We should all care about maintaining a separation of church and state, which benefits religious groups by keeping government out of their internal affairs and benefits each of us personally by preventing us from being forced to subsidize religious beliefs or institutions with which we disagree. Also, if our tax money does not go to religious schools (which are constitutionally protected in their right to discrimination and, for example, to teach children that gays and lesbians are undeserving of equal rights), we will have more money for our public schools (which are controlled by us all and cannot legally discriminate).

We do not want our legislators changing Alaska's constitution. These changes will HURT RURAL ALASKA'S SCHOOLS! Members of our legislature, through SJR 9, want to change Alaska's constitution so that it allows private and religious schools, through a voucher system, to have access to Alaska's pool of public education funds. If the constitutional changes do go through this will require public schools to share this money with schools that have little or no oversight. Our rural school families have very few if any school choices outside of our public schools. Small village school families have no choices. Vouchers will not help them! Our pioneer Alaskan trailblazers, in their infinite wisdom, saw the need to keep public school money only for public schools so we can keep our schools current, safe, and a great place to learn and work throughout the whole state.

Children's education is extremely important! I personally do not have children, however take care of children after school.

This petition is to address the need for a student support representative to be present at the Westwood LAO Campus in Ontario, commonly referred to as the Criminal Justice campus or CJ campus.

Over 5.7 million public school children are estimated to be involved in bullying as either a bully, a target of bullying, or both. Increasingly more and more children are being bullied, beaten, and harmed within schools, interfering with the victims receiving their education and what is supposed to be a safe environment. This MUST change to protect our children. Please help us put an end to bullying and get justice for our children.

In order to progress in life we need more than just basic subjects we need to be taught the correct way to cope with life and handle difficult situations that we face on a daily basis. I believe that if we instill these skills into our youth, it will help prevent addictions, criminal behavior and gang Violence. Thank You Ilana Calderon

I am asking that the Texas Legislators Not pass new laws to require Texas teachers to carry guns or take mandated training- as these new laws are extremely dangerous,unnecessary, and place an additional burden on teachers. In addition,funding these proposed new laws is just an additional way to drain monies away from our already underfunded school budgets for academics in order to promote gun sales or training programs. for a few in the business community! at the expense of students/teachers/parents and taxpayers.

Please maintain our Chula Vista adult School. We need it. Its the only school her in Chula Vista that help us to learn for free. Its is a big help to us for we cant afford to study in other adult school nor in university/college. Please allow us to learn. Thank you, Ruth Stoddard of 1674 may Ave., Chula Vista 91913

Reasons you should want a trimester schedule: 1) More electives 2) More credits on graduation, making students more competitive when applying to higher education. (70 minute periods make the credits work out to the state requirements) 3) There's no middle/high school mixing. (High School is then different, making it an exciting new challenge for Middle Schooler's, and something to look forward to.) 4) Classes that are 2/3 of year turn into full year in semesters, forcing students to take classes they do not enjoy for longer, and thusly creating a resistance to learning. People like change in classes for more exciting experience. 5) Tris are longer classes. Therefore students have more work time with teacher assistance and better labs. 6) Having semesters is not popular among students, or parents. This means less money is donated because of less support to school district, and commuters won't want to come, losing the district even more money. The parents of commuters and the commuters students like Vashon because it's unique, it has a ton of interesting electives, and semesters makes less uniqueness and less electives.

Mr. Holley is currently one of two band directors at Thomas Dale High School. He recently received news that he is being transferred to another school. Mr. Holley has been with Thomas Dale for 8 years and has built the band program to its highest point. He has spent years and years building it to be known as the Specialty Center For Music! He is being cut from dale because the County thinks there is no need for 2 band teachers. The band program is very large and is getting 50 times larger next year. Mr. Holley does not want to leave. He is the best teacher that you can find. He has inspired so many people and has and continues to be my inspiration. Please help me save his job and take a minute to sign the petition every signature counts! THANKS!

The CdA School Board of Trustees made a sudden decision to remove PYP, a successful, community-funded program, from Hayden Meadows Elementary School without due diligence. The manner in which they made their decision violated their own code of ethics, demonstrated discrimination and fiscal irresponsibility, and violated Idaho's Open Meeting Law. We believe they should be held accountable for their unethical actions. We petition the board with this grievance to give them an opportunity to reverse their decision and proceed in an ethical manner that is consistent with district and state policy and procedures.

I believe that the school lunches are disgusting. "There were only a few spots on the burger that wasn't gray!" Exclaimed Hailey Wood after taking a bite into a burger Monday, March 11th. Most of the kids don't even eat there lunch. They just look at it and throw it away. The other problem with the school lunches are that the high school students get as much lunch as the preschoolers. We need better school lunches.