My daughter is a current Pre-k student zoned for Burgess-Peterson Academy Elementary. Currently, only students 1-5 receive Spanish as a "special". Research has shown that the earlier the exposure to a language helps to improve cognitive abilities and overall language retention. Our children should be able to have access to this wealth of knowledge housed at BPA.

Sunset Park has the largest, working-class industrial waterfront in Brooklyn, but Industry City wants to turn it into a playground for the rich. Industry City wants to change current zoning to build large chain retail stores and luxury hotels, which may lead to luxury housing. We must protect long-time residents, workers, and small, locally-owned businesses from rising rents and displacement. This is our neighborhood. We should be deciding the future of our waterfront and neighborhood, not private developers like Industry City. Sunset Park tiene la costa de agua industrial más grande. La comunidad de Sunset Park cuenta con una población de personas mayormente de clase obrera y bajo ingreso en Brooklyn. Descaradamente los patrones de Industry City quieren destruir nuestra comunidad, y convertirlo en un patio de recreo para los ricos. Mediante el mecanismo de rezonificación ellos desean cambiar la zonificación actual para construir grandes cadenas de tiendas minoristas y hoteles de lujo, lo que puede llevar a viviendas de lujo. Debemos proteger a los residentes, trabajadores y pequeñas empresas de propiedad local desde hace mucho tiempo del aumento de alquileres y desplazamientos. Este es nuestro barrio. Deberíamos decidir el futuro de nuestra línea de costa y vecindario, no de desarrolladores privados como Industry City. Protect Sunset Park is a coalition of individuals and organizations representing residents, workers, students and small businesses. We are independent from outside groups. Join us and stay informed. Contact us: [email protected] --- Proteja a Sunset Park es una coalición de individuos y organizaciones que representan a residentes, trabajadores, estudiantes y pequeñas empresas. Somos independientes de grupos externos. Únete a nosotros y mantente informado. Contacte a nosotros: [email protected]

Our children, Abraham, Angel, and Kai, are 3 of the children with dyslexia who attend the Language-based Learning Disability Program at Graham and Parks school, which is about to be cut in half, removing 1 of 2 teachers. Children in this program need more resources. Eliminating this position will make it harder for students to receive the support they need to catch up to their peers and to be included with their peers as they prepare to go to the upper school. Eliminating this position will make it difficult for children who have yet to be identified who need this program to access these resources.

Rutgers has unfairly benefited from excessively issuing parking citations at the student's expense for too long. Rutgers rakes in $5 million annually from parking violations, which raises two questions: 1) Where is the money going? 2) Are students paying an unnecessary price? Hundreds of students have faced the burden of excessive parking citations. The minimum cost of a ticket has increased from $10 in 2008 to $25 today. As of last year, Rutgers stopped issuing physical tickets and employed an online system to view tickets. This system allows many more tickets to be issued at a time and often, several tickets are issued to the same vehicle within the same hour. To make matters especially worse, many students don’t receive any notification that they received a ticket until months later, after hundreds of dollars worth of fines and late fees have already accumulated. These financial holds impede class registration and graduation, and many students have been forced to drop out of school as they are left with overwhelming debt they cannot afford to pay. All of this could have been avoided had they received proper notification in the first place. Its time to make Rutgers parking system more fair and just, and end exploitative practices. We call on transportation heads to lower the cost of fines and limit the number of tickets that can be issued--and to improve the ticketing system, so that proper fine notifications are guaranteed. Rutgers already has a reputation for not caring about its students (especially commuters, who make up half the student population); it would be wise to take their concerns seriously.

Green Mountain College, “FIRST IN SUSTAINABILITY” has a well-deserved reputation as a leader in sustainability: https://www.greenmtn.edu/about/why-gmc/awards-accolades/ The entire campus is heated with a wood chip gasification technology to create steam that warms all the buildings. They can also use this steam to create their own electricity. It has a working farm complete with animals, greenhouse, and solar panels. The beauty of the campus, the student culture, and dedication to all the different aspects of sustainability would be a great loss for the town of Poultney and the region. It would also be a great loss to all the hardworking folks everywhere trying to save our planet. They also have some great masters degrees: Master of Science degree in Resilient & Sustainable Communities (MRSC) Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems

Hundreds of students are affected about not having a room for the upcoming school year and it's not fair for the students who have been here already. This is not right

As of lately, I have begun to notice that students who often complain of a bad sleep schedule have not been doing as well academically and to me, the correlation is clear between the two.

Beginning next school year, the Tussey Mountain School District Board of Education must decide whether or not to financially fund the position of SRO. Previously, the funding for our SRO has come from grants that have been applied for by the Saxton Borough; however, the grant funding through Saxton Borough will cease at the conclusion of this school year. Therefore, moving forward, this position must be funded by TMSD. The TMSB committee that will recommend whether or not to fund our district's SRO will hold two public meetings on Monday, April 22, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Members of the community will be given the opportunity to speak and express their concerns. Please sign our petition and attend one or both meetings to show your support in favor of hiring our SRO in order to maintain student safety as our number one priority.

CU's student body is overwhelmingly progressive, and Mark Kennedy's record proves that he will not represent our collective interests. Here at CU, we value inclusion and diversity. We support LGBTQ students and staff members. The University of Colorado is the crowning jewel of the state's university system, and we will not let it be spoiled by a man who has regressive and discriminatory values. Kennedy has not earned this prestigious position, and should not be trusted in overseeing our education. It is both absurd and upsetting that the regents have allowed him to make it this far in the selection process. Records do not lie: Mark Kennedy is categorically unfit to hold the office of the presidency.

This is to voice our concern with such an early start date to the school year!!!

I'm a teacher and am infuriated by the subsidies coming out of the school budget to fund vanity projects of the 1% through Tax Increment Financing program!

The girls at many schools around the country have been pressured to wear t-shirts and shorts past their knees in the hot summer days. I believe that we should be able to choose what we wear without fear of getting into trouble at school because it makes us feel good, and just because a girl wears “revealing clothing” doesn’t mean that they are instantly going to get raped or anything of that nature. Girls and guys should be able to at least wear tank tops and shorter shorts in the summer; it’s not like our shoulders and knees are instantly going to “distract the boys.” The dress codes make out women and girls to be sexual objects, and that showing a little bit of neck or shoulder would instantly make us sluts or worse. Stop slut-shaming girls for wearing what makes them feel good about themselves.