We need to give support and funding to our schools in Arizona. Every year the schools are scrambling around trying to figure out where they can cut costs, what teachers and support personnel they can lay off, and what schools to close. We have to put money where our mouths are. The children are our future and need to be our first priority.

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. Scott Dionne

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 educator--they are politicians, CEOs, and administrators. We need change agents who are professional educators to oversee these changes. Help us to make this happen.

The Utah Legislature is attempting to force moral views into the school system to the detriment of children and public health by passing a law that would ban the talk of contraceptives in health and sex education classes, or allow schools to skip sex education all together. Current state law requires teaching abstinence-only programs and educators are not allowed to advocate the use of contraception. Gov. Herbert must be told that we owe our children more than an unrealistic ideal: we owe them an education, and the knowledge that will help them protect themselves.

It is time to launch a citizen's right to use his or her money for the good of the children in his or her community. It is time to make it law that any parent, regardless of income, gender, race, religious affiliation, or status in life should have the right to use his or her share of his school district's per child funding, or ideally state funding, in the form of a voucher that would permit him or her to send their child to the school of their choice, so long as the money is earmarked for teaching of non-religious subjects in that school of choice. It should not matter if the school is itself religiously affiliated, as long as it meets state and district standards of pedagogy for subjects like mathematics, reading, grammar, writing, spelling, geography, history and the social sciences, and no public money is used to fund the teaching of religion. It is hypocritical to limit at the K-12 level what we do not limit at the post-secondary level. We permit PHEAA and federal grants to be used at private and religious affiliated post-secondary schools. Take as an example schools like Catholic Villanova and St. Joseph's University, or private University of Pennsylvania or Dusquesne, etc. We never limit the use of public funds to just the neighborhood community college, for example. We sponsor our children's effort to achieve the best. If we are willing to adequately fund our children and expand their choices once they graduate from high school, should we not also maximize their choices in getting into high school and college in the first place? Vouchers should, by law, be available to every child in the Commonwealth. FInally, we should stop segregating children by school based upon how much housing their parents can afford. All state funding is needed, not local funding, as the major source of school funding. Adjustments can be made that adjust funding per student based on real-evidence of cost regionally, but otherwise funding should be evenly distributed. This may require all districts to pool their resources, or a legistaltively derermined portion of their resources, in a state pool, to be re-distributed per child. Provisions to reimburse home-schoolers for approved and verifiable costs will be determined by the Legislature.

Tony Frank and the entire CSU administration has committed to a vision of excellence in everything the university does. Part of that vision includes the possibility of building a new on-campus stadium. As such, CSU has formed a committee to investigate the feasibility of such a project. We're voicing our support for that process and the potential for such a stadium to be built.

In the state of Missouri, there are currently college students that do not qualify for state scholarships that their colleagues do because they have not yet completed a high school diploma or GED. Let's bring this to the attention of the state of Missouri and try to level the playing field for the sake of our students!

no more cuts in teaching staff in New LOndon schools,or in the art &music depts especially. Reduce #'s of students per teacher, many students here are non-english speaking,placing an extra burden on the already stretched out reduced teaching staff. Local population made up from many nations, newly arrived. drawn here largely by the 2 casinos nearby.

Our lawmakers are taking funds that educate our children and giving these funds to corporations. We will continue to lose teachers and damage our school children 's future if lawmakers continue to cut education funding!

Why has education become so expensive? It's not because children are educated better. On the contrary. They come out of our State High Schools in such a disadvantaged Educational Status, that it is so much easier for the Student to rule out Further Education

While Title IX, in theory, is and has been a respected attempt to provide equality between genders in athletics and academics, a revision to Title IX must be considered. Countless young student-athletes are increasingly losing opportunities to compete for and enroll in higher education institutions. The negative impacts of Title IX are starting to be seen at the high school level as well. Questionable cuts have been made most recently at the University of Delaware, University of Maryland, University of California and Millersville University. The administrations at many Universities across the US have put the educational experience of its students second to profits, how well their school ranks against others, and personal career goals. Administrators are making decisions to cut teams based on short-team incentives, without taking into account the effects on students, both now and in the future. Throughout all of these cuts, administrations have found a way to manipulate Title IX to stand as its excuse. The outdated Title IX has done its job, and is now being abused my selfish administrations. While so many of these Universities are blatantly lying and acting in bad faith, nothing has been done to stop them because of the way Title IX is written and enforced. Sign this petition if you feel the current enforcement of Title IX is doing more wrong that right. Sign this petition if you demand to see a Title IX reform that ensures equal opportunities for both male and female student-athletes, and a certain level of accountability for the Universities involved.

I'VE READ WHERE OUR STATE LEGISLATORS ARE PLANNING TO POSSIBLY CUT FUNDING TO PRE-K PROGRAMS. PLEASE, WE NEED TO CONTINUE PREPARING OUR YOUNG ONES TO BE READY FOR GRADE SCHOOL; ETC.