Senator Ram Villivalam and Representative Will Guzzardi have agreed to sponsor the Forest Schools for Illinois bill in the state Senate and House. We're so glad to have these progressive champions fight to bring outdoor preschools to Illinois!

In August of 2019, Chicago's Forest Playschool in North Park Village, an outdoor preschool that had been opened for 5 years and had served 200+ families, was forced to close. Forest Playschool was unable to be licensed under the current daycare regulations because those regulations do not allow for outdoor early learning centers. A growing body of research shows that outdoor play and learning is of vital importance for children, contributing greatly to their mental, physical, spiritual, and academic development. And yet, today's children are given 25% less playtime and 50% less unstructured outdoor time than generations before them, leading to increases in childhood nearsightedness, anxiety, ADHD, obesity, and more. Schools like the Forest Playschool can help directly address these problems, but there is currently no legal pathway for them to operate in Illinois. Join me in signing a petition to ask the Illinois State House and Senate to pass a bill to legalize and standardize outdoor preschools in the State of Illinois! If you'd like to learn more visit https://www.forestschoolsforillinois.org/

Currently, Texas A&M- San Antonio only provides an online course for MGMT 4371 -Entrepreneurship: Business Plan Development. This should be allowed to be an option for students, especially since this is a 400 level course. I have also heard of several students dropping the online course due to the learning experience being limited and unsuccessful.

We are starting this petition because we want the safety of students and the community, as students ourselves. We want everyone to be safe and to thrive in a welcoming community without the fear of gun violence through The Judith S. Kaye and Supportive Schools Act (S.0767/A. 1982).

The new food ordering system is unjust and inconvenient. The kiosk system should be removed completely or students who order at the kiosk should receive their food immediately and be placed before those who ordered online.

Give us the freedom of comfort back! And from all of the girls at Ridgepoint, please stop this is neither fun nor fresh!

Little Tyson was only 5 years old. He loved motorcycles and his favorite color was blue. Like many young children, he loved school, his family, and his bus driver. On September 27th, 2019 he was thrown through the windshield of his school bus on his way home. The bus struck a vehicle that pulled out too soon. He was not wearing a seat belt. He left behind his mother, father, and 4 siblings. School bus rules require the smallest children to be placed in front of the bus to monitor them more closely. Ultimately what took his life was not being restrained in a seat belt. Some school buses have belts; most don't. As a mother of a 5-year-old who rides to school on a bus, it has always bothered me that there are no restraints. Illinois and federal law require that children not only be in seat belts but proper car seats while transporting in any motor vehicle, but does not require school buses to have them. Some parents do not have another way to get their kids to school every day. We rely on the buses to safely transport our children there. So if the state and Congress will not find the funds to make our buses safe, they must not care as much about our children as they say they do. Please sign this petition to make it a LAW that ALL school buses have seatbelts installed.

I took fast-food bought lunch to my kindergartener's school for her lunch and was denied to allow her to have it because other children would be jealous! We as parents should be allowed to provide our children any lunch we buy or make.

I miss walking by all the interesting and funny artworks in the tunnel every day, and now the tunnel is dull with Graffiti Prohibited signs spaced on the walls; it's depressing. They stopped the graffiti because maybe two individuals chose to go political, but there's no need to punish the entire student body.

Get the Vlog Squad to OU

I want to save for my children’s education without investing in fossil fuels.

Do you believe students should have greater power in determining the course of the university, which would include fully funding the panther shuttle, pharmacy, and counseling center services? Administration is not carrying out the will of students.