The new national curriculum is a burden that is wreaking havoc in American public school classrooms. Teachers are being bullied everyday by administrators, legislators and business executives who have no experience in the field of education. Companies like Bain and Walmart are influencing the passing of dangerous laws that restrict the rights and freedom of teachers , and people like Bill Gates are influencing educational policy. Academics have been pushed to the side in favor of technology and testing. In addition, the national curriculum, the child of Bush's No Child Left Behind is further eroding real teaching. Data is now driving instruction and technology use in the classroom is being forced upon students and teachers, although even the American Pediatric Association recognizes the dangers of excessive screen use and recommends no more than two hours of screen time per day. Education is NOT a BUSINESS and should not be run like one. Children and teachers are individuals and this one size, robo-teacher concept is nothing short of frightening. Actual teacher centered classrooms are no longer allowed, and teachers, experienced ones in particular, are being threatened and bullied in classrooms across the country everyday. That teachers have been maligned and demonized in the last several years is sad, but what we are doing to our children is even more so. Public school children, especially minority and poor ones, are being left further and further behind everyday. Please, repeal the national curriculum and kick businesses out of the educational policy debate. Give teachers back their ability to teach. Our futures and those of our children depend upon this. And, please, talk to teachers before making wide sweeping changes in education. I would not know how to do your job, could you do mine? Tomorrow I will go to school and teach King Lear, The Grapes of Wrath and The Great Gatsby to my junior and senior classes. And as I do, I will be thinking in the back of my mind that I could be caught doing so by an administrator. But the fear of what we are doing to our children is stronger even than the fear of reprisal. So I will continue to teach, everyday, until I am allowed to do so openly once again, or until I am let go which becomes a greater and greater possibility with each new law passed.

Wyomissing Area teachers are starting their second year without a contract and have had their salaries frozen for many months. In spite of this the Wyomissing Area Jr.-Senior High School was ranked the fifth best high school in Pennsylvania by U.S. News and World Report and all buildings have received numerous other accolades. They deserve to be treated fairly and with respect by the school board.

Bring back vocational programs into high schools. Help create apprenticeships that coordinate with trade unions to bring industry back to America.

Our teachers are under attack. Chicago's teachers have been fighting to save school libraries, art and music education and, funding so students can learn in classrooms with air-conditioning. When Chicago Public Schools CEO J.C. Brizard refused to compromise, Chicago's Teachers Union voted to strike to save public schools. Now anti-union special interests are attacking the Chicago teachers union claiming greed and self interest. Save our schools, stand with Chicago Teachers today!

Stopping HESAA from lying to borrowers about their flexibility and making it easier for students to pay back their student loans.

Public education in America is in turmoil, and the issues are far from simple. Time and again we hear opinions from one side of the debate, and rarely do we hear an alternate view. Diane Ravitch brings clarity and insight, yet she is rarely invited to speak on television.

Maybe a YES will be heard from the Republicans if we get enough signatures. President Obama will need some yes responses next term. After all he did all the work during his first term and now it's time for the Republicans to stop sitting in their corner of the House of Representative and saying, "NO, NO, NO,"

The State of Indiana cut public school education funding by $600 million over 2 years. Later, the state found "$2 billion" that they had all along. The state legislature should return $600 million to the budget for public school education.

Our education system in Iowa is perhaps our greatest strength, and much of it comes from teachers from K-12 and in higher education. They are among the best in the country. I know, because I am a proud college professor, who teaches online for nearly every community college in Iowa. Every semester, my classes are full, and it's because I work hard to present and teach the most robust, learning friendly courses possible. And I mean I work hard and I work for the benefit of my students to be their solution to receiving a meaningful education. As a result, they do, and when they go to work in Iowa, they are armed with knowledge and skills I have helped them attain to better our fine state. Teachers are not the problem; they are the solution!

Every year our schools have to endure cut backs like physical education, music, art, and foreign languages. My children's schools no longer require Physical Education throughout their school years where PE was required through every year that I went to school, from kindergarten to my senior year in high school. Tell the President that our country would be far safer with educated children than with massive amounts of weapons and deploying our soldiers to kill other people.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is campaigning to effectively cut teacher's pay by 3%. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional yet Snyder is determined to hurt not only the teachers of Michigan but the children who attend all public schools.

Please support funding for this school program: http://www.indiegogo.com/Emotional-Imprint This is a revolutionary concept in education. Watch the video and see if you agree that we need this in our school systems, especially here in Alaska with all the psychological and social problems we have. This is true leadership and success training!