• Against Balanced calendar. Cabell cty schools
    If you are against the spreading the current 180 days of school throughout the year and shorter summers then sign this petition! only sign this if you live in Cabell County!
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    Created by Aaron Given
  • mayra uribe
    I am a mother of three babies who unfortunately had to seperate and I find myself going through hard times and not being able to pay for my student loans. A month after I turned 18, I enrolled in college and was introduced to student loans. I finished my associates with a balance of $26, 000 in 2008 and I havent been able to finish my Bachelors. I am afraid of bringing the balance to a higher amount. I can not even afford this loan how would I be able to pay it all. I would love to finish my bachelors because I can not find any well paying positions that does not require a B.A. I feel like I am in a country full of opportunites but why cant I continue growing being a born USCitizen. I have friends who are not even US Citizens and they obtain money through FAFSA and gov't grants without even having loans to pay back. And I am not approved through FAFSA because I work witjout considering the fact that I have three babies and I am single. I qant to finish school and fulfill my dream of obtaining a Masters Degree. Please help.me give my children the opportunity of having an education.
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    Created by mayra uribe
  • Standardized Future
    The standardized testing, also known now as STAAR (formerly TAKS) is making a real education seem out of reach. Our kids are memorizing instead of being taught how to problem solve, and figure out problems on their own. I blame this on our cultures' need to have everything in one click. We should be investing in our kids' education not creating shortcuts for an exemplary status or extra funding. Schools used to be a place for education. Now it seems more like a business. My kids are in the 3rd and 4th grade doing algebra and geometry!! I did this in highschool. They are too young, and there is too much preasure to pass this test. Even teachers are at risk of termination due to poor testing results. Other countries got their education system from the U.S. before all this standadrized mess, and now they are all ahead of the U.S. in education. Bring back the real education that gives our children the right tools, values, and morals for the future, not a shortcut version that creates standardized dummies.
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    Created by Jessica
  • Financially Helping Prisons Instead of Schools
    If you disagree with Governor Corbett's plan to provide less money for education and provide money to correctional facilities that do not help reform individuals, please sign this petition and pass it on to others for support. Governor Corbett, we whole-heartedly disagree with you taking needed monies from education and giving to for-profit correctional facilities.
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    Created by Lorna
  • Student's Educational Loan Interest Too High
    Lets stop the interest on student's educational loans - especially when the loans are in forbearance.
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    Created by Shannon
  • "Stratford University Transportation: Bring back Safety"
    The Stratford University Family safety traveling during the coarse of the day. In the past there was tranportation and know the need is more important in the present. Our Stratford Family safety should be our top priority traveling in the city "Bring back Safety"
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    Created by Ricardo Andrews
  • "Stratford University Transportation: Bring back Safety"
    The Stratford University Family safety traveling during the coarse of the day. In the past there was tranportation and know the need is more important in the present. Our Stratford Family safety should be our top priority traveling in the city "Bring back Safety"
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    Created by Ricardo Andrews
  • Teachers Retirement Discrimination
    When the vote was taken in 2008 to allow BOE employees to transfer out of the TDC (Teachers Defined Contribution) to the old Teachers Defined Benefits there were several people in WV who did not understand what was going on or who were off sick and did not vote. Those employees are forever stuck in a plan that is not equal to those who transferred and to all new employee being hired. Those locked in the TDC plan will never accumulate enough money to be able to retire. I personally one of those who does not have enough to retire on in the TDC plan, but if I could tranfer to the TRS I would be entitled to 36% of my current salary for the rest of my life......so unfair. Please correct this injustice to Teachers and Service personnel
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    Created by Birdie Gandy
  • Graduation Ceremony
    We need all the parents of Silver City Head Start to agree to let the children have a graduation ceremony who are moving on to kindergarten. We all need to be in agreement to let the graduating preschoolers wear caps and gowns.
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    Created by amanda jarrett
  • Cameras on Pulaski County School Busses
    My son rides a Pulaski County Special School District bus. He is being bullied by the bus driver. Opon requesting to view the bus camera I was made aware that there are NO cameras on Pulaski County Busses. Our children deserve to be safe traveling to and from school. Let's help our children feel SAFE and PROTECTED.
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    Created by Tiffany
  • Busing for private schools
    A free education to all children is upheld in all states. Busing is not part of education. If busing is provided for free to public school children, then it should be provided for free to all private school children.
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    Created by Devorah Baron
  • Elimination of the ELA/Math tests.
    My petition is to eliminate the ELA/Math tests from schools. This is "Child Abuse" because the kids are under pressure and don't want to attend school. Kids are under stress for the long hours and complex questions that they have to face within the next month. NOT FEAR for our kids at all. I don't think is fear to hold back a child because of the tests results. All the effort and hours spent for the entire year should be the top priority to pass to the next grade.
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    Created by Jenny Proano