Teachers are the only professionals who are not respected enough to be allowed to assess their "clients," in this case, students and their learning gains. Teachers are the ONLY professionals trained to do this, yet we take the power out of their hands with endless hours of standardized testing that serves only to line the pockets of the major corporations that produce these tests. Enough is enough!

As described above we need the name of our Facebook Fan Page changed to support Sean Payton (Head Coach of the New Orleans Saints)

OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONS ARE AT STAKE. ALL OWNERS AND RESIDENTS OF WHITEHALL AND DARIEN PARK WHO WOULD LIKE FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO BE REDISTRICTED TO SWEET APPLE ELEMENTARY (RATED 10/10 BY GREATSCHOOLS.ORG) UNDER THE NEW NORTH FULTON REDISTRICTING PROCESS PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION! Fulton County Schools is in the process of evaluating redistricting options for North Fulton County. In November, 3 potential maps were released and only one of these options is acceptable to most residents in the Houze Way / Houze Rd corridor. Plan B places our children at Hembree Springs Elementary. Most of the neighborhoods around Whitehall and Darien Park are being redistricted for Sweet Apple Elementary, an excellent school. We strongly support Plan B (and oppose Plans A and C) but would like to be included in the Sweet Apple Elementary district along with our neighboring subdivisions. If you agree, please sign this petition and spread the word!

Too many police officers are not held accountable when they kill or mistreat Black males. We need independent prosecutors who will do their job.

I've had a custody hearing and Judge David S. Forrest was the judge who heard the case. I have proved my daughters mother has knowingly committed purgery and Judge Forrest did nothing. My daughters mother is a drug addict, and when my daughter was born they found multiple narcotics in her system. I fear for my daughters safety when she is with her mother. She has never had a stable home for my daughter to live in. I gave Judge Forrest all the evidence I had and he read it and set it aside. In another case involving my daughters mother in a custody case involving her oldest daughter, Judge Forrest was given evidence proving my ex unfit as a mother, and yet he gave her custody of her oldest daughter. Another couple had the same judge and the other parent was a drug addict and the other parent was stabile, and judge Forrest gave the drug addict custody and now the mother has no visitation to her daughter. Judge Forrest need's to be removed from the bench and a new Judge need's to be put in his place and rule favorably and read and take in to coincederation of all evidence that is being presented, and follow the law. If someone knowingly committs purgery then that person should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I'm asking everyone to please help me and sign this petition and ask all your friends to sign this petition and lets have Judge Forrest removed from the bench and a new Judge who will rule the right way. Please I'm asking all parents who have gone thru this to stand with me and sign this petition. I fear that if Judge Forrest remains a judge he will continue ruling unfairly, and children's lives will be put in danger.

Aside from the mass misinformation and miscarriage of justice in Ferguson, reporting the boy who was shot down in cold blood by police as having had a real gun which was actually INDEED a toy is more than a mistake for which to apologize: it IS MISREPRESENTING THE FACTS FOR RATINGS, which is unconscionable.

A Tooele County prison would have a negative economic impact for future businesses. Tooele County has a limited resource of water. Tooele County has limited roads. Tooele County does not have mass transportation.

Psychologists with advanced training in psychopharmacology have been prescribing safely for decades without incident in other states and the military, and it's time for Hawaii to pass a law that will help it's people.

The time has come to stop the blame game and start doing the job you, as an elected official, were chosen to do. Our government is hurting millions of people by ignoring their jobs as elected representatives of the people to grandstand and draw attention to themselves in an effort to make a bigger political name. This is a bi-partisan issue that needs to be stopped now so the government that is elected by the people, for the people, can get back to work and help our great nation.

We are thousands of Americans and Permanent Residents living in the USA who believe we should have the same privileges of freedom back home. Unfortunately having the same president Biya for the last 32 year makes exercising these freedoms ultimately impossible.

I want a closer Pappadeaux venue to eat at, and I believe thousands of my fellow Kentuckiana residents agree. The location is perfect and the market is here.

If the overtime pay threshold were raised to $69,000, capital holders "would be forced to hire millions more people to do the work you currently do for free. That would drive down unemployment. And a tighter labor market would drive up wages for the first time in 40 years." "In 1975, more than 65 percent of salaried American workers earned time-and-a-half pay for every hour worked over 40 hours a week. Not because capitalists back then were more generous, but because it was the law. It still is the law, except that the value of the threshold for overtime pay—the salary level at which employers are required to pay overtime—has been allowed to erode to less than the poverty line for a family of four today. Only workers earning an annual income of under $23,660 qualify for mandatory overtime." "To get the country back to the same equitable standards we had in 1975, the Department of Labor would simply have to raise the overtime threshold to $69,000." - Nick Hanauer, "Whatever Happened to Overtime?" in Politico Magazine, November 17, 2014