Equal pay for both men and women on television should be a given. Do not forget how many of your viewers are women!

As parents, educators and administrators, we object to the impact of high-stakes testing on our children, teachers, and schools. We oppose the alleged use of our children’s personal data in the private sector. We oppose the dismissal of parental consent and legal rights to refuse the use of this personal information. Measuring our students’ progress by extensive tests imposes developmentally inappropriate expectations on our young learners and limits our teachers’ ability to respond appropriately to our students’ academic needs. To succeed with such extensive tests, teachers must prioritize the test’s narrow content over the exploratory spirit of their students. We believe the curiosity for knowledge, inherent in all young children, must be nurtured and not subjected to unproven methods and mandates. Data collected through these high-stakes tests does not reflect the truth about student progress; rather, it spreads distortion throughout the curriculum, damaging a teacher’s ability to do his or her best work. To judge a teacher by this measure is an extreme disservice to his or her life’s work. The curriculum aligned with these tests was not received at the start of the school year. Our students were expected to demonstrate achievement in these new standards without a learning curve. The scale of this testing makes it impossible to obtain the results until after the school year has ended, rendering its value to our teachers useless. Assessment tools, in the form of tests, will always be a part of public education. However, the curriculum and tests have been changing every year, creating confusion and frustration rather than clarity and accountability. Teachers will be evaluated on student progress as measured by these unproven tests. There is no credible evidence that test scores are an accurate measurement of teacher effectiveness. Yet, they will be held accountable, and 40% of their evaluations will reflect these scores. The classroom is a dynamic place, the test a very narrow window into a child’s understanding. Good teachers are able to draw out abilities and support areas of weakness, while moving the entire class forward. We value our teachers’ ability to uncover the unique path to each student’s heart and mind. To rank children based on their test scores goes against the progressive beliefs of parents and educators that the “whole child” must learn to be a productive citizen of the world. It does not measure the very elements of this generation of children such as their civic mindedness, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, or critical thinking skills. To this end, I call for a moratorium in my loudest voter’s voice!

Our school has been effected co-location by elected public officials who have sign off in agreement of co-locating a failing school into our existing building. They claim that we have space in our building to hold an additional 60-80 students. Our general population which holds 768 students, can hold up to 818 students, elected officials approved this co-location proposal on 4/17/2013 without warning or giving parents, who have children waiting on an existing waiting priority over the in coming school effective as of 9/2013. It is not only happening in Brooklyn, each borough is being affected by co-locations of schools and parents should have a voice in their children's education. Folks who do not have children in the school system, should not have a voice for what is good for them. Parents get on board with your child's education, they will only be left behind if we, as parents of a new generation don't stand up for them.

I am a Civil Servant for the past 10 years (GS-5) and every dollar that is cut from my benefits means I have to pay for the difference. At GS-5 level that makes a big difference as I don't make 100k/year. The furloughs will cut my pay 13% this year and that's hard when your supporting a family. 20 billion in sequester savings (at most) will not make a difference in a multi-trillion dollar budget deficit. Look elsewhere and stop targeting Federal Civil Servants by using us as scapegoats for every financial problem this country has.

Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries refuses to make clothes for larger women stating that it is against his company's marketing objective.

Nathan Dunlap is scheduled to be executed in Colorado the week of Aug 18, 2013. The death penalty is rarely used [5%] in cases where it would be allowed. Instead execution is used to scare any pleading prisoner into a stiffer sentence .

Continues to raise the cost of our plan, co-pays, x-rays, MRI's and medicine. At the same time they have a hospital in Italy and just built a $10 million hospital in Ireland. They deny us, including family members of their Physicians, certain treatments or equipment, which can improve our health.

Too many innocent people are losing their lives because the gun industry thru the NRA and other irrational extremists are misusing the 2nd Amendment by all means possible to further their profits and justify their irrational behaviour towards a democraticaly chosen government.

Please oppose the Insurance Industry's effort to gut Michigan's no-fault system through House Bill 4612, which will cost us thousands of jobs, heap millions of dollars in increased Medicaid costs onto taxpayers, and take away needed care for our state's most seriously injured while not providing consumers any real or lasting savings.

Yes, I've been Personally affected By This practice. I am in a Contract with this company, And each month I receive a different amount on My Bill. And the services is not that great, When there is a problem with their own equipment, many time Xfinity charges the Customer for repairing there own equipment. A Sad Shame..

Ye, I've been Personally affected By This practice. I am in a Contract with this company, And each month I receive a different amount on My Bill. And the services is not that great, When there is a problem with their own equipment, many time Xfinity charges the Customer for repairing there own equipment. A Sad Shame..

Help make equality a reality for all Ohioans1 Governor John Kasich doesn't agree with you and me, and has a long record of prejudice on this issue. Aside from opposing marriage equality, last month, in amazingly fast flip flop, John Kasich went from being "okay" to "no way" on civil unions in a matter of hours. His flip-flop shouldn’t come as a surprise to Ohioans. Kasich has a long anti-LGBT record, beginning with his time in Congress, when he voted to ban adoptions by gay parents, and supported the Defense of Marriage Act and the military's now defunct “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that ruined so many good soldiers', sailors' and marines' careers and lives. . Delaware became the 11th state to move forward and make marriage universally available to couples of the same gender as it has for centuries to heterosexual couples OHIO needs to be the 12th state. But our regressive governor doesn;t see it that way nor does he act that way. Some in the OHIO House are even more regressive than the Governor. We know where this issue is going. It isn't cysorclical. There will be universal recognition of gay marriage eventually, so why not now? OHIO next and then the Federal Government so that the rest of the states come on board in a swoop - or swish (sorry, it just came out).