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In this article it explains how much money illegal immigrants and students it cost the Us taxpayers, annually.

This website is about how different it is to be homeschool vs a regular school. Gives percentages on what school offcials believe and how it affects students.

Back in the 60's religion was something that was part of the teachers lesson plans along with bible reading. In todays world it is the exact opposite, teachers are being told not to discuss religion in their class rooms.

This is an article that discusses the rights of students and their families when it comes to the disclosure of academic records. This also talks about which officials should be able to get a hold of such information.

This article is about faculty and students who decide to fight against the rise in tuition and the loss of jobs at the campuses in 2009. They decide to do a "walkout" in an attempt to stop this.

This articles discusses the protest on January 19th of this year and the arrests that were made in an attempt to lower tuition fees. Supposedly, students came from all UC colleges to Riverside in order to protest the ridiculous tuition hikes.

This includes the recent protest at UC Riverside due to the tuition increases. There was to be a UC Regents meeting there and students showed up to get their opinions out in the open.

This article talks about why the tuition is increasing. It also includes how it is affecting the students that are enrolled there.

US Marine is arrested for carrying a hand gun on campus. This sparked a lawsuit to over turn the ruling for college students to carry on campus.

A Utah college is allowing students to carry concealed weapons on campus if they have a permit. There is an ongoing debate of whether or not more schools should convert to this policy or whether it would be safer for there to simply be no fire arms on campus.

This article talks about how high schools should hand out contracepties to students. Studies show this will decrease the number of teen pregnancies. Some also have the concer that thy will be promoting sex at such a young age. Although it is safe sex, this can be a good thing as well as bad.

Art education reaps many benefits for students. People may not realize, but studies in the Arts is a great foundation for academics. So it's a shame that when budgets get tight that the first thing to go are the arts programs. Maybe we should re-think priorities in schools, and weave these arts back into the classroom

The whole purpose of this website is to inform people of each requirement that is needed for a young person to receive the benefits of the DREAM act. Some of these requirements include being in the United States for at least 5 years without leaving. This bill does not guarantee them citizenship right away but what it does is it lets them stay in the United States if they agree to either join the U.S military or attend college. Mostly all illegal immigrant students want to do both so it benefits them in many ways, since it is already in their minds.

Takes about some of the feelings of the bullied vicitim and what they actually feel like. It discusses the bullies and what the consquences it has on them from continuous bullying and then goes into details about the witness and how they feel seeing bullying being taken place. It is a website that students helped design.

The Common Core standard were brought about by the Obama Administration. The purpose of Common Core is to clearly define what student should be knowing in each grade level and eliminate the unevenness of former state standards. A majority of states have adopted the standard while there are few states who have decided that their current state standards are preferable. The article also goes over the reasons why we have come to this point, and how to move forward.

C-Span interview with Diane Ravitch discussing her book. Provides her insight into why she wrote the book and the content of the book

This is support from a teacher at an academic center for the DREAM Act, as numerous of her students fall into the category of Dreamers. It shows statistics that would increase jobs and revenue for America.

A kindergarten teacher posts a negative comment about two students in her class after having to break up a fight between the two. Many are outraged at her comments and want her to be fired for posting them online.

Late-adolescence are acting and becoming more grown up than past years. Many high school students are wanting to grow up fast and experiance new life as their older peers, no matter what the cost is. Families need to protect and make sure they talk to their adolescent childrent so he or she will not go down the wrong path. Parents need to show them what exactly an adult goes through and thier responsibility they endure to be a successful adult.

After the overwhelming increase in cyber bullying, states are trying to figure out acceptable punishment. Protesters believe that their freedom of speech should be protected in cyber bullying and that being bullied is apart of life. The schools are trying to educate their students so the fatalities of cyber bullying can be prevented.