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.

After being forced private student loans by The Art Institutes I have paid 40,000 dollars of a 50,000 dollars loan and still owe 42,000 dollars. Together with your help. It is time to eliminate private students loans and bring The Art Institute and National Collegiate Student Loan Trust (NCT) to justice. Like most of you reading this I wanted to better myself and attend college to learn a degree that could help me provide a better life for my family. However, when I started school at the Art Institute I was told by the Art Institute financial aid office that the government was not offering federal loans and that if I wanted to go to school I would have to take PRIVATE STUDENT LOANS. Wanting a better life I agreed. But, was not allowed to fully read the contract which was quickly taken from me after signing National Collegiate Student Loan Trust (NCT) provided this very special type of secret loan that even I was unable to see. I borrowed 50,000 dollars and in the last 10 years, I have paid over 40,000 dollars still owing 42,000 dollars. This seems fair, right? How does NCT fit into the scam of the Art Institute? Well, I believe it was due to the financial kickbacks that NCT provided The Art Institutes and we are talking about Billions.

I pray that there will never be another school shooting like the one we lived through in Parkland, Fla. Even just earlier this year, it never occurred to me that we’d be in a situation where we might have a secretary of education consider diverting resources that are used to support poor kids in order to flood schools with more guns. However, that’s exactly what we’re up against right now, since the news broke that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is considering a plan that would allow states to use federal funds to purchase guns for teachers. As the New York Times reported, such a move would reverse a long-standing position taken by the federal government that it should not pay to outfit schools with weapons. And it would also undermine efforts by Congress to restrict the use of federal funding for guns. As recently as March, Congress passed a school safety bill that allocated $50 million a year to local school districts but expressly prohibited the use of the money for firearms. The $1 billion student support program, part of the Every Student Succeeds Act, is intended for academic and enrichment opportunities in the country’s poorest schools, and it calls for school districts to use the money toward meeting three goals: providing a well-rounded education, improving school conditions for learning, and improving the use of technology for digital literacy. Instead of after-school programs or counselors, which are critical for creating safe and welcoming schools and addressing the mental health needs of kids, DeVos wants to turn schools into armed fortresses and make kids and educators less safe. Educators, students and parents have made clear that they don’t want more guns in schools; teachers want to teach and students want to learn. Rather than disregard the demands and needs of the people who know what our schools require, the Department of Education should use Title IV funding to: ● Provide a well-rounded education (examples include expanding AP courses and access to such courses, arts education, civics education, more college and career counseling, environmental education, expanding foreign language options, STEM, and social-emotional learning); ● Ensure safe and healthy students (including asthma management, bullying prevention, drug and violence prevention, indoor air quality, safe schools, mental health, and suicide prevention); and ● Provide effective use of technology. Arming teachers is a bad idea. We know that states with the strongest gun laws see less gun violence. And we know that educators, students and parents want a safe, welcoming place for students to learn, with adequate resources to make this a reality. Stand with the education community now. Send a message to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that this plan is reckless, dangerous, and will have long-lasting effects on our students and our schools.