• Tell Portland Public Schools: Stop closing OUR schools!
    For years now Portland Public Schools has been systematically closing down its neighborhood schools, primarily those serving students and families of color. Last year they closed 2 schools. This year they are preparing to close yet another one. This practice undermines public education, segregates schools and tears neighborhoods apart. If PPS truly believes in equity like it claims to, school closures are NOT a solution!
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    Created by Stephen Siegel
  • Restore Funding to Education
    I am a teacher in the Middleton School District. We currently have 15 furlough days. Providing quality educators need to be a priority. We will not be able to retain and attract quality teachers in our state if we do not provide adequate funding for education.
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    Created by Shannon Forrester
  • School Vouchers Need to stay
    My personal experiance with the School Voucher System has been a blessing for my daughter. There are groups that would like to eliminate the voucher system. Please sign this to let our representatives know that we should keep the school voucher system in place.
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    Created by Tom B
  • School Vouchers Need to stay
    Keeping the school voucher system in place.
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    Created by Tom B
  • Proposed Calendar for Chicago Public Schools
    As a parent and teacher, I want the Chicago Board of Education to postpone their vote on the proposed schedule until parents and teachers have had a chance to evaluate the effects of the new schedule on their children's education.
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    Created by Jonathan Zielinski
  • Set a standard minimum per student expenditure levle in public schools across America
    By pegging per student expenditure levels to those at the best academically performing schools in America, the new funding mechanism will establish a per-student expenditure that insures all public schools will have equal access educational resources and professional quality curriculum while minimizing the destabilizing effects on public education quality created by the funding parameters set by the "No Child Left Behind" policy.
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    Created by Jason
  • Dewhurst: Put Wendy Davis back where she belongs!
    Lt. Gov. Dewhurst just removed Sen. Wendy Davis from the Education Committee. She has been one of the few real voices for public education in Texas, and they are trying to silence her! We need Sen. Wendy Davis on the Education Committee to hold them accountable.
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    Created by Melanie Harvey
  • Equal Pay for Equal Work at UM
    Lecturers and professors at the University of Michigan teach the same courses with no evidence of any difference in the quality of their teaching. Students pay the same amount of tuition for a course, regardless of who teaches it. Yet lecturers are paid significantly less for their teaching than professors are. (For additional information, visit the website http://www.leounion.org and read the report "Teaching Equality.")
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    Created by LEO
  • Forgive Student Loan Debt
    Student Loan payments, I am concerned because I do not know how much longer I can continue to pay which will only put me in default and the interest will start all over again. I will never finish paying my student loans not because I am not complying but because it is abuse on the part of the Federal Government. yes I feel I have been personally effected by it. I have been paying for 5 years $300.00 per month and now $320.00 for one year. I feel I have paid my debt and should been forgiven on Student Loans.
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    Created by Mary Nunez
  • Let's put God back in our schools
    After all the school shootings that have taken place in our country all we do is look for a scape goat. When the real blame should be in ourselves as a nation. We have stepped away from God and the bible and taken away the very reason to act as a civilized peoples. Let's put the Ten Commandments back in our schools as well as singing the Pledge of Alegiance in the morning at every school. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
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    Created by Travis Miller
  • public education should offer self defense classes free of charge to all employees
    Offer free self defense classes and non lethal training to public education employees. The best defense is a good offense.
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    Created by Ryan Locklear
  • Don't raise tuition on Connecticut students
    I was alarmed when I heard that the state's budget gap might result in large tuition increases (3 to 14 percent) for students at Connecticut's Colleges and Universities like me. It could mean a hike of more than a thousand dollars in tuition. This would make going to school next semester significantly harder for me, and, and impossible for many. What makes the matter even more upsetting is that students, who are most impacted by these decisions, have a diminishing voice on the Board of Regents (only 2 of the 19 members). This is unacceptable.
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    Created by Danny Ravizza