I am a little concern because after every Election members are sometimes cut whether it is Hours or Losing their jobs .

Full day kindergarten has become the norm in Early childhood education in the United States. It is a fact, that half day kindergarten deprives our children of the necessary, fundamental education that they deserve and we expect.

Being a librarian for going on 30 years, I have witnessed the demise of the library in the public school setting. With drastic cuts in state education budgets, libraries were hit hard and resulted in over half the schools in America without functioning libraries. Libraries have always been the heart of a learning institution. Literacy rates soar with a good library and we need a literate future society.

In Pennsylvania families like mine pay 40% of net income for their children's early education. Single parents receive help, people with extremely low income receive help. But those people who decide to marry and work full time jobs receive absolutely no help. My family would be better off financially if i left the house. The family would be showered with benefits including subsidized daycare. Many families choose to live separately, or never marry because they would rather not worry about picking what bills to skip out on paying because they spent $1400 on daycare for the month, more than the rent, car payment, insurance, food combined.

Every year our teachers struggle at home to pay their bills, while still being expected to make it work on time in order to teach our children and sometimes even expected to come out of pocket to pay for classroom activities necessary for our children's development and success. I know this is happening because I was a first hand witness; my mother was a teacher and educator for over two decades.

Creation Theory is best taught in the home and Church, not in Public Schools. Science and Geology are subjects for academic study, not religious dogma! However well intentioned,"creationism" is not a suitable school subject. Diversity of religion is a basic foundation of American liberty. Let the parents decide religious views for their children, not the government of Indiana.

We are deeply concerned about the rising class size at Brown Elementary School. Larger class size means less individualized attention for our students. We need to find a way to reduce class size at Brown for the 2013-14 school year, especially for the rising first grade class.

Improving our country's low ranking in education.

Expanding Student Loan Forgiveness Program to include those who work less than full time in public service

It is only fair that this proposal be legislated and enforced in order to (1) make it clear to all educational authorities that placing and/or keeping a person of any age who is capable of learning at his/her full potential without special education in special education in even the slightest degree will not be tolerated, even if a parent and/or guardian of the person wants and/or has ever wanted the person to be in special education and (2) undo the pain, shame, suffering, and embarrassment caused as a result of one's having been a student in special education in even the slightest degree!

I experience first hand (by Mentoring youth who are in Detention Centers) the need for more affordable, positive and safe facilities for After School Care. While graduation rates decline, crime and gang activity is on the incline.

the children of alabama's education is becoming self funding to ease this problem our state needs to join other states that boast of the millions of dollars that the lottery has sent to educate their children