These budget cuts would drastically hinder the quality of our school system. The quality of education our children receive should be a priority for state officials.

As a high school student, it's not fair to let standardized tests determine my future, especially when tests are not designed for individuals with poor testing skills. Standardized testings should at least be reduced for students.

Dear Professor Harris, As you know, Halloween is October 31, the day directly before our last quiz is scheduled. As Seniors, it is very important to us to have the college experience of our last Halloween as college students. There will never be another time to have an event with such camaraderie and community spirit. If you move this quiz, you will go down as the coolest professor in the department. We thank you in advance, HPM Class of 2019

As a community with such a deep history, we do not see the purpose to take part of our identity from us for the benefit of a few. With many Alumni who still have a deep connection to Avalon High School, this change will only have a negative effect for the community, and Alumni are proud of the efforts this school does for the community and by doing such a drastic change you affect the community you chose to remove and distance yourself from. Together we are AVALON HIGH; together we are WILMINGTON.

Current LUSD Superintendent April Leiferman is very unfit to serve OUR community and OUR children at Lakeport Unified. Given the recent events with her and the board, the parents, students, and community are DEMANDING Mrs. Leiferman turn in her resignation immediately! It's time OUR children come before their personal vendettas! Between the mismanagement of school bonds, where millions extra were spent on a kitchen when the board promised tax payers a new, safe pool for our children, to over 50% of OUR dedicated career teachers just up and resigning due to April Leiferman and now April has WRONGLY fired a beloved Principal that OUR children NEED and WANT. Not only did the school board back April in the termination and false accusations, they ALL helped her potentially RUIN Mrs Paarsch's career in education. We need to remind Dennis Darling, Tom Powers, Lynn Andre, Lori Holmes and April Leiferman that they WORK FOR US! Vote Darling and Powers out November 6th and support our petition for April Leiferman's resignation NOW. #iStandWithRachel

The Cal Poly slaughterhouse kills cows, pigs, and chickens as a display for students to observe, desensitizing university students to the cruelty of animal slaughter. The public has voiced its concern repeatedly and wants to see the university shut down the slaughterhouse. Add your voice by signing the petition to Cal Poly President Armstrong today, asking him to remove the violent facility from the campus and spare thousands of animals from brutal deaths.

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.