Teachers have massive responsibilities with crowded classrooms and low student funding in the state of Arizona. Teachers have to continue their education in order to renew their teaching certifications. Teachers are dealing with every aspect of a child’s life including emotional and social, as well as educating. Reward our teachers with a decent salary for their continued dedication to our most valuable resource, our children!

I am starting this petition as a student who is genuinely scared to go to school every day. With the regular school shootings that occur in the United States, I feel as though schools should be doing everything in their power to protect their students, starting with a separate resource officer for the high school.

The courageous students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are inspiring our nation with their determination to end senseless and preventable gun violence in the U.S. These students are survivors of the 17th shooting on a U.S. school campus in the first 43 days of 2018. They are demanding the immediate passage of commonsense gun safety laws—and are fearlessly calling out all lawmakers who answer their rightful demands with hollow promises. These students will not be silenced by a mounting right-wing media attack campaign to smear them personally and spread lies about their efforts. They are rejecting false solutions offered by Trump and lawmakers, such as a recent Trump suggestion to arm educators in schools. The Parkland students are standing strong, at the center of a powerful, emergent movement that's applying necessary and strategic pressure on Congress and Donald Trump. They are fighting for their safety. Our safety. Let's make sure they and federal lawmakers know that Americans across the country are standing shoulder to shoulder with the students, promising as they are to not yield until our schools and communities are safe from gun violence. Together, We say: YES to commonsense gun laws. And NO to the NRA and cowardly inaction by federal lawmakers. We say: Parkland students, we are with you, now and always!

SAVE Our Tuition Reimbursement The evolving landscape of higher education has changed the way working-students obtain degrees and certifications. “Non-traditional” students have a diversity of methods to pursue their continued education while working and contributing to the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) system. It’s time for UNMH to catch up and cherish their employees seeking to further their education while working to serve the community they hold so dear. The University of New Mexico Hospital is an academic institution that aspires to Magnet Status; which is a designation indicating that they are “Nurse Friendly”. • UNMH recruits health care professionals by touting its great benefits, one of which is tuition reimbursement allowing employees to obtain higher degrees and National specialty licensure • UNMH recently decided to dramatically reduce reimbursement rates for clinical staff taking on-line classes and combined programs by almost 50% • The Hospital made this decision unilaterally without informing staff, seeking to understand the impact this would have on current employees, or having discussions with any of the key stakeholders! • Changing this policy in haste may jeopardize educational opportunities staff are currently pursuing or would otherwise be able to pursue in the future and may de-incentivize potential employees from applying to UNMH UNMH has always relied on the labels used on the UNM Bursar’s Office published tuition and fee schedule to reimburse courses taken outside the giant UNM university system, the same methodology was applied to courses in question. UNM now has a separate section on its tuition and fee schedule for a unique set of new online programs. For UNMH employees, all courses labeled as "online" were reimbursed based on the tuition and fee schedule specifically used for this select few UNM online programs, without consideration for the varied education programs working-students participate in. Get informed..........Sign a petition...........Speak out........ Phone: 505-884-7713 Website: www.nmhospitalworkersunion.com Email: [email protected] Facebook group: “Save our Tuition Reimbursement”

The contract requests a 2% guaranteed annual raise and an additional 1% raise contingent on his annual review rating of highly effective. The Board repeatedly has found him highly effective, but it is unclear how his effectiveness is determined in any measurable fact other than the Board's opinion. Our District needs to consider the limited resources to provide for such raises to administrative positions and the best interest of our children from ineffective leadership. The Board continues to find him highly effective, but my experience has been less than favorable.

I am a high school student a junior, that fears the debt that will cripple my chances for being mobile in the economy for the future

College students have their first experience living in a completely new environment; it should not be exploited. NXNW does not care for individuals; instead, it cares for how they can take their money.

Join Joe Mackey in demanding that the State of Indiana stop diverting public school funds away from public schools. Not 1 dollar should go to unregulated, privileged private schools in Indiana! The state government continues to divert funding away from our local school systems and we can be a voice of change here! - Authorized by Joe Mackey for Congress

As a community member and voter in NYS, I am contacting you to request a foundation aid adjustment. State aid to Syracuse City School District (SCSD) students has not met their needs. SCSD students, among the poorest in the nation, live with 1/3 the average annual income of other NYS residents, and enrollment in the district is growing and projected to continue to rise by 2.7% next school year- yet our state funding does not reflect these factors. The foundation aid formula is well designed and should be running to fund all NYS students equitably. Please address the poverty and program needs of these 21,000+ students so they can be adequately supported as they aim to graduate ready for college and careers. I request that you, provide at least an additional $12 million in state aid, freeze charter school growth that takes much needed money from public education, do not approve a 2% cap, continue funding community schools, increase and expand mental health services for students, and expand CTE funding to include ninth grade students.

Scores on End-of-Course tests would improve if these tests were administered before the Christmas break. 2-3 weeks without instruction results in lower scores. Our schools are graded on these grades. We are now ranked 40th in the country. That's not acceptable.

The superintendent's short-sighted decisions regarding destroying a special education schools location and giving it to richer gifted students show his utter lack of respect for the students, parents, and community as a whole. We ask that all stand against this inequitable decision and support the unsupported students that can’t speak for themselves.

Dear Bridgeport City Council Members: We, the parents, administration, teachers, staff, and supporters of Classical Studies Magnet Academy (CSMA), are asking for you to put the issue of the City of Bridgeport supporting the Board of Education & Bridgeport Public School District acquiring a new building for CSMA to be joined in one physical location on your agenda. We specifically request that you vote “YES” to the Board of Education applying for a grant to comprehensively assess the renovation needs of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport administrative building at 238 Jewett Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06606 and “YES” to the investing $1.2 million for the purchase of 238 Jewett Avenue for CSMA. CSMA is a PK-8 magnet school that is currently split between two buildings: Main Building, 240 Linwood Avenue, housing grades 3-8 & Annex Building, 659 Beechwood Avenue, housing grades PK-2. The Main Building is owned by the Board of Education, and the Annex is leased from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport. The school’s academic theme is project-based education that incorporates Socratic Seminar. Quoted from Principal Helen Giles’ School Message, “[The educational approach promotes] active learning wherein students are the knowledge seekers. They have opportunities to engage in rich discourse regarding topics they are learning about. [CSMA] provides an education based on high expectations for all children, striving to provide a world-class education while cultivating and nurturing world-class citizens.” Our ultimate goal is to support and raise the academic achievement of our children, and this in part requires a suitable physical learning environment. It was approved for CSMA to expand into two buildings in 2013 when it received approval by the Board of Education to increase its student body from grades K-6 to PK-8. The division of students and staff between two buildings, separated by .5 miles and 4 streets, was originally intended to be a temporary situation. However, approaching 5 years later, the City has not outlined any concrete steps to unify the school into one building. CSMA needs to be one building, together as one unified school. It is currently the only school in Bridgeport suffering from the challenges of a physically separated administration, educational team, and student body. Parents are strained by having to drop off and pick up siblings in multiple locations and sometimes having to choose between attending events for one child over another since school assemblies must to held on different days between the two buildings. In addition to being in one building, CSMA needs to be in a newer, more updated facility. The Main building at 240 Linwood Avenue, the former Maplewood School, is the oldest building presently in operation by the Bridgeport Public Schools. The age of the building contributes to the poor temperature regulation and ventilation, insufficient space for certain classes and activities. The Annex building at 659 Beechwood Avenue also has structural challenges, with ceiling leaks, cracked wall tiles, and poorly sealed windows. The building cannot accommodate a proper library, and there is no real gymnasium. 238 Jewett Avenue is the only realistic and reasonable option for the relocation and unification of CSMA: 238 Jewett Avenue has adequate space for the entire current student population, with room to expand. This administrative building was formerly Notre Dame High School and St. Catherine School for Girls, therefore the property is already zoned for a school. The building is large enough to satisfactorily accommodate space for academic, social/emotional, and health/wellness support services, as well as for enrichment classes such as library, physical education, music, and art. It will also provide space for parent meetings and engagements. The grounds surrounding the building are spacious enough to build playgrounds and to use for other recreational activities. CSMA is a project-based magnet school that holds multiple exhibits, and assemblies each month. Adequate space is necessary for students to endeavor into their educational exploration and to set up their projects/presentations for fellow students, parents, and invited guests. Renovations in the 238 Jewett Avenue building will allow for needed technology updates that the current 659 Beechwood Avenue & 240 Linwood Avenue buildings cannot support. This need also holds true for general assemblies school-wide events, where crowding easily becomes a complication. The location of the building is sufficiently distanced from other local schools, and it will not disrupt the local school zone distribution. As a magnet school that receives students from all over the city and has the specific theme of being project-based, parents must consciously select for their children to attend and commit be actively engaged in ensuring their children keep up with the rigors of the curriculum. Relocating CSMA to an area that is too close to other local schools or transferring the school to an already-occupied school building that would displace students from their current zoned school will have potentially negative lasting effects on the community. Students may then need to be bussed to the next closest school or conversation may arise to change CSMA from a fully lottery-based magnet school to a partially zoned-magnet composite school. The latter would not be fair to parents or students to attend a school with a special zone-based because some local parents may not wish their children to attend, or may not be able to keep up with the academic demands. As a magnet school receiving students from the entire city, the majority of students are bussed. There is sufficient space on the grounds of the 238 Jewett Avenue property for the school buses to load and unload students off of the public street. Presently traffic becomes obstructed at both locations as 5 school buses wait in line. There is also pa...