Achieve Learning and Resource Center – AchieveLearning.org

Achieve Learning and Resource Center is based in Richmond to cater to that communities tutoring needs. Founded by Dr. Juan Sanchez, his wife Evelyn Sanchez, and myself this year, our plan is to create an institution for educational tutoring in an area that is normally under represented in the tutoring market.

Hold the Rope Scholarship Fund – HTRScholarshipFund.org

The Hold The Rope Scholarship Fund was created by a group of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences, but with a common desire to help those that help others. Our focus is on recognizing and commending students in grades six through twelve that demonstrate courage, compassion and commitment to helping others.

It has come to my attention that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning to cut state employee budgets to minimum wage BUT not California minimum wage, but the federal minimum wage at $6.55.

Americans, especially those who live in California which has always had high cost of living, cannot afford to live on minimum wage. Please join me, and the millions of others who will send an e-mail to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/StopArnoldNow

PS. For those who think this won’t accomplish nothing, you are wrong. I have been told by politicians that most make their decisions based upon the ammount of phone calls, letters, etc. that they have received.

Please take 1 minute out of your life and fill out a TINY form.

Thank you,
Gilbert Sanchez

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I finally got my laser etched moleskien today from Modfly!

I bought the Coffee Steam Large/Ruled for Jessica, and the Coffee Spill Small/Ruled for me. The artist Susan Rudat does some amazing artwork. The Coffee Steam is awesome, and definitly needs to be seen on the large one to appreciate all the details.

I know there is a huge moleskin following. I used to own a small/comic style one but I gave that to my cousin who is a much better artist. I decided to go with a Ruled version because I often want something to jot down notes with.

So far I only have a personal journal entry (which I’m debating on continuing) but I’m wondering I should turn it into a portable notepad…

Any suggestions are welcomed!

PS – I’m level 4 moving 5ish on Moleskine Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide

Mozilla is trying to set the highest World Record for Most Downloaded software in 1 day.

Read more on this event, and pledge to download: visit
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

On April 21 st college students, professors, counselors throughout the state, started they’re day before the sun rose. They loaded into buses, vans, and carpooled from they’re campuses, headed for the state capital. All from different, schools, disciplines, backgrounds and class standings, they came together marching from Raley field to the state capitol, united by their concerns for the value of they’re education. Or from Governor Schwarzenegger’s perspective, the “devalue” of education. As of February the Governor sent out his 2008/2009 proposed budget for the state, cutting 4.8 billion from education.

As a recently transferred student from San Jose City College to San Francisco State University, this for me translates to less classes offered, an extended graduation date, possibly no financial aid(Cal-Grants will also be cut) and altogether a dim outlook on my future. Some of my peers are already experiencing the first wave of cuts. A friend of mine was explain that she may not get into the credential program she applied for, as a result of the cuts, the program will only be able to accept fifty applicants. This is a prime example of the trickle down effect, specifically in education. Less resources in higher education equals less qualified teachers which raises the teacher per student ratio.

As you can see, not only is higher education getting hit hard, but K-12 will be taking some extreme blows as well. Sports, music and various extra-curricular activities will be gone, schools will have to be shut down, class sizes will increase. Its bad enough that within the past three years districts have already reduced school days, I see more and more kids on the streets as early as noon. It seems that every year education becomes less of a right and more of a privilege. So my question is, what will happen to these kids, whose future has already been compromised? Where will they go, with nothing to do? Will college be attainable for them, or even be considered as an opportunity? How can we maintain an economical flow if there are less professionals in the work place, because they’re two to five classes away from graduation but can’t afford tuition? The cuts to education for the 2008/2009 fiscal year are much too sever and can cripple California’s economy.

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