Tanya Mcdowell is convicted of "Stealing Eduation" she is a homeless mother who just wanted a better education for her son. She has been sentenced to a 12 year suspended sentence after 5yrs served, and has to pay restitution. Sending an American to jail for trying to get her son a better education is an outrage! Tell Gov. Malloy, to stand up for childrens right to get the best education, and keep Tanya Mcdowell out of jail.

Tuition at UF, FSU and three other universities has climbed 60 percent over the past four years. Its time we Told the Governor and State Legislature to suspend past and present Tuition Hikes for the next 10 years and to only have a 3% tuition Hike annually after 10 year suspension. Contact the Governor Rick Scott and your state legislature and tell them know to suspend all tuition hikes from last year and this year....Let them know how you feel.

College students in Georgiau have to have a 3.0 and the grade point average keeps going up.I feel as if that it is to high. Its not fair that the future is not recieveing all the help they should. Georgia students, have jobs and are staying in school. At least we can bring the grade point average down to a 2.8. These children or young adults are doing the right thing by going to school. Let us do the right thing and help them. BRING DOWN THE GPA FOR HOPE!

Florida State University has had over 100 million dollars cut in the past four years from its recurring budget. Now, the Florida Legislature plans to cut at least another $250 million from higher education, and FSU faces at least a $10 million dollar cut or being stripped of reserve funds. Students are paying more for less. Support this petition if you don't want to see continued tuition increases or decreased academic services.

Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never entered. It offended her teachers so much that, after harassment from teachers and school administrators at School #3, Miss Williams was forced to leave the school. http://blacklikemoi.com/2012/02/black-history/13-yr-old-allegedly-persecuted-by-teachers-for-radical-essay-on-frederick-douglass/

SB 6442 eliminates K-12 school employees’ current health care system and forces everyone into a costly new plan run by the state health care bureaucracy. SB 6442 will cost Washington taxpayers $45 million in new costs! SB 6442 will increase school employee insurance costs and reduce employee health care benefits! SB 6442 hurts everyone, including education support professionals. SB 6442 eliminates employer health care coverage for K-12 employees who work less than half time!

SB 6442 eliminates K-12 school employees’ current health care system and forces everyone into a costly new plan run by the state health care bureaucracy. SB 6442 will cost Washington taxpayers $45 million in new costs! SB 6442 will increase school employee insurance costs and reduce employee health care benefits! SB 6442 hurts everyone, including education support professionals. SB 6442 eliminates employer health care coverage for K-12 employees who work less than half time!

My petition would start classes from high school, to college. A single class would enable the student to obeserve themselves, in the mirror. Too many times, have I seen a sucessful-educated person, who has no idea; what life is really about. So I propose we introduce classes in school systems. Having children talk about: character issues, pride, fear, ego etc. Teach our children that: big cars, golf memberships and fancy ties; will not find you complete happiness. Imagaine the effects on the ecomonoy, in the long-run. Divorces woud go down; crime-rate decreased; TAXES would go down; so much more. So I move to have a form of classes introduced to our systems, to better improve our children's tomorrow.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel believes in public education for the few, not the many. He has called the rapidly expanding Noble Street Charter Network the “secret sauce” to public education in Chicago. But what’s in that “secret sauce”? $386,745. That’s how much the charter school has made from $5 fines and $280 “behavior classes” imposed on low-income students for behavior like leaning back in your chair, chewing gum, forgetting your belt, and not following the teacher with your eyes at all times. If you can’t pay, your options are limited—be held back a year, or leave the school entirely. Forty percent of all Noble students drop out or transfer before their senior year. It’s a scenario that’s far too common across Chicago, where Mayor Emanuel is aggressively expanding the use of extreme discipline policies at all schools. The rising use of fines, arrests, and multi-week suspensions for infractions that could better be--and once were--handled by a trip to the principal's office means that more and more students are leaving Chicago schools with a record, not a diploma. Black and Latino students, who are over three times more likely to be arrested for minor offenses than white students, are hurt the most by these policies. Our tax dollars should be used to put all our students on a path to college, not a path to prison. Instead of defending Noble, Mayor Emanuel needs to end extreme disciplinary practices at all publicly-funded schools. Tell him that we need a common-sense discipline code that works for all Chicago families.

Therefore, we, the undersigned, strongly encourage Congress and the President to pass legislation to stop student loan interest rates from doubling this summer. Now is the time for real leadership to reduce student loan debt.

Alabama's public schools are poised to lose funding for teachers, librarians, extended day programs, and other popular programs because of potential budget cuts from the Education Trust Fund. Governor Robert Bentley has a chance to reverse these cuts in his upcoming budget. We're calling on him to stand for students, and education and stop the terrible funding cuts to our public schools.

The Portsmouth School Board is poised to name the football field at the original site of Manor High School. The Board has the potential to name individual sporting areas and the entire complex rather than asking several groups to unnecessarily battle over one name for the football field. I am calling on all citizens affiliated with Portsmouth Public Schools to support this effort that will recognize Portsmouth's past, present and future without pitting its citizens against one another.