Save the Beartooth front! We, the citizens of South-Central Montana and others who love to travel here, declare that we will NOT stand by and allow our beloved landscape to be fracked for oil and gas. We do not need or want anything akin to the Bakken disaster in OUR backyard. Our land and water are at stake, and therefore our tourism and agricultural economies, not to mention our cherished outdoors that make this such a special place to live. We call upon John Mork and his Energy Corporation of America to leave Montana, the last best place. Thank you to all who sign. Deb Muth, Chair Carbon County Resource Council Carbon County Resource Council, the local chapter of Northern Plains Resource Council, aims to bring together the hundreds of people who have begun to cry out in response to news that we may be facing the disaster of fracking here in the Beartooths and Big Horn river basin. Northern Plains Resource Council is a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group. We organize Montana citizens to protect our water quality, family farms and ranches, and unique quality of life.

Petition Background The opening of Navigator and Rocketship Charters would negatively impact our STUDENTS and neighborhood schools as follows: •The opening of a Rocketship Charter will immediately close one of our neighborhood schools. This would likely cause boundary changes. All other elementary sites will be forced to consolidate, resulting in massive student and teacher reassignments from their current neighborhood schools. •Rocketship will use its associated construction company Launch Pad to build on a 1.6 acre site on Church and San Pedro (behind World Gas Station). Our MHUSD sites follow the minimum 10 acre guideline. Using non-profit bonds to build a high density school that will immediately cause one of our neighborhood schools to close and remain vacant is not a good plan for our neighborhoods. •The opening of a Navigator Charter will cause two schools to share the same campus: a charter school and a current neighborhood school. The disparity of resources between the schools will negatively impact the neighborhood school students. •Navigator and Rocketship primarily focus on English, Math, and obsolete California State Test Scores by narrowing or eliminating History, Science, Foreign Language, Music and Art. •At Navigator and Rocketship, large groups of students spend 1.5 to 2 hours daily in front of computers supervised by tutor/aides rather than teachers. •At Rocketship, an average school of 450 students have 10 teachers (1:45 ratio, 1 teacher for 45 students). This is not the ratio that we want in our schools. In Morgan Hill, our current ratio is 1:29. We prefer to reduce class sizes, not raise them. •Due to the application process, Navigator and Rocketship will not serve all students or even a representative population of our district. They serve English Language Learners very close to proficiency. They require high parent participation. These charters also serve far fewer students with disabilities. If students are not successful, or the charter does not have appropriate programs, these students are returned to our neighborhood public schools. •Our neighborhood schools will receive less funding and this would negatively impact every campus in our district including programs such as Jackson Academy of Math and Music, our Dual-Immersion Multicultural Education Program and planned technology and science academies for P.A. Walsh and San Martin-Gwinn Elementary Schools. •75% of Rocketship teachers are Teach for America interns. These interns have only 5 weeks of teacher preparation. 99% of MHUSD teachers are required to have 1-3 years of post-graduate teacher education. For more information: Stop Rocketship Website http://www.stoprocketship.com/ LA Times Article, The Charter School Mistake by Diane Ravitch http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/01/opinion/la-oe-ravitch-charters-school-reform-20131001 The Hype Behind Charter Schools http://www.districtadministration.com/article/hype-behind-charter-schools New Data Shows School Reformers are Getting it Wrong http://billmoyers.com/2013/06/07/new-data-shows-school-reformers-are-getting-it-wrong/ David C. Berliner on Inequality, Poverty and the Widening Education Gap http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/10/david-berliner-on-inequality-poverty.html PAC Money Floods Local School Board Races http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_21896419/ I SUPPORT QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION at our neighborhood schools and urge the Santa Clara County School Board NOT TO APPROVE THESE CHARTER PETITIONS.

These chemicals are used all over Maui for sugar cane production and should be banned. The cane is grown a short distance from a major portion of Maui's population. The health and safety of the citizens of Maui, especially our children, are being harmed and threatened by these dangerous chemicals.

Racist websites should not be allowed to exist and spread hate. http://niggermania.com/afnfaq/index.html

I am on Social Security. It's not an "entitlement." I have paid into Social Security all of my working life. And so have you! Do not let the federal government steal our money! Social Security is solvent. It should not be touched. Let the government take money from the bloated Pentagon budget, or from corporations that pay no taxes.

Once again they are talking of a GRAND BARGAIN that will cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The middle class and the poor have been hammered for the last 30 years. It is time to reverse the trend and insure that all the citizen of the United States can have a measure of security and dignity.

The Management Oath is a voluntary pledge for graduating MBAs and current MBAs to create value, responsibly and ethically. We are building upon these essential efforts to create a community of MBAs with a high standard for ethical and professional behavior. It is different from the Honor Code since the Honor Code governs students’ behavior only during their time in school, but the Oath aims to guide their entire professional lives.

Child being limited on what medical testing/treatment because they get illinois medical card. Every child needs to be treated equally no matter what their insurance is.

We are creating an App that allows Boston citizens to track where the nearest T is similar to the BU bus app. Separated by each line. It will alert users as to when the next one they are searching for will arrive Updates on the status of each T. It will also have a T schedule on it.

To have Congress pass a law that will PROTECT OUR CHILDREN from being disciplined literally to death in our schools!

Scores of young children live in Madrona Crest. The unnecessary traffic must end before a biker, pedestrian, or especially a child gets hurt. Nonresidents bypass the light at ICW & SE 40th ST by cutting through our neighborhood, heading to/from 86th Ave SE & SE 40th ST to/from ICW & SE 39th ST. Nonresidents also travel to/from downtown Mercer Island via ICW & 84th Ave SE to/from 86th Ave SE & SE 40th ST. Block the North intersection of 86th Ave SE & SE 40th ST and the unnecessary traffic will end.

California State Retirees is a non-profit organization that was part of the group that originally fought to establish retiree healthcare for thousands of state employees. And yet now CSR is fighting against providing that same benefit for its own employees. The employees of California State Retirees and affiliates have been working without a contract for 19 months. At the bargaining table against its own employees, CSR and its affiliates have refused to consider any proposal that includes retiree healthcare for any new employees, even though it wouldn't cost them a penny for at least a decade. The employees of California State Retirees fight every day for their members' right to retiree healthcare and yet they are told that they do not deserve that same right. Sign our petition and call on the California State Retirees to bargain in good faith and fight FOR its employees, not against them!