People should sign this petition because kony is a criminal that forces children to fight in wars and kill their own parents, he also forces the girls to be sex slaves.

SDUSD approved an initiative mandating all students to take 2 years of Career Technical Education (CTE) courses in the same subject in order to graduate. We want the Board of Trustees to rescind this new requirement for the following reasons: • The CTE graduation requirement was voted by the Board without a full analysis of the impact of implementation, possible shortcomings, and without alignment of CTE courses offered with UC’s and CSU’s. • The CTE requirement is being implemented without notifying parents of affected students until after it is too late for them to take World Languages in middle school, so they are already behind schedule. • It’s inequitable. It’s impossible to offer all the CTE courses at all the schools, and the district does not offer transportation for students whose career plan would benefit from a CTE course offered at a different school. • Forcing a two-year CTE requirement in conjunction with new “a-g” graduation requirements severely curtails or eliminates space for any electives (including in 7th and 8th grade, when they must take a world language), particularly electives that showcase leadership skills that colleges covet, such as ASB, yearbook, etc. • Intervention programs for “a-g” requirements and D and F grades have not been well developed and may necessitate additional course time, but with the CTE requirement, there will be no time in a student’s schedule to implement them. • The 2-year CTE requirement forces students to choose a career pathway at a minimum of age 16, with no opportunity to change their minds. • CTE courses dampen down GPA. Because none are weighted with a 5.0 grade point, they effectively “drag down” a student’s GPA compared to those courses with more rigor, such as AP and Honors. • CTE courses reduce academic rigor. Students applying to college with CTE courses will appear to have had less rigorous academics and be viewed poorly relative to students from other districts without CTE requirements. • Community colleges already offer career courses students beginning at age 15. • High school students transferring into SDUSD (e.g. military families) won’t be able to fulfill these requirements as no other district has these mandates.

From exposing Wall Street, to marching in the Southern States for voter's rights, to rebuking injustices such as the Trayvon Martin crusade... The Citizens of this great country have united to form what is becoming the the greatest civil movement of our generation. The mantra, "It takes a village..." has never been more important than it is now. In today's world of self-interest groups, compartmentalization, and self-adulation; we would like to pay homage to those individuals who serve our communities selflessly. Please sign this petition as a show of support for the contributions that allow communities to flourish. If you know a person or organization in your community that you believe embodies this idea of service, nominate them for a Community Award. Simply click the "contact" link at the top of this petition and email us their name and a brief summary of why you believe they should be nominated. The petition -- and the list of nominees -- will be categorically listed in a commemorative "We Are The 99%" publication so the masses will be informed of their contributions and (hopefully) work with them to make their communities even better. The 2012 Krusader Community Awards is scheduled for June 7th at the Marmon Banquet Hall in Chicago's south Loop. It will celebrate the accomplishments of people in YOUR community, and who knows who they are better than YOU? Reminder: Click "contact" to submit your nominee(s), and be sure to add their neighborhood or Ward if you know it.

Unfunded mandates. The Illinois Gneral Assembly likes to pass on the costs of it's laws to the local level. If they are going to pass a law, they should fund it and pay for it.

Tell our Board of Supervisors that we will NO LONGER accept minimum funding and drastic funding cuts to our school system. Our schools are deteriorating and overcrowded after years of neglect and postponed repairs and improvements. Our teachers are the lowest paid in the area. Our children, teachers and staff deserve to learn and teach in positive environments with up to date textbooks, safe equipment, appropriate instructional tools and technology.

How to help students raise little money for them to go back to school

Staying there is senseless. We are only enforcing the resolve of the Taliban and we should be working with them to create some kind of compromise on disallowing terrorist training camps.

My petition is about jobs and wages. Prices are going up. I feel if prices are going up, our wages should increase so people that are making minimum wage or a little over could keep up with the economy. People should sign this so they can see how many people struggle with their nickle and dime jobs and our wages have yet to increase so we can keep up.

Our petition is about promoting empowerment, and positive American History. Lexington, KY is full of positive uplifting history, however our city is littered with negative landmarks. Streets named after public lynching sights and slave auctions "cheapside" referring to the cheap slaves and live stock. Lexingtons "old" courthouse has a Confederate solider statue on Main St next to Cheapside. We feel taking action to have this statue removed would be taking a step closer to rid our country of racial insensitivity.

Tell your state representative and Governor Deal that members of the campus community deserve the same right to defend themselves against violent crime both on and off campus.

This petition is addressed to help students, tax payers and teachers. The education reform bill seeks to give vouchers so kids can attend private schools that are not equipped to handle children with disabilities, end teacher tenure meaning a teacher can be fired for any reason even if the reason is not a valid one, teachers would loose their jobs because of student test scores.

Tigard Oregon is a suburb of the Portland Oregon metro area. Tigard is supported by local caring people who shop local businesses, and have done their best to keep Walmart out of our town. Now the Tigard City Council and Mayor have approved a deal allowing Walmart to enter into the city where concerned citizens have repeatedly pushed Walmart out. Again Walmart has behind the scenes negotiated for a store that will not only lower property values, destroy local businesses, increase traffic exponentially in a area that is already overloaded with traffic, take away more living wage jobs and take money out of our community. Want to become more involved? Visit us at: http://www.nowalmartintigard.org/