• Take Back our Money: Stop giving subsidies to oil companies
    2 billion dollars of OUR money is given to the BIG 5 oil companies every year. These companies are raking in record profits. That money woul dbe better spent by hiring teachers in math and science to improve scores in public schools.
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    Created by Sarah
  • Won't Back Down: Won't Watch it.
    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.
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    Created by Jim Amatucci
  • Support STEM to STEAM initiatives
    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.
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    Created by Meghan Reilly Michaud
  • Keep PYP at Hayden Meadows School
    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.
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    Created by Adam Graves
  • Add barbering to the vocational schools curriculum in Maryland
    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.
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    Created by Angelo Richardson
  • Elected, Not Appointed: Chicago Board of Education
    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.
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    Created by Sue Hiering
  • Mayor Emanuel, stop the commercials!
    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.
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    Created by Carl Nyberg
  • Don't let Delaware Valley School District put our children's lives in danger.
    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.
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    Created by Jack O'Leary
  • Help save Public School and the teacher who work in them.
    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.
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    Created by Sheryll
  • If a college is not accredited then they should not receive government funding.
    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.
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    Created by Alfie Weathers
  • CIA OFF AUSTIN PEAY'S CAMPUS!
    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.
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    Created by Preston Gilmore
  • Student Loan Debt
    Long time student loan debt that won't be paid off in my lifetime because of age.
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    Created by Daniel C. Craig