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.

The State of Kentucky should use every availible piece of legislation handed down from President Obama to save and advance our children's education into the 21st Century. As well as help end No Child Left Behind, insuring all children recieve an equal and world leading factually based education. With the very best teachers to proceed with the projected measures to put our kids far into the 21st Century and ahead of the rest of the world. All parents, community leaders and educators should sign this petition. as well as those in our local and state governments.

Fund for Community Centers and Defund for Prisons

Budget cuts to Florida Atlantic University and the State University System are short-sighted and will have long-term detrimental effects to both higher education and the economy. Florida Atlantic University has an estimated economic impact of $4 billion annually in its six-county service region. Economists estimated that the universities and related businesses are responsible directly and indirectly for about 771,000 jobs in the state, or 7.9 percent of the state's work force. 1. Cutting FAU's budget will hurt not only the students, faculty and staff directly, but also the community at large..."Florida Atlantic University has an estimated economic impact of $4 billion annually in its six-county service region, according to a recently released sponsored project report to the Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida. The study was led by Alan W. Hodges, Ph.D., at the University of Florida, and Julie Harrington, Ph.D., at Florida State University. To put it into perspective, the $4 billion economic impact is the equivalent impact of 10 Super Bowls, 15 Oasis of the Seas cruises or seven Fort Lauderdale boat shows. The report also states that FAU has had a positive direct or indirect impact on 59,000 full-time and part-time jobs across the service region. According to the study, present value over a 30-year period of a bachelor’s degree from a state university in Florida is $550,000, while a graduate degree is worth $1.87 million." In terms of percentage of gross national product, the economic impact resulting from an SUS-earned degree is comparable to the economic impact of all defense spending in Florida — 7.25 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively," Harrington said.” “The study found that the 11 public universities had a nearly $52 billion value-added economic impact on the state's economy during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, which ended in June 2010. That represents a little more than 7.25 percent of the state's total economic activity and includes regional multiplier effects produced by government and household spending by those who work for, attend or conduct business related to the State University System. The economists estimated that the universities and related businesses are responsible directly and indirectly for about 771,000 jobs in the state, or 7.9 percent of the state's work force. The study did not include spending on college sports events, nor did it include spending by university technology "spinoff" companies.” Since 2008, state spending on education has dropped by 24 percent. 2. Budget cuts to FAU and the State University System will affect the long-term development of industries and jobs and the earning potential of Florida's residents for years to come. If well-educated workers are unavailable companies won't be attracted to Florida. If Florida doesn't have well-paying jobs the individual earning power of Florida residents will be affected. This in turn will affect their spending power and Florida’s overall economy. “A new economic study suggests that having a degree from one of Florida's 11 state universities can be a financial lifesaver — equivalent to more than $1 million in a worker's lifetime earnings. Using data from the state's Department of Education, the study found these average annual earnings for Florida high school and university graduates in fiscal year 2009-2010 who were employed in Florida that year: those with a high school diploma, $20,924; those with a bachelor's degree, $36,520; those with a master's degree, $58,698; those with a doctorate, $66,743, and professionals, such as physicians or attorneys, $70,716. The salary gap between college degree holders and those with high school diplomas was not unexpected, but the results were substantive nonetheless, Harrington said. The Board of Governors of the State University System (SUS) requested the economic study to update earlier figures, said Julie Harrington, director of Florida State University's Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis. The team included economists from FSU and the University of Florida.” Sources: http://www.fred.ifas.ufl.edu/economic-impact-analysis/pdf/SUS-of-Florida-FY-2009-10.pdf https://fauf.fau.edu/wordpress/?p=3648 http://www.fsu.edu/news/2012/02/14/bog.study/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/us/florida-set-for-new-cut-in-spending-on-colleges.html?_r=1&hp http://www.fau.edu/mediarelations/releases0212/021222.php

This is important for the future of our children.