We have noticed that one of the best teachers in our school is being put to half-time. She has tenure yet is not being honored for all that she has done for the school. She is not being appreciated for all her hard work throughout these years and has instead been shunned at the first opportunity. Those who have put in years of service educating students should be respected for all their hard work. So, instead of making her a half-time worker, they should learn from her experiences, and value her tenure. Ms. Capozzi is a hard working teacher who always finds a way to make you laugh no matter what is happening in your life. She is a shoulder to cry on, a friend, and one of the best English teachers we have ever had. Within the past years, we have lost two English teachers and she does not deserve this at all.
Losing Mrs. Capozzi part of the time will be a huge loss to the school, which is why we encourage you to sign this so that we are able to fully learn from her experiences, and cherish her until she retires.
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Norman Topping Family started this petition to Provost, University of Southern California Dr. Michael Quick
The Norman Topping Student Aid Fund (NTSAF) is a community based scholarship, and is significantly different from other university scholarships. NTSAF is the only student initiated, student funded, primarily student administered scholarship in the nation. The purpose of the NTSAF is to “assist entering freshman, transfer and graduate students with high financial need, and who demonstrate an extraordinary level of community awareness, in their pursuit of higher education at USC.” With this criteria in place, NTSAF scholars are selected and guided to successfully graduate and thrive at and beyond USC.
On January 2, 2018, 47 years after the origination of the Norman Topping Scholarship Fund, it was announced by the USC Office of the Vice Provost that a restructuring of the scholarship fund was to take place. This restructuring would effectively remove the director effective February 2018. As a student-initiated, student-funded and student-administered initiative, the scholarship’s governing body, the NTSAF Governing Board, was not consulted, nor made aware of the decision to reorganize. Ultimately, failing to honor the agreement made in the 1970 NTSAF charter to obtain consent from the Fund’s Governing Board.
The Program Director position is vital to the success and growth of the NTSAF. The program Director provides a safe, supportive environment for USC’s most versatile and driven students. As a first generation, USC alum herself, Christina Yokoyama’s leadership has brought an unifying, efficient and dynamic experience for Topping Scholars. Under her leadership, countless Topping Scholars have had the support to achieve university, local and national recognitions such as Order of Troy recipients, Fulbright Scholars, Renaissance Scholars, Teach for America corps members, Riordan Fellows, Schwarzman Scholars and USC’s most recent Rhodes Scholar, one of only nine Trojans to ever achieve this.
As USC grows continues to accept students from diverse backgrounds, the correct leadership to support them must be in place. The Program Director ensures that the funds contributed across campus from each USC student are used to provide quality programing aligned to the mission of the NTSAF. The Program Director spearheads the recruitment and acceptance of the prestigious Topping cohort. The Program Director serves as an advisor for NTSAF programing and for students’ individual academic success.
The elimination of the Program Director position would cause a disservice to the current Topping Scholars and provide diluted programing to additional students. If a growth in programing is recommended, then an increase in staffing would be necessary - not the elimination of the Program Director position.
By signing this petition, you will be supporting the USC Norman Topping Family. The USC Topping Family is requesting the decision to remove the Program Director position be reversed and Christina Yokoyama reinstated as director.
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At Westminster, a special event is taking place marking 100 years since women over 30 won the right to vote. It’s been a century of remarkable progress, but the struggle for equality still continues. Theresa May has paid tribute to the “heroic campaigns of the past”, but criticised what she called the coarsening of public debate and online abuse faced by many women in public life.
Greetings to you all, my dearest friends on Earth! May you all be blessed by the many angels that are among all the spirits around you, as they bring the light to earth, for you to disseminate. As you transfer the light by doing light work, and you send out the light, you are given these wonderful divine energies by the Lord’s angels of light. Their presence in the last years has increased, and so has their work, as they help with raising mankind’s vibration, as well as earth’s and that of all other life on her. You may not see them, nor ever notice them, but without their everlasting efforts, there could be no life force on earth, as it gets delivered by them. It is now the time to become aware of their presence, and to accept their gifts of light, which they offer to you every day – only to be turned down by many of the humans on earth. Regardless, they keep offering this light, and they are allowed to spread a certain amount to everyone, but due to the cosmic laws, they can only spread some of it unless these gifts, these blessings, are accepted by those that receive them. The more you become aware of their presence, the easier it becomes for them to do their work, to fulfill their tasks, and to help and assist you, to give you the strength you need, which may come to you in the form of blessings when you allow this to happen, and open your heart to these wonderful energies. It’s the time to tear down the fake walls of protection, that many have built up – these maraud walls only help to keep you locked up, like in solitary confinement, but are becoming not only a great burden, but are also quite useless to begin with, as the only true protection comes from the white light, as where there is light, there cannot be darkness – within these artificial walls around the heart, the spark of divine light is surrounded by shadows of these walls. Realize that these walls are useless, but not only useless, but “protect” you from blessings as well, and tear them down! Now is the time! Greetings to you, and may you let the blessings into your heart – the blessings that surround you, brought to you by the angels of light! Amen. Amen. Amen.
Forty-four mayors and city officials in major municipalities and smaller communities have expressed support for a Federal Communications Commission proposal to subsidize broadband service for low-income Americans through the federal Lifeline program.
The mayors of Boston; Boulder, Colorado; and Seattle are among the city officials who cited the benefits of extending broadband to the Lifeline program. Other city leaders hail from smaller communities, including Mount Vernon, Washington; Davidson, North Carolina; and Yellow Springs, Ohio.
“Getting more low-income households online will help modernize delivery of public services – facilitating more responsive and effective governance while lowering overheads for local governments,” the local officials wrote to the FCC in a letter that was coordinated by the nonprofit organization Next Century Cities.
More importantly, expanded broadband connectivity will benefit school-age kids, the letter said, giving “them better opportunities to succeed.”
“The Universal Service Fund’s e-Rate program provides quality connectivity for students during the school day, but too many of them go home to households without broadband,” the local officials wrote. “This group of students is distinctly disadvantaged relative to their peers, but Lifeline modernization stands to meaningfully narrow the so-called ‘Homework Gap.’”
The FCC has proposed offering broadband subsidies under the 30-year-old Lifeline program, which was created to make basic phone service available for low-income Americans.
The broadband proposal – largely led by FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn – is intended to bridge the digital divide that still exists between the haves and the have-nots. According to the FCC, roughly 95 percent of households with incomes of at least $150,000 have broadband access, while only 48 percent of those earning less than $25,000 have home service.
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