Students are not mass produced robots and since each student learns differently and brings his or her own set of unique issues to teaching learning/dynamic a student's educational growth cannot be measured by a great emphasis on standardized tests. Furthermore a one size fits all teacher evaluation framework assumes a number of assumptions that are not necessarily true for all students.

for more then 2 or 3 yrs i lived onthe streets of merced county and i wounder every day where i was going to eat and take a shower and wash my cloths and i know what it is like to be homeless and i know with everyones help and funds and donation.s and if we all work together and join in we can stop and help people get off the the streets and turn theire life around and become somebody that people will say wow look at the diffrance and look how this person has turned out so please join in with me in signing this petition to get the goverment and local people to give funds and aid the stop homelessness so please take a second and sign something that will make a diffrance..thank you

Stephanie Miller a self proclaimed "sexy liberal" radio host accepts advertising dollars from Soda Stream to support her show. SodaStream markets itself as an environmentally friendly product to “Turn Water Into Fresh Sparkling Water And Soda”… but there is nothing sexy about the destruction of Palestinian life, land and water resources! SodaStream is an Israeli corporation that produces all of its carbonation devices in an illegal settlement in the West Bank. All Israeli settlements exist in direct contravention to international law! This settlement company obscures its true illegal origin by marking its products “Made in Israel”, however “made in an illegal Israeli settlement” is more like it.

Congress wants to balance the budget and in part seems to blame Social Security. Therefore, they should be bound by the same rules of qualification. If deeper cuts are thought to be needed to Social Security, then perhaps Social Security as well as any other public/government retirement benefits should not be afforded to Congress. They need to be part of the sufferage of the mess they put us into.

The public is said to generally favor congressional term limits. A July 2003 Wall Street Journal poll found that two-thirds of Americans believed that giving Congress term limits was a positive idea

I tried to listen to my favorite Progressive radio station, AM 1090 KPTK Seattle today and found that corrupt right wingers have replaced Washington State's only Progressive radio station with mindless sports broadcasting. However, right wing stations spewing right wing propaganda are all over the dial and hard to avoid.

Presently credit card issuers have free reign for fees and policies often changing their rules (interest rates, late fees, due dates, and junk fees) at the drop of a hat. The credit card agreement should be a one year agreement with 60days notice of changes for the next contract.

Haitians immigrants living in U.S before January 2013.

How will we protect your families & property when someone will try to harm them or try to take them from us.

A patriotic and decorated CIA agent is slated to go to jail for 30 months for revealing the name of another agent to a reporter who did not publish it and could have used it as a source for further reporting on torture, perpetrated in the name of the USA. No security was compromised.

Our national voter turnout is rather dismal compared to many other western industrialized countries. In part this can be traced to our Election Day being a regular, midweek, work day, and NOT a holiday. In recent years we have seen increasing efforts to suppress voter turnout. Many state legislatures have placed an increasing number of obstacles, in time and procedure, in the path of the voter. If we can create national holidays in memory of great American citizens, why can we not agree on a national holiday honoring the greatest American of all, The Voter?

My son, Brian, lost his job because he was ill. Delta fired him while he was on FLMA stating that he didn't have the time available. The way Delta works their FLMA is misapplied. They use a running 12 month period of time and if an employee becomes ill at the beginning of the year, there is no FLMA time built up to cover the time needed.