Due to recent financial cuts, the university has decided to cut courses immediately, starting this SUMMER. The university has cut all graduate level courses with enrollments of less than eleven students, last summer. A similar decision has been made for undergraduate level courses with enrollments of less than twenty-four students. Some of these courses are apart of critical shortage areas within education. Some are only offered one semester a year. Cutting these classes will prevent many students from graduating on time or at all. We are simply asking the university to reconsider their decision and implement cuts only after listening to suggestions from department leaders and identifying each departments specific needs. Students please sign and explain your specific situation. If you have any suggestions to assist the university with solving this problem please comment as well.

Saved from closure for good cause by Emergency Financial Manager, Robert Bobb, DDSD is now slated for closure by new EFM, Roy Roberts. His plan calls for removing the deaf and hard of hearing students from the school built with federal, state and local funds specifically to provide full ADA accommodations and enhanced learning environment to meet their unique language and communication needs, so the building can be "repurposed" as administrators see fit. Students will be scattered to other schools that cannot provide such an environment or the critical mass of same language peers recommended by current research and best practices in the field. DDSD needs to remain the anchor of placements for deaf children and parents need to be allowed to choose it as an option. (http://detroitdayschoolforthedeaf.com)

D.C. can't rock without music education in public schools. Tell Mayor Vincent Gray to stop cutting music program funding in our city schools.

In the state of Massachusetts teachers have lost their rights to negotiate for their health care. Changes are coming that could raise yearly costs. Fees like charging a start up fee per person is going to go into effect, and co-pays are going to go through the roof. We, the supporters of simple rights, are calling on you to sign this and tell Gov. Deval Patrick to give teachers their Collective Bargaining Rights (CBR) back. Stand up and fight for the teachers!

H.R. 1085 Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2011 has been sitting in the House of Representatives for over a year. Passing this bill would remove Federal funding for ineffective abstinence-only education, and redirect funds towards comprehensive sex-education programs that have already proven effective. We urge you to sign this petition to give America's children the education they so desperately need to protect themselves! In 2007, a government-funded research study found that abstinence-only education, which teaches that abstinence is the only accepted form of birth control, isn't actually reducing the rate of STD transmission in teens or teen pregnancies...or even reducing the number of teens who have sex. Plus, the risk taking behaviors are staggering: a recent poll of American high school students showed that almost 40% of sexually active teens didn't use a condom the last time they had sex, and over 75% did not use hormonal birth control. Shocking! But...how can teens use a condom, if they have never been taught what it is? Research has found that comprehensive sex education programs show serious promise in reducing some of the staggering STD transmission and teen pregnancy rates. These programs earn the title of "comprehensive" because in addition to teaching that abstinence is still the safest form of contraception, these programs also teach about the health benefits to condom use and hormonal birth control. These programs even offer American youth educational tools to protect themselves from dating violence and maintain healthy relationships. It's time to take a stand, and tell the government to stop wasting money on useless education. Instead, demand that our children receive a comprehensive education that has been PROVEN to work!

Our educational budget seems to be reduced year after year, please take into consideration that EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS in any part of the world.

Harcum College, Life Transforming Ministries and I-Lead have partnered together in Coatesville to offer Associates Degrees majoring in Leadership Studies, Human Services and Early Childhood Education. With the huge success of this program, we find that our present and past student body desire to matriculate beyond this level of learning. Those who have signed this petition have expressed that they want to enroll in the Bachelor's Degree Program at Eastern University. We would like to offer our help to you in setting up an Eastern site in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

The Southern Huntingdon County School Boards wants to fire the 27 custodians and cafeteria employees and hire a private pro-profit corporation. We need to send a message to the school board that our jobs and our taxes BELONG in Southern Huntingdon County. Stop the campaign to privatize our public schools!

SDUSD approved an initiative mandating all students to take 2 years of Career Technical Education (CTE) courses in the same subject in order to graduate. We want the Board of Trustees to rescind this new requirement for the following reasons: • The CTE graduation requirement was voted by the Board without a full analysis of the impact of implementation, possible shortcomings, and without alignment of CTE courses offered with UC’s and CSU’s. • The CTE requirement is being implemented without notifying parents of affected students until after it is too late for them to take World Languages in middle school, so they are already behind schedule. • It’s inequitable. It’s impossible to offer all the CTE courses at all the schools, and the district does not offer transportation for students whose career plan would benefit from a CTE course offered at a different school. • Forcing a two-year CTE requirement in conjunction with new “a-g” graduation requirements severely curtails or eliminates space for any electives (including in 7th and 8th grade, when they must take a world language), particularly electives that showcase leadership skills that colleges covet, such as ASB, yearbook, etc. • Intervention programs for “a-g” requirements and D and F grades have not been well developed and may necessitate additional course time, but with the CTE requirement, there will be no time in a student’s schedule to implement them. • The 2-year CTE requirement forces students to choose a career pathway at a minimum of age 16, with no opportunity to change their minds. • CTE courses dampen down GPA. Because none are weighted with a 5.0 grade point, they effectively “drag down” a student’s GPA compared to those courses with more rigor, such as AP and Honors. • CTE courses reduce academic rigor. Students applying to college with CTE courses will appear to have had less rigorous academics and be viewed poorly relative to students from other districts without CTE requirements. • Community colleges already offer career courses students beginning at age 15. • High school students transferring into SDUSD (e.g. military families) won’t be able to fulfill these requirements as no other district has these mandates.

Tell our Board of Supervisors that we will NO LONGER accept minimum funding and drastic funding cuts to our school system. Our schools are deteriorating and overcrowded after years of neglect and postponed repairs and improvements. Our teachers are the lowest paid in the area. Our children, teachers and staff deserve to learn and teach in positive environments with up to date textbooks, safe equipment, appropriate instructional tools and technology.

How to help students raise little money for them to go back to school

This petition is addressed to help students, tax payers and teachers. The education reform bill seeks to give vouchers so kids can attend private schools that are not equipped to handle children with disabilities, end teacher tenure meaning a teacher can be fired for any reason even if the reason is not a valid one, teachers would loose their jobs because of student test scores.