This change would effectively destroy the Centralia Music program in a matter of years. Making it an after-school program will greatly limit how many kids are able to join, and having it only 2 times per week is not enough time to enforce the teaching necessary to help students thrive. Davalos’ plan includes band choir and strings after school. Students would be bused to two locations in the district. No ensembles during the school day.

Westfield students need time to go and have fun as well as to go and do exercise other than just the weight room.

We all know what a Dome is and it is a cruel injustice that the University of Idaho has named its indoor sports arena/complex after such a shape when it is so clearly not a 'dome'. Really, it looks more like a tipped over tin can. Architecturally speaking it would make much more sense for the enclosure to be called the "Kibbie Vault" due to the series of vaults holding up the roof, or even the "Kibbie Quonset Hut". SIgn this petition to end the confusion this cruel misnomer has caused.

We are on the FIGHT for students to have the RIGHT to express themselves with clothing. For the remainder of the year, each Friday we should have the RIGHT to Free Dress Friday's. Join Our Fight For The Right To Free Dress.

Even if people are against any form of homosexuality, they shouldn't be able to ignore a large part of society. They don't have to agree with it, but they should be informed.

I'm starting this petition because I feel that is it unfair to get tested on something that some people can't do.

I think a slushie machine should be added to Cleveland State University's Campus. Slushies are a popular drink for my generation. Going to Cleveland for school makes it hard to get these drinks we all love. We have to leave the safety of our campus and travel outside into the scary city world. If a machine was added on campus it could make money for the university and keep the students safe.

I am a junior at Northside High school and every day I see friends and teachers tired and stressed. Not to mention funds for JROTC store and other clubs are low. My suggestion for four-day school weeks will fix that.

Yes, I am personally affected by this. I am a biracial Black and white first-generation, low income, student of color. I am white and am granted white privilege and experience the emotional and internal effects of the problems mentioned. As a person of privilege, I experience the "better" end of this emotional turmoil, so take time to imagine how my visibly students-of-color peers feel.

I’m an elementary educator in Massachusetts public schools, retiring in June after 22 years of teaching. I’m also a mom. I know too well, from all angles, the painful impact of Massachusetts’ inability to fully fund our schools. Here are a few snapshots: when I started teaching first grade in 1997, I had 14 students and a full time bilingual aide. Twelve years later, I had 26 students and no aide. Among those 26 students, I had more English language learners (many of them newcomers to English), more students with learning disabilities, and more students suffering from childhood trauma. I am currently a Title 1 Math teacher, but even teaching eight groups a day, I can only serve half the grades in my school. My school needs two of me. My math intervention is extremely effective in getting children up to grade level so they will not need an IEP, but I can only provide services in first, second and third grade because there’s only one of me. There is an urgent public education funding crisis facing Massachusetts. That’s why I’m rallying with students, family members, community members, educators, principals, school staff, and local elected officials, on the streets and at the State House next week to urge passage of the PROMISE Act, which will increase state education aid by $1 billion per year for preK-12 public schools. I will be taking a personal day on Friday, March 22 and making a five hour bus trip to Boston and back to testify before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education to seize this generational opportunity to fully fund our schools. Please join me in demanding action from our lawmakers for fair and equitable public education for every student in the Commonwealth. Back in 2015, the bipartisan Massachusetts Foundation Budget Review Commission found that the Commonwealth’s public school funding formula is woefully outdated and that state spending is way too low. Remember, the formula for education spending hasn’t been updated since 1993! This has created crises at the local level with cities and towns and our schools having to make drastic cuts, all of which harm our children’s education. It’s time to say ENOUGH! The Promise Act, filed by Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz (D-Boston) and by Reps. Aaron Vega (D-Holyoke) and Mary Keefe (D-Worcester), would over a period of time implement the five core recommendations of the Commission. The bulk of the additional funds would go to districts with the greatest need and fewest resources. The formula would be changed to: **Realistically account for districts’ health care costs. **Provide adequate support for English learners and low income students. **Account for special education costs. **Mitigate losses to charter schools. The bill is also structured to ensure that **every district** benefits during the phase-in of reforms and that no one type of reform is front-loaded or back-loaded. And, of course we also have to account for the unique and pressing needs of rural schools like regional transportation and declining enrollment, an effort that gained ground last year, but must go much further this session. We live in precarious times. An educated, creative, hard-working and compassionate citizenry is the best hope for our future. If we shortchange our schools, we weaken our democracy and jeopardize our future. It’s time to fund our future now. Please—for all our children—call for this major reinvestment in public education to happen in time for local communities to include the funding in the next academic year’s budget. We can begin to repair the persistent education inequity that often exists between students in one community and those in the city or town right next door.

It is for Challenge Class. You also shouldn't call people names that they don't like. You should stand up for yourself and others or the hate will go on.

News that super wealthy families have bought their way into colleges across the country shouldn’t come as a shock—we all know the system is rigged. But what is shocking is that there are still perfectly legal ways to stack the deck against communities of color and white working-class students. The legacy system, where getting into a college is weighted toward studies whose families had the privilege to attend, is still considered a legitimate way to get into college. There are many ways to make college more fair and accessible, and as we work on those solutions to our education crisis that keeps the benefits of higher education out of reach of so many, we must dismantle the legacy admission system.