I am a student at John J. Pershing. I am a 7th grader which is about to be separated from my Dual Language program. We had this program for 2 years and it is important to my classmates in 709 because it helps them learn English. This program should continue because it helps the students that don't know English learn English better. It also helps students that know English well to also learn Spanish.

We have 7-10 times more people in prison than countries in Europe and 60% of those in prison never graduated from high school. The benefits of mentoring are profound since there is compelling evidence that mentoring helps keep children in school, helps them avoid drugs, gangs, crime, prison, and welfare while earning substantially higher incomes. Six Princeton professors liked this idea, but we need the people in politics to pay attention.

Because what is happening isn’t right!

Language funding is always a target for budget cuts and it's rare that a school has a strong Japanese program. Ms. Cooper was the best Japanese teacher we've ever seen. She always brings a positive energy and truly cares about her students. She is rare in her field and everyone wants her to stay.

The demands on nurses and hospital staff have been terribly risky! The potential for harm, injury and even death to our patients is at all-time highs due to reductions in staff. The grids used are numbers based regardless of the acuity of our patients, resembling a factory assembly line! Health care is personal and individual, we need our time back to care for and heal our communities! Nurses and healthcare staff are burning out and leaving the profession, which is detrimental to us all now and in the future! Enact safe staffing ratios now!

Wards 7 and 8 residents deserve better than this. United Medical Center is the only Hospital East of River and removing any funds from the Hospital will lead to fatal outcomes for residents in Wards 7 and 8. The DC Council must act immediately to restore the $40 million to UMC to avoid removing access to healthcare for Ward 7 and 8 residents.

I believe that every school should have equal funding

I am starting this petition because although I was lucky enough to have a great education, it is extremely unfair that others cannot be as fortunate as I was. Education is an essential opportunity and each and every person should have the same privilege as I have. I plan to be a teacher and I want all of my students to have the opportunity and resources to be great.

This petition is to show the university that students eating on campus don't have healthy and diverse options to keep themselves healthy and satisfied. This needs to change as students are buying meal plans and aren't using them because they resort to going off campus for better food, which then causes a loss of money in meal-point since we can't get that money back.

Let’s Aim For Beyond 50 And Get As Many Signatures As We Can! Dr. McDougal has always exhibited care and concern for his students. We've seen this from his time as the director of the Black Unity Center where he often spent his own money to ensure that his students had fruitful experiences. He has conducted and published research on Black student success and engagement within the institution and is more than qualified to serve them along with faculty. By supporting the election of Dr. McDougal, you are supporting the right of faculty to proceed with electoral processes of the department. Dr. McDougal has a history of fairly and efficiently managing the department and now has the opportunity to rescue it from mismanagement.

The student body feels as if the current uniform policy does not allow us to properly express our true selves. The student body also believes that the current uniform policy is too constricting and does not allow students to have any freedom on their options. At the end of the day, teachers have to lose valuable classroom time in order to deal with uniform violations. The constant loss of time causes students to be distracted during the rest of the class. The change of uniform will make life much easier for students and teachers next year.

As a taxpayer of Hempstead, I am tired of paying high school taxes for a failing school district. The Hempstead School District has been failing its students for decades...a 37% graduation is malfeasance. This is due to fiscal mismanagement, and lack of accountability. Let's stop this cycle of failure. Our children deserve better!