weapons, drugs, etc..Children who never have been in trouble are now being sent to the office to be reprimanded. Let our children worry about getting good grades not getting in trouble for their clothes.

He is a power hungry man who is abusing his vice principle "power" and making students life miserable. He hasnt helped any students like he should be. Thats why he needs to be removed.

I am appalled at the attacks on teachers and public schools and the concomitant rise in charters which are allowed to cherry pick their students and are backed by business.

Congress has not done nearly enough to target student debt. NYU, the nation's most expensive college, and a leader in student debt, is a poster child for financial mismanagement. Republican Senator Grassley has been trying to investigate, but Democrats on the committee are dragging their feet.

On the heels of a dismal 50 of 50 state ranking in the latest "Kids Count" report, RISE an innovative school idea is not approved by the Public Ed., Department. The “Kids Count” report ranks children on 16 different indicators of well-being; from education to health, to poverty and family life. However, RISE a proposed school to deliberately teach students skills on how to succeed like confidence, persistence, and resiliency (CPR) along with the essential cognitive abilities, the powers that be do not recommend such a school to be approved. Please sign the petition to show the support and need for a deliberate dual purpose education model and that our outdated education model just isn’t working for a great majority of our students Thank you, Eppie Lopez www.risenm.org

MSU has decided to short many of our members on several hundred dollars worth of pay. Several hundred dollars is a large amount to most people, but when almost all of us make well under $20,000 each year a cut of this amount from our paychecks is critical to our wellbeing. Most graduate students who were teaching assistants over the summer are affected by this pay cut. During our most recent contract negotiations with MSU, the university wanted to change the summer teaching appointment period. We worked with MSU to make sure the dates of the summer appointment period accurately reflected when summer work occurred. Because of this, there was a three-day overlap between the spring appointment period and the summer appointment period. For those three days, if a teaching assistant had both a spring appointment and a summer appointment, MSU maintains that it is only obliged to pay those TAs for one of the jobs. Stipend rates vary from department to department, but losing these for days of summer pay amounts to around $200. With 330 TAs in this situation, that is approximately $66,000 that MSU is withholding from grad student paychecks. Similarly, there is a four-day overlap between the summer and fall appointment periods that MSU does not want to pay TAs for either. GEU has been working with MSU since last year on this issue. Recently, we met with the university, thought this issue was settled, and that summer TAs would be paid properly. Two weeks later, with no explanation whatsoever, the university declined to do so. This lack of recognition for the work that we do is unacceptable.