Public education all across America is under attack. Their plan is simple, make teachers & teachers' unions appear to be the reason public schools are failing in America, then use that anger to privatize America's most successful public resource. Please sign our petition in support of Teachers, their Unions and their support of educating America's children.

We recognize that creativity is required to solve the complex challenges society faces, and that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) alone may not be enough. The flexible thinking, risk taking, and creative problem-solving techniques that are taught through art and design are needed for innovation in today's changing world. We encourage the support of House Resolution 319: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that adding art and design into Federal programs that target the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields encourages innovation and economic growth in the United States.

This petition is to keep an IB school program for a local grade school, Hayden Meadows. The program called PYP is under attack by a minority in the community who feel the education program is linked with the U.N. and a conspiracy to teach children to think globally and undermine their Christian American values. They are claiming the results of the program are not justified by the cost which has been proven not so by test scores alone.

I have young male customers intersted in learning the barber trade and they often ask me how they can get started in the industry.Well they offer cosmetology to students here in Anne Arundel County but not barbering. We support and have employeed young girls from the program over the years. However, my concern is for the young men who want to be barbers. They have to wait to attend a barber school after high school whereas the girls have cosmetology training throughout high school and graduate high school as liscensed cosmotoligists. I think it is unfair and as a business owner could benefit from having a pool of young energetic barbers to choose from when necesarry.

Chicago currently has an appointed Board of Education hand-picked by the mayor. The recent teachers strike in the city of Chicago has shown that the current board is interested in privatizing and dismantling public education. We need to elect and hold board members accountable through the democratic process.

The Chicago teachers strike is over. Mayor Emanuel and his "education reform" allies are spending a huge amount of money bombarding the airwaves with propaganda that is misleading and untrue. It's time to end the commercials and have these rich donors give the money to causes (non-ideological causes) that improve the lives of Chicago's children.

Delaware Valley School District is proposing to build a new elementary school with taxpayer money on an existing high pressure natural gas pipeline. Industry experts have agreed these children would be placed in a risk with loss of life.

My Petition is for children in poor committee and the teacher who now that they have bright student in there class rooms. I have nothing against Charter Schools, but before there where charter schools, public schools where just great. Until Corporation came into the picture. Being from a poor committee my mother work with her five children and went to school her self. to learn how to help her children, and work with the Teacher. Teacher are not babysitters, they are TEACHERS AND TEACHERS TEACH LEANING.

I went to a college that was not accredited, and not only did it ruin my credit but wasted my time. I could have been going to a real college to get a better job so I can pay back this loan.

On wednesday 26 September 2012 the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Office of Career Services will be hosting a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruitment event on campus. The CIA has a history of recruiting students and professors to spy on other students and faculty, performing unethical mind control experiments on students (Project MKUltra), as well as a long list of repeated violations of human rights and international law. Activities such as these are unacceptable and will not be tolerated at APSU. We are calling on the campus administration to uphold the student code of conduct and not allow the CIA on our campus.

Long time student loan debt that won't be paid off in my lifetime because of age.

Jackson Public School students and parents are calling for the immediate adoption of the Mississippi Student Bill of Rights by their schools. The MS SBR's articulate ten rights that all MS students should have in their schools. For too long our rights have been consistently and routinely violated; this must stop immediately and the protections of MS SBR must be adopted by our schools. Students deserve the right to be treated humanely, with respect, free from discrimination and prejudice as they pursue their education. Students deserve exceptional teachers, administrators, and other staff who's first goal is always the best interest of the students. Students deserve resources and information that will provide us with opportunities to achieve our full potential. The school environment must be a conducive place for learning and achieving, not a place of criminalization and penalization. Students are the future of MS, we should be treated as such if this state is to succeed and prosper. Adopting the MS SBR is a necessary and critical step in achieving all of this for JPS students. Mississippi Student Bill of Rights PREAMBLE: We, the students of Mississippi, in order to have the greatest chances for success, have defined ten critical areas that will prepare us for our future. We commit to engaging our school, community, and state leaders on these issues so that – together – we can create a better Mississippi for all. 1. Equal Opportunity: We must be treated equally regardless of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. We must have full funding for public education and access to healthcare. Equal, quality education and healthcare must be provided for all of us. 2. Safety: Every school must be a safe and supportive place for learning. Police in our schools should protect us from harm and not be misused to enforce zero tolerance policies against us. Find alternatives to the harsh overuse of zero tolerance policies that do not criminalize typical student behavior. Educate us don’t incarcerate us. 3. Sex Education: We deserve access to medically accurate, comprehensive information about sex, teen pregnancy, and STD/Is and how these things affect our bodies and communities. It is hard to find comprehensive information about our bodies because curriculums like Abstinence Only/Plus are not sufficient. 4. Respect: Treat us as key partners in changing our schools by ending the overly harsh disciplinary practices and policies that push youth into the School to Prison Pipeline. The reliance on this creates a prison-like environment that takes away our power to positively influence our schools and communities. Educate us through positive behavior methods and alternatives to suspensions, expulsions, and arrests. 5. The Best Teachers: We deserve accurate, fair, and non-biased standardized testing by investing in alternatives that teach us and not just test us. Provide us with the best, most highly qualified teachers who inspire quality results in reading, writing, science, math, art, history and music. 6. Tools: Provide us with the resources needed to learn: books, lab supplies, musical instruments, art supplies, computers, and the latest educational technology that will help us be competitive in the 21st century. 7. Leadership: We hold all leaders accountable for vision, courage, and results. We will do this by actively participating and encouraging our leaders to do what is best for us; nothing about us without us. 8. Extracurriculars: We deserve out of school activities to expand our opportunities and skills that give us safe, fun, and enriching places to be when not in school and opportunities for quality employment. 9. Starting Younger: We deserve quality pre-Kindergarten education. Kindergarten should be the next step, not the first step, in education. 10. Ready for Life: Our diplomas must not just be a piece of paper. Our leaders must take the necessary steps to ensure that our diploma means that we’re ready for college, work, and life. This document was created by MS youth through the ACLU of MS’s Youth Justice Project