http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/ We, the undersigned, want Chicago Public Schools to stop the $26 million cut out of the 2007 Special Education Budget. We demand the student to teacher ratio remain low so that youth with disabilities and Deaf youth are educated to their fullest ability. We also demand that students be provided with aides to make sure they learn in the least restrive environment, as required by LAW! This petition is being circulated by Advance Youth Leadership Power (AYLP), an advocacy group of young people with disabilities. Stop the budget cuts NOW! Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:1:47 CDT en-us 3 http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig4271167 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig4222313 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig4063898 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3827881 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. The budget cuts need to be stopped now!! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3654493 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I Support This Petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3592898 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3586444 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3390255 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Curtis Harris's comments are too long: Making comment reading and adding difficult and enabled. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3332531 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I have a friend thats in S.E. and she has nothing wrong with her at all! she hates it and ppl should have the right to decide and lead a normal life like everyone else!!! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3258890 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST we need this to pass in the usa. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3225951 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I'm a former special education student as the first autistic student in the Chicago Public School system on January 9, 1984 at Le Moyne Elementary School. I was disappointed last Summer at the $26.5 million budget deficit in special education. I hope the Board don't have to make any more cuts this year. I also signing this petition against the Board closing Le Moyne Elementary School, near Wrigley Field in Lakeview. I don't want to see my history being erased, because I'm also the first former autistic student to go to a four-year college; first former autistic student to testify at the Board of Education meeting about autism last summer; against the Budget cuts; Writing a letter to Arne Duncan about my success in CPS autistic programs and learning disability programs before I graduated from high school and went to college. He and Dr. Renee Grant Mitchell was very impressed about my struggles with aperger's symptom of autism to excel academically to go to college and doing even better. I may be the first former CPS autistic student to graduate from college. I hope the Board don't have to close Le Moyne school, whose enrollment include 33 to 44 percent of students with autism. Le Moyne was the premier autistic program in the CPS system. In 2005 the Board voted to close the Early Childhood autistic program, discontinued accepting new students and moved the Inter-American magnet program into the Le Moyne. I praying to God that Duncan doesn't be forced to make this decision. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3029353 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3027943 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Superb! (I wrote something else and then I read below that I aint supposed ter. So I deleted it.) http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3026001 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Superb! (I wrote something else and then I read below that I aint supposed ter. So I deleted it.) http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3011189 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Bonjour! What a super websight! Very refreshing to peruse from where we live in Paris (France). I eat frogs and drink wine. Woold like more informatons on this. Best regards! Mikael. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3009840 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I got the same tramadol attack... well, not the same, because it was only about 20 comments instead of 90, and i t have any filtering set up, and I just deleted them one at a time... hmm.. the only thing really in common was that it was about tramadol... what filter do you have set up that caught them all? http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3005780 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I always have terrible trouble with comment-related plugins that require me to put some line in the comment loop; I can never seem to find the right spot. Can anyone tell me where I should put the php line in my comments loop? I haven not modified anything much, and I would be very grateful. Thanks! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig3005254 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I always have terrible trouble with comment-related plugins that require me to put some line in the comment loop; I can never seem to find the right spot. Can anyone tell me where I should put the php line in my comments loop? I haven not modified anything much, and I would be very grateful. Thanks! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig2959231 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST yes of course. i was in a special ED, and i hated the teachers (well not all).i left in yr 9 to mainstream. Every year it gets worse. now i just finish school (completed HSC in 2006). i could have done better without the special ed. why do i have to wait for the dumb pple to catch up with me and why the teachers act so not normal to me. Im not suppose to be in the special ed but why do i have to move there? i have no disabily or anything. i was placed in the special ed in yr1 to yr 9. High school specail ed was the worst, its like u have to repeat everything from the start. Even when i was yr 3 and 4, they have more challenging questions than in high school. In high sschool, i have to WAIT for the dummies. Special ED. ruin my life, why i cant live normal like every other students? Why i cant be treated equally? why are the students dont acccept me even if im already out of the special ed? Why do i have to miss out the mainstream lessons? Why do i have to be behind? I want to study in university to do teaching and become a teacher. If i was to become a teacher, i would help the student out of the special ed. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcpscuts/#sig2923201 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I don't live in Chicago, but I agree with Mr. Ocampo's statements. My sister is a Special Education student, so I know what kind of care is needed to help them. Budget cuts are not the way to help these kids.