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The weight of the buildup of unfunded mandates ultimately falls on the shoulders of local school districts.

You may be thinking to yourself: Come again? English please? 

"I feel like we don’t get to learn a lot about life lessons. They really don’t teach us a lot about that."

Another group has also recently become hyper criminalized, their everyday behavior now framed as a threat to public safety. That group is students, specifically those in inner-city public schools.

We Kentuckians are proud of our high standards. We are proud of the Common Core.

After the election, my school was filled with confusion, uncertainty and even fear. I was shocked and still trying to wrap my brain around the outcome of the election, but for some students at my school the election could possibly alter the course of their lives.

We had one period of ESL class everyday, and it cut into our regular schedule.

There is a saying in the world of disability advocacy. The saying is, “all means all”.I like the idea behind “all means all” because I definitely don’t like the reality of life as I often experience it.