MARIA PEREIRA MUST GO was created by myself, with the support of Bridgeport Public Schools Parent and Community Leaders because of MARIA PEREIRA continuous belligerent behavior directed towards collegeaues, PARENTS, BOE member's and ANYONE not in agreement with her bullying tactics She is in violation of the Robert rules of laws in her disruptive behaviors that consists of shouting, name calling, intimidation and unprofessional language. Her HISTORY of violence, criminal record and threats of lawsuits towards the Mayor and ANYONE that doesn't AGREE with her has the 21000 CHILDREN of Bridgeport held hostage. Her history of voting to endanger the welfare of Bridgeport Students and Community makes her unfit to be a BOE member any longer. She has voted to remove imperative staffing, paraprofessional from overcrowded classrooms, school police SRO. She voted to have children walk as young as kindergarten outside of the STATE of CT Guidelines. Her inability to work civilly with the current BOE members has caused a BOYCOTTING. MARIA PEREIRA MUST GO PERIOD! NO OTHER OPTIONS are Warranted! We the PARENTS and Children of Bridgeport Public Schools want HER RESIGNATION!

The recent cuts to higher education have been devastating — valued faculty are leaving, and Illinois students are going to schools in other states. Meanwhile, young people and their families are being crushed by the high cost of college, even at our public institutions. A bold investment in free tuition would lift the burden of debt off the next generation and provide stable funding and a wave of enthusiasm for our public universities and community colleges.

We need to be freed from the high interest rates that the loans have submerged us in...Only to not be able to find jobs OR a livable wage.

In the 1990s, I helped organize my fellow teaching assistants at the University of California, Berkeley. At the time, we were facing huge workloads, low pay and insecure health care. It took several years but with support from the UAW we ended up getting university administrators to negotiate with us and created a better workplace as a result. Flash forward to today and tens of thousands of research assistants (RAs) and teaching assistants (TAs) are still facing the same things we were when I was at Berkeley. Many are paid so little they have to work additional jobs and rely on loans to make ends meet. The good news is they’re organizing and a recent National Labor Relations Board decision restored the rights of research and teaching assistants at private universities to come together in union and negotiate collectively. But administrators at Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and other prestigious private universities are doing everything they can to stop RAs and TAs from organizing. They submitted legal arguments against the right of RAs and TAs to form a union and, when they lost, set up anti-union websites to get RAs and TAs to vote against forming a union. This anti-union campaign is just another example of the greed we’re seeing at universities across the country. As tuition continues to skyrocket for students, administrators have raised their own salaries dramatically while shifting most of the critical teaching and research work to lower-paid, temporary workers, like TAs, RAs, adjuncts and postdocs. Sign the petition now to tell administrators at Columbia, Harvard, the New School and other prestigious private universities to stop with their anti-union campaign and allow research and teaching assistants to come together in union to create a better workplace.

Our children will be harmed if this lawsuit wins because it will downgrade the quality of their education, lead to overcrowded classrooms with fewer resources, contribute to an elitist educational system where only the wealthy will get a great education, and will devalue our homes.

I am starting this petition in order to prevent Wood County schools from taking the kids summer vacation away from them. They have already cut a month off their summer break and I feel the kids need to be able to enjoy their time off in order to be ready to start school and be ready to learn at the beginning of the next school year. I have been affected because I have 3 children who can't understand why they have to go back to school so early when they have relatives and friends that live in other school systems who don't have to start back until the end of August or after Labor Day.

Transportation for ALL school aged Children and their Safety to and from school in streets filled with gun violence and gang activities

This is about those taking out student loans again being disadvantaged for taking out loans to further one's education. If one's monthly payment plan under an Income base repayment plan is $350, one's payment shouldn't be $2000 for the calculation of one's DTI for purchasing a home.

My petition is about getting someone to listen. It has affected me personally, it has affected my family, it is affecting thousands of students and something needs to change. The for profit colleges that are feeding Sallie Mae need to be controlled. Stop robbing our children, its hard to live a life when your living to pay off a debt so large because the interest rates are so high that you will never pay off your loan. Cant survive if all your money goes to your student loans.

The ability to expand the campus with future construction is necessary for Goucher to remain competitive as a small liberal arts college in a crowded market. Other local institutions, from University of Maryland College Park to Towson University, are in the midst of similar development projects, as are colleges and universities around the country. Goucher is committed to doing that in a way that preserves green space and honors our commitment to environmental sustainability. Goucher has been an upstanding member of the Towson community since moving here from Baltimore City, and has worked with its neighbors in the past to ensure that anything built on campus meets with community approval and Goucher's own exacting architectural standards. The college takes great pride in its beautiful campus and frequently hosts public events, performances, and lectures that bring the Towson audience to the college to hear national leaders, artists, and speakers. Most recently, we welcomed our neighbors and community members to campus to enjoy our Goucher Summer Stage concert series. To remain competitive, to keep bringing those benefits to the community, Goucher needs the ability to expand in a way that benefits all of us, which is why I support the college's request for re-zoning.

As educators and parents in this community, we know that parents and students don't have enough options when it comes to choosing a middle or high school. We will build for you a state of the art, new middle/high school that offers a full Project Lead The Way design and competitive sports programs to help our students achieve academic and athletic success!

I have a child in the Birmingham City Schools and I have high expectations of the school district and our community leaders.