My name is Alicia Said and my family and I have been a part of the Hidden Valley School community for over 10 years. I am writing today to ask the School board to please reconsider the transfer of Debbie Rogan (Roach) from our school community. For those of you who may not know Mrs. Debbie Rogan, she was the “Child Care Lead” at the Hidden Valley Satellite campus that was recently destroyed by the fires. Debbie has been working at Hidden Valley Satellite School serving our children and community for 25 years. Debbie Rogan has been given a notice of 10 days prior to her transfer. If this passes, Debbie will not be back after the 2017 “Thanksgiving Holiday” break. Our kids will be hit yet again with another tragic loss, a loss that can be avoided. It has now been 5 weeks since the tragedy of the recent fires. These fires left our community in state of disarray, loss and emotional instability, not only for our community and school but for our children. The Satellite campus kids have not only lost their homes, but their school and if this decision passes Debbie Rogan as well. Our school has been hit the hardest during these fires and losing one or any of our daycare providers is an act of cruelty and insensitivity by the district. Debbie Rogan is a familiar face, a symbol of love, safety and continuity. As a parent, Debbie has been an ally for my kids, a means of emotional support and friend. Our daycare providers are a huge part of our kid’s emotional recovery as they begin to process the gravity and magnitude of the fires. To remove Debbie Rogan or any of our daycare providers would be another tragic loss for our kids, our school and our community as a whole. If you agree, please join me by signing this petition against the transfer of Debbie Rogan, Child Care Lead at Hidden Valley Elementary School.

I taught 12 4-credit courses last year at Portland Community College and served on two committees. Full-time faculty teach 9 courses per year, so I worked 1.33 FTE, but because I am classified as an adjunct instructor I earned about $30,000 instead of about $60,000. Although my position would qualify towards student loan forgiveness, it does not because I am not classified as a full-time employee. Make equal pay for equal work the standard in higher eduction. I and other hard-working educators like me appreciate your support so we don't have to get our groceries at the food bank. Certain matters like this one should not be left to unions to negotiate but should be guaranteed by law, just as minimum wage is.

I am starting this petition because school kills and i have heard of many instances where people have killed themselves from stress. This is bad and this petition will help millions

For many Americans, the American dream includes many years of graduate school and extremely frugal living along the journey to a Ph.D. Traditionally, in a great many fields (such as biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics), the only way this has been possible is through teaching and/or research assistantships, which grant graduate students with a small stipend (in the ~$20K-$30K/year range) to live. This Republican move will almost certainly guarantee that middle and lower class highly talented and intelligent people will be locked out of higher education.

Join EMU faculty and lecturers to tell our Board of Regents: Hit the pause button on a secretive, multimillion dollar deal with an out-of-state firm called Academic Partnerships. Faculty and the EMU community should conduct an open, public review of this agreement to sell EMU branded degrees entirely online, with no in-person instruction. All EMU programs, online or in-person, must be consistent with our mission to provide a diverse student body with a high-quality, affordable education. From what we know so far – which isn’t much, because EMU isn’t saying much about this new program – we’re concerned that the online degrees offered by Academic Partnerships will not meet EMU’s standards. Students in these degree programs may never interact with EMU professors. In fact, there may not actually be professors for these courses. The actual work of teaching – online discussion, tutoring, grading – will likely be done by online “coaches.” The “coaches” who will teach EMU students don’t work for EMU. They won’t even work for Academic Partnerships. They will be hired by another out-of-state firm called Instructional Connections – which pays them extremely low wages. EMU and Academic Partnerships are already marketing and delivering a completely online Nursing degree. More programs, including entirely online Bachelor’s degrees, are set to launch in January. For these online degrees, Academic Partnerships will walk away with 50% of EMU tuition and fees. It’s time to hit the pause button and send this secretive deal back to the EMU faculty for a thorough review. Online instruction has a place in higher education. But it should never totally replace the world-class teaching and scholarship that takes place on our campus. EMU-AAUP and EMUFT

On October 23rd, 2017, the District 39 Board of Education unanimously voted on a formal statement of recommendation to the District 39 administration that "it should no longer be the practice of the district that grades for extra-curricular activities, including band, be a part of school report cards." In this statement and subsequent discussion that followed the vote, the Board has expressed a desire to alter the instrumental music program and remove its successful curricular structures, assessments, and overall accountability. We ask that before the board take any further action, they provide research to support their position. To view the board's statement and discussion, go to 2:35:00 at this address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrlwvjRDkig&feature=youtu.be.To see just a sampling of research that a quality band and orchestra program is beneficial, go to this address: https://evancanel.wixsite.com/musicadvocate

The Fort Worth Young Men's Leadership Academy (YMLA) has established an exceptional record of high academic performance. These young men continue to make the grade. Also, YMLA is a 5A school with a successful athletic program. Yet, the FWISD Long Range Master Facilities Plan requires them to share the athletic facility belonging to another school. This would leave YMLA scholars with less than what they currently have, which is very little. YMLA wants to maintain its distinct identity as well. Funds for a long overdue, new school have been allocated in the 2017 Penny Swap/Bond Proposal. Please sign our petition if you agree that the scholars of YMLA deserve, and should be built, a full and complete school or renovate its current campus to include adequate facilities to support a full athletic program in addition to classrooms, labs, music and art departments.

Every student at Mohonasen has complained about school lunches or not being able to leave during a study hall. With an open campus, we would be able to go to a local chain of fast food or even go home until we had our next class.

No Homework for Students! Students get enough Classwork as it is, so there's no need for extra "work." Also, teachers give us Homework to recap their lessons and to see if you need more help on it. Yes, that's great but that's why we get classwork!!! Students want more free time but they can't get it because of Homework. See what I mean!?.

Many of us use the grad lounge exclusively so that we can have meetings, study, and discuss world issues with our peers in the Masters level programs. It is our goal to have our only dedicated room given back to us or an immediate replacement given.

Our special needs children cannot speak, cannot defend themselves. They need someone to advocate while in class away from parents! We need to help our children communicate what is going on with them. Have you ever sent your child helpless and defenseless to school, not know what is going on or what is happening? Then when you get a phone call and don't know what is going on, you only hear the teacher's side. What about our children? What about their side? Help me get cameras in our special needs classrooms.

The University of New Haven (CT) has set up a BA program for the King Fahd Security College (KFSC) in Riyadh. Experts from UNH’s Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences will advise their counterparts at KFSC and will specialize in “criminal justice, homeland security and intelligence studies”. The University of New Haven should immediately terminate this program. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is a serial human rights violator and is committing the war crime of aggression against neighboring Yemen. No university should offer the government of the KSA any security assistance especially in those specialties which help it commit grave violations to persons’ basic rights and well-being. The kingdom considers “criminal” a whole host of acts that are protected by rights to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, rights to peacefully assemble and protest, and rights to practice religion. The kingdom is an absolute monarchy and does not respect any of those rights. For example, the KSA levies severe punishment up to execution for the alleged crimes of “witchcraft”, “apostasy”, and “homosexual” acts. These are crimes only in the imagination of extreme bigots. UNH is specifically creating a curriculum at KFSC specializing in “homeland security”. With a regime that sees all dissent as illegitimate UNH staff will unavoidably be helping the regime stamp out movements for democracy. The advanced techniques developed at UNH will be used to track down people who peacefully protest abuses of government or simply discuss these matters. For example, it will be helping the Saudi police find bloggers like Raif Badawi who is in prison for ten years with an additional sentence of 1,000 lashes despite winning Europe’s Sakharov Prize for his commitment to freedom. As is well known there’s no freedom of religion in Saudi Arabia. Won’t UNH curriculum and skills be used by the kingdom’s rulers in its notorious persecution of its Shia citizens? How will UNH make sure its skills taught to Saudi police won’t be used to track down women involved in such legal “offenses” such as driving cars, violating guardian laws, and not wearing an abaya? The answer is it can’t. The KSA “justice system” often resorts to punishments like whipping, beheading, and crucifixion. It is unconscionable for UNH staff to help KSA security personnel more efficiently arrest those who will eventually suffer such cruel punishments. Finally, Saudi Arabia is involved in a brutal, unprovoked war against forces in neighboring Yemen. Over ten thousand civilians are dead. The wreck of water and sewage systems has resulted in the plague of cholera with over 400,000 cases as of July 2017. UNH must not give any security assistance to a government involved in such a war crime.