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.

There have been several issues which seem to have polarized our community with respect to the school district. We believe that improving communication between the community and the school board could help ease some of this discord and potentially provide a forum to resolve conflict and restore confidence in our leadership.

*Note* Please, if you're going to sign, keep it serious. If we have a bunch of stupid comments, no one will take us seriously. Sign this petition to try to convince Ms. Tully to reverse her attendance, tardy, and study hall policies. These policies are creating and excacerbating more problems than they are assuaging. Share this petition with people on Facebook, etc. I am going to make some flyers with the link on them to put around school; if anyone feels like helping with that let me know @ Jacob Moffatt on Facebook or [email protected] by email. We easily got past 50 signatures in one night. When signing your name and your own message, please try to use proper grammar syntax and spelling; nothing kills a petition for education like uneducation. Short term goal is 300 signatures. Long term goal is 1000.

HB 1440, New Hampshire’s 2012 Driver Education Bill, would provide an affordable online driver education option, with parent provided behind-the-wheel training, for teenagers. Many teenagers wait until age 18 to get their driver’s license, when they don’t have to take a driver ed course, because they can't afford the high cost of driving school tuition. HB 1440 would give all NH teenagers an equal opportunity to be educated in this important area.

Education is an important part of society. Children aren't being educated properly and children in turn are turning to crime to make a living. Stop playing with our children's lives and fund education properly!

The Alabama legislature is facing an agenda packed with urgent issues: Alabama's awful immigration law, Medicaid cuts and taking money from public schools to balance the state budget. Alabamaians ought to make their voices heard on these issues.

I am trying to reform an after-school program in two Charleston inner-city schools, and I'm disgusted about the lack of allocated funds to after-school programs and continuing education. Many students that I have come to care about cannot afford the program and do not relearn what they learn during school hours. If we're going to make a better education system, we'll need South Carolina government to get behind the initiative to cause real change in Charleston County Schools and the Corridor of Shame. Instead of handing out tax exemptions, perhaps we should focus on educational innovation!

We the people hereby demand that America's school principals, teachers and staff, including bus drivers, provide a safe environment for our children. Charges need to be filed against those that do not adhere to strict guidelines regarding ANY incidence of bullying or adverse behavior among students during school hours.