Studies show how important it is for children of all ages to learn about comprehensive sexual education (CSE). This form of education includes information about the reproductive system, different methods of birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases. Many people believe that teaching abstinence-only sexual education is the best method, but it's just not effective in lowering teen pregnancy rates. Teenage parents are more likely to end up in poverty, to have their children go to prison, or to have their children become teen parents as well. CSE implementation can help lower teen pregnancy rates, so please support the cause! For more information please visit stayteen.org, thenationalcampaign.org, or candiesfoundation.org. Thank you for your support!

The Recovery School District, an agency of the Louisiana Department of Education, currently controls seven schools in Baton Rouge called the Baton Rouge Achievement Zone. The RSD is using one of these schools, Prescott Middle School with a seating capacity for 1,000 students, as an administrative building. The children of the East Baton Rouge School System need this facility back as a school to ease overcrowding among middle schools. As background, the RSD took over these schools because the schools were deemed “failing” by the Louisiana Department of Education. Parents were then given the choice of sending their children to schools run by the RSD or choosing another school run by the East Baton Rouge Parish School System. The student capacity of the seven RSD schools is 6,285. According to an RSD count conducted several months ago, there are 2,633 students attending these schools, indicating that the vast majority of parents in the seven schools chose another school run by the EBRPSS. It is incredibly inefficient for all of these school buildings to remain in the hands of the RSD when the majority of their former students have exercised choice and chosen to remain with the EBRPSS. In light of the state’s budget situation and the frozen funding for public education, the tax payers of Louisiana and East Baton Rouge Parish need to know our education officials are doing every thing they can to use resources efficiently. Even the drafters of the RSD recognize the need to keep as much money as possible in the classroom as demonstrated in the following section of the Louisiana law that created the RSD: “Except for administrative costs, monies appropriated to the Recovery School District that are attributable to the transfer of a school from a prior school system and monies allocated or transferred from the prior system to the recovery district shall be expended solely on the operation of schools transferred from the prior system to the jurisdiction of the district.” La R.S. 17:1990(3)(a). The consequences of this inefficient use of space by the RSD are particularly acute among middle school students since two of the RSD schools are middle schools. Of the 15 middle schools in EBRPSS, two have exceeded their capacity, one is at full capacity and four are within fifty students of being at capacity. This problem will only get worse as there is currently 486 more fifth graders going into middle school for the 2012-14 school year in the EBRPSS than there are eighth graders leaving. We urge the RSD to give this school building back to the EBRPSS. There are at least 2,652 empty desks at their other schools that could be turned into administrative space. The Superintendent of the RSD, Patrick Dobard, says he is committed to ensuring that “every student in Louisiana has access to a high-quality public school.” Mr. Dobard can demonstrate this commitment to parents across the EBRPSS by giving us back Prescott Middle School.

Amendments to Bill H 3435, known as the Healthy Youth Amendment, covers changes to create a more comprehensive health education approach for children at all age levels within the SC public school system. In order to do this teachers and administrators need to be trained on medically accurate information, and have access to evidence-based curricula which would be taught in a consistent manner among all schools in the area. If Bill 3435 is passed, schools will also be held accountable to comply with the law.

I attend Brainerd High school, and we have senior projects. Most school just have a paper and present it but we have to do a portfolio, a paper, and then present, but we have no help and little time and the worst part is if we fail this then we completely fail.

School Crossing Guards are a vital and integral part of our educational system and of the daily lives of children protecting them as they go to school and home, also our elderly citizens as they go about their daily lives and anyone else in need of assistance.

I am so much affected by this issue because right now, i am enrolled in an adult school and is still planning to take up other courses in the near future.

School-Within-School (SWS) will move to the Prospect school building on Capitol Hill next fall. That building was originally scheduled for a renovation in 2014. Now, DC Public Schools and Mayor Gray are trying to delay the improvements until 2016, fully three years after our kids start attending school there. The city says this area of Capitol Hill is a top priority for improving schools, yet they're still planning to delay the SWS renovations. Instead, we should fund improvements to make the building fit SWS's program at this critical moment of expansion. That's what will attract more parents to join and stay with DC public schools rather than moving to charters.

The removal of the Subsidized Graduate Student Loan which went into effect in July 2012 due to pressure from the Republican Party has & will continue to affect & hurt many students who simply can't afford to continue their studies without this loan. It is a disappointment that the administration seemed to give in to pressure & removed this loan. Through your help we hope that many more students can continue their studies and contribute to this great nation by reaching their full potential and goals, while seeing their dreams become a reality.

To make people aware of the unjustified removal of Dr. Gary Gates, Mrs. Shannon Lewis, and Dr. Michelle Neubauer and to solicit their reinstatement.

Deandre Poole Ph.D. is a professor of communications at Florida Atlantic University in Davie and Boca Raton FL. In February 2013 a student was disruptive and then complained to the University when Poole offfered an exercise from a textbook "Intercultural Comunications: A Contextual Approach." In the exercise students wrote the name of Jesus on paper and then were asked to step on it. (The exercise had been used before without incident. When students refused to step on the name, it was a source of fruitful discussion.) In March, after public criticism, the University apologized and said the exercise would not be used again. But a local pastor has called for a protest march and an online campaign to fire Dr Poole. As Dr Poole's friends, we want to tell the University President and the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida that it would be dangerous to bend to such pressure. Please help us protect the separation of church and state, which protects us all.

Common Core is here/ coming to Connecticut. This dumbing down of standards impacts all of our children. It is a corporate/ government takeover of our education system that removes educational choices at the local level, and enslaves local schools to federal dollars.

PL 86-1256 passed January 01, 1991 amended the Illinois School Code requiring elementary and high schools to include in their curricula a unit of instruction on the events of Black History including contributions made by African Americans to certain development not only in the United Stated but also in Africa. CPS/CBOE has not complied with the law!