NC must continue to fund preK education for all children. Leave the preK education in the public schools and do NOT lower the assistance level to a family of 4 earning $22,000. The moral, financial and physical health of NC depends on a strong education system for ALL children.

.Oklahoma ranks 49th nationally in per student spending and below average in student literacy. With a surplus in the state budget going to the rainy day fund and to pay for her income tax cuts, where is education ranking on her list of priorities? We're calling on Governor Fallin to stop cutting education spending so she can boost her friends in the oil and natural gas industries that are not having any problems accumulating wealth.

Students with autism spectrum disorders; training required of personnel. Requires each school board to ensure that aides assigned to work with a teacher who has primary oversight of students with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate competency in student behavioral management within 60 days of assignment to such responsibility. The bill also requires the Board of Education to provide standards that school divisions may use to establish a measure for the demonstration of competency in student behavioral management.

In the 8th Grade at Cabin John Middle School, there are only two choices for English - "Advanced" or On-Level. If you get an "A" or "B" in the Advanced class, it appears on your high school transcript (as a non-honors elective) impacting your high school GPA. If you get a "C," it does not appear on your high school transcript. Thus students who are not quite able to achieve an "A" are better off slacking off and aiming for a "C," rather than impacting their high school GPA with a "B." Is this REALLY what we want to be teaching our 8th graders??!!

If you are a co-signer on a student loan with SallieMae, they will not permit the co-signer to renegotiate the repayment terms that the co-signer can afford. They refuse to take partial payments even when the student is chronically unemployed and the co-signer is on a fixed income.

Mississippi is already underfunding education to the tune of 200 million dollars and the new governor is cutting another 90 million dollars this year. Charter schools will take much needed funds from our public schools and will not serve all children, especially those with disabilities.

Orange County School Board needs public support to increase Real Estate taxes by $.08 instead of the historical $.01. Our schools are drastically underfunded in comparison to surrounding counties.

I believe that education of our youth is on of the most vital tasks we face in this generation and for generations to come. If we lose our teachers, we lose our skills, understanding, and potential for bringing our state and our nation to fruition and visions for the future. Please reverse these cuts to our state budget, and help to bring our hopes and dreams to pass for today and tomorrow.

Oregon will soon be making some enormous changes to our educational system. These changes are coming at us fast. But guess what? Most of the people responsible for these changes are not educators--they are politicians, CEOs, and administrators. We need professional educators at the helm of this ship, not people outside the profession. Please help us to make this happen. Your signature will move us one step closer towards making sure this is a process led by professional educators and not an educational reform movement led by politically motivated administrators and CEOs. Thank you. Andrew Cohen, Portland Community College Scott Dionne, Portland Community College Maria Caruso, Portland Community College Kristin Bryant, Portland Community College Bryan Hull, Portland Community College

Is Gov.Corbett deliberately trying to undermine education in PA? Is this part of Norquist's agenda, to whom Corbett pays homage? What's going on? Gov. Corbett, restore funding to the schools. You were hired to serve the citizens of PA, not Norquist.

The task force recommendations, which are opposed by students and educators, will reduce access to education, funnel students into select educational tracks, and force students into higher student loan debt. Task force funding is supplied by organizations who will benefit from increased student loans and increased use of technology.

In Culver City, parents can set up nonprofit organizations and pool donations to provide a better education for our children. For many years parent's donations have paid for native speaking adjuncts (at El Marino) to provide vital help in language immersion classrooms, as well as other booster club supported positions, such as classroom helpers at Linwood E. Howe. Other schools have similar programs, or would like to start similar programs. 1- The union "Association of Classified Employees" or ACE wants to take over these programs and force booster club financed adjuncts and other part time employees to join the union, and they threaten a lawsuit. 2- Since the same small pool of donations would have to pay for union dues, administrative overhead and higher union wages, our kids may only receive about half of the attention they get now. Parents will lose control of their programs and see their donations pay for very little. Many parents may stop donating altogether, effectively killing the programs. 3- The Culver City school board needs a reason to stand up to the union. By signing this petition you are adding your voice to ask the school board to protect parent-funded volunteer programs and services across the entire Culver City Unified School District. ************************************************************************************** We are about to lose one of the best parts of our children's education: our volunteers, and our parent-supported positions. The Culver City School District (CCUSD) is under threat of a lawsuit by the Association of Classified Employees (ACE). The district told parents that all ACE believes that parent-funded positions can be seen as taking away work from members of their union. Parent leaders at all schools are working together to fight this threat! We need your help and support. Parents were recently informed that the Association of Classified Employees (ACE) President Debbie Hamme has threatened to file a grievance, seeking to force all Culver City Unified School District (CCUSD) parent-funded booster clubs to cease and desist the employment of paid classroom volunteers. ORIGIN OF THE CRISIS According to the district, the origin of this "crisis" is the threat of a lawsuit against the district issued by the leader of the Association of Classified Employees, Debbi Hamme. The district has told parents that all booster club (parent-funded) positions and other volunteer work by parents that could be seen as taking away work from members of Ms. Hamme's association may have to stop. The parents would then be responsible to give enough funds to the district so that it could hire union members of ACE for those positions. Moreover, due to union and district requirements, the current paid volunteers are likely to be fired and replaced. Alternatively the current paid workers would be forced to join the union. Because the current wages of the booster club funded positions are raised 100 percent by the parents - at zero cost to the district - the union further wants the booster clubs to continue to fund raise and send the money directly to the district to pay union employees. Because the unions require that all employees be paid the union scale, the booster clubs would have to raise significantly more money to pay the higher wages. The booster clubs would be expected to continue paying for the programs, but lose all rights of hiring, control, supervision or decision-making. We do not have confidence that Culver City parents will donate directly to the district, and simply trust the district to use the money wisely, that parents will pay any additional overhead and that the district will somehow find the resources to administer and supervise the programs. The consensus is that parents will not continue to fund under those circumstances. WHAT WE WANT We believe that parent-funded programs work. In this current economic climate, when more and more funds are being diverted from education, parents have stepped up to fill the gap. Culver City nonprofit booster clubs have come up with creative ways to provide necessary workers to the classrooms that our school district does not supply on its own. No booster club supported jobs have taken employment away from any union member. • We ask CCUSD to protect the volunteers and parent-supported services across CCUSD to the maximum extent allowed by law. • We want the school district to treat the parents equitably. • We insist that our school district give ALL parents at ALL schools the right to fund-raise for positions that are not supplied by the school district, but which have been identified as necessary in our children’s education. • We want CCUSD to give parents at all schools the right to fund raise for positions and then manage those positions by their nonprofit in coordination with the site principal (as is the right of any independent contractor). CASE EXAMPLES: LINWOOD E. HOWE had created and fund-raised for four in-class instructional assistants for the 2010-11 year and had fund raised enough for six this year. Under threat of legal action from ACE, the Linwood E Howe Boosters agreed to a compromise, which reduced the scale of the program significantly. Instead of six instructional assistants, the parents had to scale back and have gone most of the year with three part-time positions. Based on that experience, the head of the booster club at Lin Howe is not confident the program will be able to continue without a clear policy from the school board. EL MARINO The leaders of the 23 year years strong Advocates for Language Learning El Marino (ALLEM) at El Marino were also told that they could no longer run the adjunct program. Adjuncts are native language support providers, who help the teachers and students in the classroom, in either Japanese or Spanish. They would have to turn over all the money they privately fund-raised to the district and the district would hire the union members. According to t...