People involved in education KNOW the horrendous condition that the DOE is in now compliments of Mayor Bloomberg! It is imperative that we vote in a new mayor in our next election who will be able to repair the damage that has been done by Bloomberg and his cronies. Christine Quinn will be WORSE than Bloomberg! Teachers need to teach and administrators need to learn what education means.

Just like Governor Scott Walker attacked collective bargaining rights of workers in Wisconsin, Governor Tom Corbett is bent on destroying public education in Pennsylvania. We need to take action now and STOP the right-wing campaign to dismantle public education by cutting school budgets and privatizing schools. It hurts our children now and it jeopardizes their future. It is also killing good jobs that our economy urgently needs. Many public school workers also are parents of school-age children. These families will get hit twice, with their kids losing access to decent public schools and parents losing jobs. There’s still a chance to save schools and jobs before budget talks end. Let’s put our children’s future above politics. Protect public education in Pennsylvania! --Steve Siebert, Philadelphia Schools Maintenance Worker

The Board of Education of the Three Village Central School District is currently considering cuts to a number of programs -- including Junior High Athletics at Murphy and Gelinas JHS -- to reach a 2.99% tax levy. As they will decide on the exact cuts by the next meeting on Tuesday, May 29, we must speak up now to ask the Board to preserve Junior High Athletics from being cut. Prefer to sign a paper copy? Paper petitions are available to sign in the mailbox of 4 West Meadow Rd in Setaket (blue house).

Budget cuts on Education are a bipartisan issue. Stop the proposed budget cuts!!!

Schools generate tons of recyclable material and should reap the benifits and there not getting a cent.

At this time, I urge you to contact members of the administration and board members to convey the importance of programs such as full day kindergarten, Pi, Young Composers, and a 9 period high school day for our academically talented and motivated students. Expressing concerns heard throughout the community, such as teacher's contract negotiations, would also be appropriate as potential solutions to balancing the budget while saving academic programs. Certainly, we value our teachers, but everyone needs to make some concessions to make this budget work. We must communicate our concerns now, in order to have our voices heard before the budget proposals are finalized in a few short days.

Tucson Unified School District's recent decision to abolish the Mexican American studies program calls into question the District's commitment to a federal desegregation order.

The Utah Education Association PAC’s endorsement of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert cannot be allowed to distract Utahns from talking about the facts regarding the lack of support Utah teachers and schools have received under the Herbert Administration. We can all agree Utah has the best teachers, parents, and family oriented communities in the country. All of this is true in spite of a chronic lack of support for our students and teachers from Utah's state government. We are calling on Utahns to show their support for a new administration that will lead a reform of our education system, where teachers can once again be proud of their profession, where the state leads the nation in education – not follows behind in last place – and where the Governor’s Office stands shoulder to shoulder with Utahns for a better education.

Call for UTD to release school by school revote numbers

While Sallie Mae and other greedy loan institutions continue to pillage at the expense of hard-working students, we have a chance to return back to the Land of Milk & Honey. What I am proposing is a 1% interest rate on ALL student loans to be paid back when the student has found FULL-TIME work. Since we have endured years of economic recession, its time to set the record straight on student loans and regain the American Dream. The American people are being forced to choose between feeding their families and insane interest rates for their student loans (set at 7%-35%). We will continue the good fight on Capitol Hill and on the streets of this proud nation. We challenge corporate lobbyists and lenders such as Sallie Mae to come clean and be transparent with their money making schemes!

The Jacksonville School District 117 in Jacksonville, Illinois, has implemented drastic austerity measures that include CLOSING some neighborhood elementary schools. We urge Jacksonville School District 117 to renovate ALL Elementary Schools instead of closing any of them. Closing neighborhood schools is detrimental to neighborhoods, lowers property values, and decreases the neighborhood population over time. Closing a school is a permanent action that harms education. It also threatens neighborhoods by reducing property values, causing an exodus of homeowners, and eliminating a community focal point. Studies show smaller neighborhood schools help to reduce the achievement gap, provide better education, and bridge socio-economic differences. Neighborhood schools are sites of educational excellence, and are anchors for their neighborhoods and our historic districts. By signing this petition, we, the homeowners, parents, business owners and residents of Jacksonville, Illinois, want the Jacksonville School District 117 Board Members, and Administration, to know that we OPPOSE any plans to close Jacksonville's Neighborhood Elementary Schools, and ask the School Board to rescind their decision to close Franklin Elementary School.

I have been a working American for almost my whole life. And today, I'm still repaying a loan from 1981. The more I pay the more in debt I become. Sign this petition to help me and others like me who've been paying a lifetime of student loans and all I wanted was to better myself and lead a productive life. I have a great job, but that's it -- a job. I would like a career, afterall it's costing me near $100,000 I consumed to get a career. Help me America, help me life. Paycheck to paycheck is not living.