Fear is being recklessly stirred up among children across America in this tough election year. Our children are listening to the toxic and hateful rhetoric used by adults. The negativity spills over onto the playground and into the lunchroom. In too many cases, the language that adults use causes young people to worry and fear for their futures, especially children of minority ethnic and faith backgrounds. We can put an end to it by building a movement to welcome diversity. Not one more Latino child will hear, "Build the wall!" chanted at them at their basketball game. Not one more gender-nonconforming student will fear going to the bathroom. Not one more Muslim child will be tormented or taunted while walking to school. It starts with our school leaders – school boards and superintendents – across America taking charge and giving children the opportunity to be kind and inclusive. Programs like Know Your Classmates and No One Eats Alone teach students to challenge their own assumptions, find common ground, and learn empathy and tolerance. And before long, student leaders take charge and teach each other to make school more inclusive. Let’s build a movement in our schools!

After more than four months of contract negotiations between UC-AFT Librarians and the University administration over the two open articles Salary, and Professional Activities and Development, the librarians are still waiting for a meaningful response to the union’s proposals. While UC Librarians make up to 27% LESS than their counterparts at CSU campuses, the UC offered a mere 1% salary increase. When UC librarians are increasingly being encouraged to demonstrate national prominence in their fields, the UC has offered no changes to Professional Development funding. UC-AFT’s core demands include: *Competitiveness: Librarians need salaries that are competitive with our colleagues in the California Community Colleges and California State University. *Consistency: A minimum level of professional development funding for all librarians across the UC system. *Compression: Librarian salary compression must be addressed by extending the scale. 21st century scholarship means students and faculty need more and better services from professional librarians, but librarians are being asked to do more and more for less and less. In order for the UC to recruit and retain professional librarians, the UC needs to provide competitive salaries and professional development funding. This is why we, the undersigned UCLA campus and community members, call on you to support UC-AFT librarians in achieving a fair contract!

After more than four months of contract negotiations between UC-AFT Librarians and the University administration over the two open articles Salary, and Professional Activities and Development, the librarians are still waiting for a meaningful response to the union’s proposals. While UC Librarians make up to 27% LESS than their counterparts at CSU campuses, the UC offered a mere 1% salary increase. When UC librarians are increasingly being encouraged to demonstrate national prominence in their fields, the UC has offered no changes to Professional Development funding. UC-AFT’s core demands include: *Competitiveness: Librarians need salaries that are competitive with our colleagues in the California Community Colleges and California State University. *Consistency: A minimum level of professional development funding for all librarians across the UC system. *Compression: Librarian salary compression must be addressed by extending the scale. 21st century scholarship means students and faculty need more and better services from professional librarians, but librarians are being asked to do more and more for less and less. In order for the UC to recruit and retain professional librarians, the UC needs to provide competitive salaries and professional development funding. This is why we, the undersigned UCR campus and community members, call on you to support UC-AFT librarians in achieving a fair contract!

After more than four months of contract negotiations between UC-AFT Librarians and the University administration over the two open articles Salary, and Professional Activities and Development, the librarians are still waiting for a meaningful response to the union’s proposals. While UC Librarians make up to 27% LESS than their counterparts at CSU campuses, the UC offered a mere 1% salary increase. When UC librarians are increasingly being encouraged to demonstrate national prominence in their fields, the UC has offered no changes to Professional Development funding. UC-AFT’s core demands include: *Competitiveness: Librarians need salaries that are competitive with our colleagues in the California Community Colleges and California State University. *Consistency: A minimum level of professional development funding for all librarians across the UC system. *Compression: Librarian salary compression must be addressed by extending the scale. 21st century scholarship means students and faculty need more and better services from professional librarians, but librarians are being asked to do more and more for less and less. In order for the UC to recruit and retain professional librarians, the UC needs to provide competitive salaries and professional development funding. This is why we, the undersigned UCSD campus and community members, call on you to support UC-AFT librarians in achieving a fair contract!

After more than four months of contract negotiations between UC-AFT Librarians and the University administration over the two open articles Salary, and Professional Activities and Development, the librarians are still waiting for a meaningful response to the union’s proposals. While UC Librarians make up to 27% LESS than their counterparts at CSU campuses, the UC offered a mere 1% salary increase. When UC librarians are increasingly being encouraged to demonstrate national prominence in their fields, the UC has offered no changes to Professional Development funding. UC-AFT’s core demands include: *Competitiveness: Librarians need salaries that are competitive with our colleagues in the California Community Colleges and California State University. *Consistency: A minimum level of professional development funding for all librarians across the UC system. *Compression: Librarian salary compression must be addressed by extending the scale. 21st-century scholarship means students and faculty need more and better services from professional librarians, but librarians are being asked to do more and more for less and less. In order for the UC to recruit and retain professional librarians, the UC needs to provide competitive salaries and professional development funding. This is why we, the undersigned UCB campus and community members, call on you to support UC-AFT librarians in achieving a fair contract!

A teachers' strike will put the safety and progress of the Chicago Public Schools students at risk. Let us fight for a fair contract agreement for teachers & students! Chicago Public Schools (773) 553-1000 Chicago Teachers Union (312) 329-9100

Children need our voice. Way too often, when families return to visit our preschool program they are baffled at limited time for play in their current Kindergarten and/or higher grade(s). I am baffled but know together we can stand up for children. Children need to play. It's time that in our country we stand for the rights of children and childhood. We are asking for you to make a promise to ensure children's right to play and developmentally appropriate practice is upheld in schools.

In August the BOE gave Dr. G an evaluation of average/satisfactory across all metrics measured. Average performance does not constitute firing the Superintendent. She has been Superintendent for one year; one year of working in the District after much turmoil where there is a historical lack of parental and community investment, a population of extreme poverty, and a long history of micromanagement by the previous BOE where all but two were voted out. It is absurd to think that anyone could control all of those factors and magically turn that history around in one year. Firing Dr. G is not only unwarranted, it is irresponsible. The students and teachers need continuity of strong leadership by both the Superintendent and the BOE. Such a change after a short time at the District would put the District on the wrong path. Over the last year, Dr. G has built an excellent executive team and has shown vision and leadership in developing the reading initiative, coordinating many partners and all schools onto the same reading program and focusing all partners onto a common means to a common goal. All of this while a lot of politics from the Mayor regarding the City’s support and many people still at the District who were and are part of the problem in causing such poor performance and a State takeover. In the last 6 years, State legislators have been harmful to the future of education in Alabama by enacting laws that have nothing to do with what is known in education policy or supporting schools and everything to do with naming and penalizing poor performing schools through the Accountability Act, the A-F school grading system and charter school law. None of these aforementioned items are under the control of Dr. G. Stand up and support Dr. G. I know the Board of Education can get back on the right path; they have shown good leadership over the past year. The BOE is not perfect and not all problems are solved. But that doesn’t mean that I advocate for them to all be voted out. The BOE meets Sept 22nd at 5:30.

Many of us teachers, myself included, intended to vote "yes" on a strike authorization this September. Many of us are disheartened by what we perceive to be the union pressuring us to vote in accordance with their political aims. Unions should by their very nature be democratic, and their methodology leaves a bad taste in our mouths.

I'm starting this Petition because I think that art should not be a mandatory high school graduation requirement. This issue is currently affecting me now.

1100 students. 2 bathrooms. 6 stalls in each bathroom. That means that about 100 students will use each stall every day. The result: bathrooms unusable with sinks that often break down. These bathrooms are on the first floor of a three-story building. Although there are bathrooms throughout the entire school, students are forbidden from using them. Please help convince Ms. Lenore Berner, the principal of MS 51, to allow the students to use more than one bathroom per gender.

As parents, students, teachers and members of the community we are alarmed to learn that a supposedly "final" decision to radically change the Wenatchee High School schedule was undertaken behind closed doors and with zero input from parents and students. This is more than a "schedule change." It is a decision to condense year-long classes into one semester, resulting in 37 fewer instructional hours per class. It's a decision to create potential gaps of 8-12 months between classes in subjects like math and foreign language. It's a decision to disrupt and possibly threaten the viability of year-long programs like Band, Mariachi, AVID, Choir, Orchestra, DECA, Sports Medicine and The Apple Leaf. A decision of this magnitude should not be undertaken by a committee of only teachers and administrators. Such a significant change in the delivery and content of curriculum should instead be implemented only after careful planning and the recommended 1-2 years of staff and curriculum development. The Wenatchee High School should convene a new, well-rounded committee that will represent a broad range of students, parents and teachers and engage in a transparent process to arrive at a solution that is best for our high school.