This Friday, my alma mater Cornell Law School is hosting a conference for Dreamers — immigrant youth who came to this country as children — called “Dreamers and Beyond: Our Broken Immigration System.” The problem? Cornell has invited Mark Krikorian, executive director of the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) to speak. CIS is recognized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for many reasons, including the more than 2,000 times CIS has distributed white nationalist and Holocaust-denying content. CIS is also part of a shadowy anti-immigrant network of groups linked to white supremacist and pro-eugenicist beliefs. If you’ve seen what the Trump Administration is doing on immigration — deporting moms and dads while separating children from their families — these ideas come from CIS. Krikorian himself refers to immigrants as “illegal aliens” and once tried to school Sonia Sotomayor on how to say her own name. He’s said that “Haiti’s so screwed up because it wasn’t colonized long enough” and referred to Univision anchor Jorge Ramos as a “white-Hispanic ethnic hustler”. That Cornell would ask Krikorian to speak at a conference about the future of Dreamers is bizarre. That they extended a campus invitation to a known hate group leader is unacceptable. We don’t have much time before this conference. Please sign our petition and share with as many people as you can. Kica Matos Cornell Law School Class of ‘99

Nearly two decades of scientific research has shown that adolescent sleep patterns vary greatly from those of both adults and younger children. Yet in an effort to save money school districts all over the country have start times that are hazardous for adolescents' health. Evidence has shown that a lack of adequate sleep can put adolescents at risk for a host of physical and mental health issues. Organizations such as Start School Later have been advocating for later high school and middle school start times. As the parent of a high school student and a professor in a School of Education, I believe it is time for Region 19 to heed the evidence and start school later for the health and well-being of all teenagers.

This petition is being started to help students at ECU be the best and most comfortable while being on campus and in class. By having these dispensers in the academic buildings, it makes feminine products more available then just being handed out at one point on campus.

This Bill would be incredibly detrimental to our children and society as a whole, but especially to those who need our help the most, our disabled children (2 million kids). There would be no more IEP's, no more OT's or PT's in schools, no more special ed teachers, no more reading programs etc. They would be the first to go with this Bill. With Autism on the rise in epidemic proportions, we are now going to make it that there would be no more regulations/rights for these kids? As a person personally affected by this bill, as my son has Aspergers/ADHD- my son would NEVER be able to perform in school successfully without supports. But with supports, he gets A's and B's. Autistic kids are brilliant- they are usually the ones who create the most ingenious creations necessary for our society to grow, i.e. Silicon Valley. Do we really want to stop that innovation for some short-sightedness?

The Texas School Board of Education recently voted to eliminate historical figures Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from the required history curriculum.. In reality, it could be erasing contributions groundbreaking women have had in our nation. In addition to her many years of public service, Clinton was the first woman to be the nominee for President of a major political party. That is important history. And Hellen Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and was a pioneer in the disability rights movement. USA Today reports the Republican-dominated board's decision could affect over 5 million public school students. I hope others here with me in Texas and all concerned individuals from across the nation will sign and share this petition.

The TAMUK Presidential Search Committee will notify Chancellor John Sharp of 3-4 finalists on Thursday, September 13. There is no plan to bring the unranked finalists to campus to have them meet in Open Forums with faculty, students, and staff as happens at other state universities.

By taking away our devices you're causing an even bigger disservice to the study hall monitors and even other students in the room. Many kids rely on their phones to be able to listen to music because it allows them to focus better, especially when the entire room is talking. So why take away our phones?

We are the parents, neighbors, and residents in District 20 in Brooklyn that includes neighborhoods of Borough Park, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, and Fort Hamilton. We are very proud that District 20 public schools are one of the highest academic achievement school districts in New York City, despite the majority of our schools being drastically overcrowded. What our community needs is additional resources for our existing public schools and new traditional public schools that will provide the same good quality of education available currently in the district for our children to learn and grow. A charter school will not meet the needs we have in our district. We, the undersigned, together voice our opposition to the application by The Hellenic Classical Charter School – Dyker Heights in Brooklyn and urge its charter application be denied.

Ivy Tech facilities should provide a variety of spaces to encourage learning and participation in and out of the classroom and teaching lab. The TC building deserves a permanent, professional space devoted to the needs of the students.

Students who attend the Bryant Schools District should be able to dress freely at school. No one should decide whether or not they should get dress-coded at school or wear uncomfortable clothes. School faculty should not be putting duct tape or paper in students' clothes that their family paid for when some families can't afford new ones.

Because it is time that Student Loan victims have a real way to fairly pay off their loans without the constant illegal roadblocks that are put in the way to achieving freedom from these vampiric companies. Example: Borrowed $20,600 have paid back $32,800 and still owe over $50,000. There is no way to get these paid back as the servicing agency does not follow the rules and has no intention of assisting anyone get out of debt. The laws must be changed to force agencies like ECMC and Navient to really assist borrowers to pay their debt or their ability to have anything to do with these loans must be taken away from them and huge money penalties imposed that then go into a fund that will truly assist borrowers and future students.

We were just notified yesterday that D91 will be replacing D.A.R.E. with a program the school counselors will be implementing (we don't know the scope of the program but hope to learn more about it soon). We are saddened by this because no discussion was had with the D.A.R.E. board, the Bonneville Youth Development Council or anyone that has offered to continue this program at NO COST to the district. We still hope to have the conversation and hope to generate our community support to keep D.A.R.E. in the classroom. We also hope that from this petition, the district will see how strong we stand with the dare program.