Henry Hudson Regional School is planning to emit the Senior Slideshow from the Senior Graduation Ceremony. Last year, the graduation's run time was under an hour, with the Senior Slideshow. Last year, several students did not submit pictures to the Slideshow, and yet, the show went on, using those students' yearbook pictures instead. The two thirds of students that submitted their pictures should not be penalized for the faults of others, and in past years, they were not. Please, consider keeping the great tradition of the Senior Slideshow intact.

A new pipeline to bring water halfway across the state of Connecticut to UConn would threaten the future ecological health of the Farmington River and the water needs of the communities within the watershed. This cross-basin transfer of water - with the potential for far greater withdrawals in the future - is a poor precedent to set in an increasingly uncertain water future and especially in the absence of regional and state-wide water planning. Already, periods of prolonged drought have led to inadequate flows below the reservoir system which have placed significant stress on the trout and aquatic life in the river and pose further economic hardships on the riverside communities which rely on the angling and recreational tourism the river provides.

I am frustrated with the no action on guns so maybe a different approach will work.

We are closer now than ever to holding Ms. Rhee accountable. I believe we should follow Atlanta's example and do so. See the link to the memo published in one of the Washington Post blogs. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/consultants-memo-on-dc-schools/101/ The first year Ms. Rhee was in office she offered teachers $8K and principals $10K for making gains of 20 percentage points or more in math or reading. I remember the start of the following school year after the test scores came back. Teachers were gathered at the convention center for a back to school pep rally. Rhee used the word "unbelievable" at least 10 times to describe those test scores gains yet she handed out the checks to those staff anyway. Staff of several schools were handed checks. One school claimed to have made gains 30% in reading AND 40% in math. 40%!!!! I mean if those scores had been real, every magazine in the country would have featured the staff on the cover of their magazines. Anyone with two brain cells should have investigated because anyone who works with real educational improvement knows how very difficult even a 5% gain can be. The memo further proves that there was enough evidence in that year to support further investigations. I believe Michele Rhee suspected that those scores were false, yet because they made her look good, she never properly nor fully investigated. Instead she paid out the big bucks. I wonder how much of her overall success of raising test scores 6% in reading and 15% for elementary schools over the 4 years she served came from those dramatic (yet likely false) gains of that first year. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/51523921#51523921 Bottom line, a person without integrity is a person not to be trusted, nor respected. Lets bring justice to yet another "DC scandal."

The Democracy, our Constitution and our Humans Rights are being violated by this illegitime Government. #SOS VENEZUELA

Fossil fuels are unsustainable, yet they still comprise the majority of our society’s energy consumption. Technology exists, and continues to improve, for renewable and responsible development of solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and even of safer nuclear energy, but often the political will does not exist to commit to them over the more conventional, cheaper fossil fuels. H.B 950, 200, and 100 proposed by Representative Greg Vitali of Delaware County would 1) permanently ban gas drilling in the remaining untouched Pennsylvanian state forestland, almost half of which has already been signed away for development; 2) save the PA Sunshine Solar Program, which helps homeowners and small businesses to install solar systems; 3) amend the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2004 to increase the renewable energy requirement from 8% to 15% and from 0.5% solar to 1.5% solar, which is more competitive with that of other states. These bills give us an opportunity to correct the dangerously unsustainable path that we are on now, and can lay the foundation for a building a brighter, more hopeful future.

Dr. Moreno has been teaching at CBC about 10 years. He been teaching Chicano history, Interculture studies, World Civ 3 and Mexico history. They made Dr. Moreno a adjunct instead a fulltime professor they brought someone else to teach his classes and does not have the same knowledge as Dr. Moreno.

Of course, anybody that has worked many years want to receive full benefits they are entitled to. Money was literally borrowed from the Social Security pot years ago by one President of the USA, and to my knowledge, that money has never been returned! It should be AGAINST the Law for lawmakers to even CONSIDER cutting those benefits at all!

We want to have a basketball court built in the local park for the use of the children of the neighborhood.

School-Within-School (SWS) will move to the Goding Elementary School building that currently houses Prospect Learning Center at 10th & F Street NE this fall. School Within a School is one of our most popular neighborhood elementary schools and has historically admitted a majority of neighborhood students through its local school boundaries. Currently, it has the highest percentage of neighborhood children of any school on Capitol Hill. School parents and neighbors applauded loudly when we learned it would receive its own school building at 10th & F, but we are very disappointed to learn that DCPS has dropped the school boundaries and is not providing ANY neighborhood preference. Already this year, two families who live directly across the street from the school had their children denied admission to SWS. Last year, SWS has the one of the few longest waitlists for PreK3 admissions in the entire city with 275 families seeking, but not obtaining admission. With a continuing boom in our neighborhood’s young population and no preference for neighborhood families, Capitol Hill parents stand to lose one of our most popular schools as a viable public school option for our children.

I can not turn my head and allow workplace bullying. I have a new diagnosis with what I just experienced: PTSD due to a hostile work enviroment. I am still wondering if I am actually totally disabled from the bullying I just experienced, and am facing weekly appointments with mental health professionals. What can you do? I did talk to an attorney who said their's no law against "abusive work enviroments, that's why workplace bullying continues and is on the rise". Well, please help me to make an antibullying law, the bill is already written, and can be found under Mass.HB1766. Please everybody get involved! This is far too important to ignore, and is this worst form of discrimation as it has been brushed under the carpet for too long. I am just one of the millions that have been injured.

This petition is about stopping Social Services from taking children from loving and deserving homes and putting them up for adoption. This happened to our family not once, but twice because my nephew was taken from my sister, he was placed in foster care and then with me where he was subsequently taken for mandates, whatever that means. I feel that he should be home with my sister as she complied with their demands and was told she had a year to comply, after 4 months of complying, they forced her to sign her rights over. He is currently up for adoption, all he wants is to be home and that is all we want to!!