| # | Name | Comments |
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| 751 | Debbie Copeland, LPN school nurse | As a school nurse, I know first hand that the only health care that some children receive is at school. Whether it be from the school nurse, the speech pathologist, or PT/OT, cutting funds from schools is hurting our children and the employees who are there to help them. This money has enabled me to buy supplies for my nurses office that we were not able to afford before. It has enabled me to meet the medical needs of more students who wouldn't have received medical care otherwise. |
| 752 | Judy Frye | |
| 753 | Lona sipka | Please add my name to your petition. |
| 754 | Anonymous | |
| 755 | Janet Martindale | Please do not cut the much need federal funds from the school districts for Administrative Claiming and Transportation. School Districts cannot afford to lose this money. |
| 756 | Susaan Crawford | |
| 757 | Dean Langdon | |
| 758 | Judy Whalen | Think about what will happen to some of the neediest children. Losing transportation would be a great hardship for the families of special ed students.
Illinois |
| 759 | Robert Moran | I strongly oppose these cuts. As a special education teachers, these at risk students need all the assistance they can get. They live in poverty. |
| 760 | Danna Ready | |
| 761 | Rindi Janda | |
| 762 | Kathleen Greider | |
| 763 | Linda Duytschaver | |
| 764 | Laura Szubka | As a special education administrator, I feel that the current move to eliminate medicaid funding will only harm our students and our district as a whole. Illinois, as a whole, has an excellent track record with billing for services received - one of the best in the country. I don't understand why this would be eliminated if it's being properly spent on helping to promote the success and well being of students. |
| 765 | Susan Goffrier | |
| 766 | Jennifer C. Schmuck | |
| 767 | Debora Lindbeck | |
| 768 | Lisa Witte | |
| 769 | Krista Cooper | |
| 770 | Sharon Smith | |
| 771 | Eleanora E. Hendrix | |
| 772 | Mike Weger, Ph.D. | The real and growing cost of educating the most fragile and often medically needy members of our society has long been underfunded. This will further burden a school system badly in need of support instead of additional challenges as they must provide the services for which they bill Medicaid. Reducing the funding does NOT reduce their liability to provide all services as delineated on each student's Individual Education Plan. |
| 773 | Cheryl Allen | Medicaid cuts would have serious impact on reimbursement for our school district. I oppose these cuts! |
| 774 | Regina Walk | |
| 775 | Bonita K. Wilson | Okay, fellow democrats. Let's get the ball rolling for the people of the United States. |
| 776 | Debra l Johnson | |
| 777 | Wendy Wagner | |
| 778 | Andrea Angelo | |
| 779 | Amber Krause | |
| 780 | Angela Shaw | |
| 781 | Steven Fink | Our school district relies on the Medicaid funds each year to support special education services. |
| 782 | Carolian Johnson | Missouri |
| 783 | James Parise | Our school district's special needs children will be hurt by this legislation. As a twenty year administrator working with special education students I can only pray that Congress will not act on these proposed cuts. |
| 784 | Jodell Plavak | I feel that this is ridiculous. These kids obviously need this or they wouldn't end up as well as they do. |
| 785 | Ellin Lotspeich | |
| 786 | Kathleen Hartman RN | We have many students with significant health problems that require health care at school. These services are made possible by Medi-Cal reimbersements. Please do not cut the sorce of funding for these services! |
| 787 | Anonymous | |
| 788 | Roger Yochem | Why does the government always try and take funds that are NECESSARY? |
| 789 | Anonymous | Irvine Unified
Irvine CA |
| 790 | Roxana Laurin | Services such as these help children to be able to learn. I have used these services to get children eye examinations necessary to obtain glasses and also documentation for services for the visually impaired. Without this these students would not be able to learn. |
| 791 | Alisa Burroughs | |
| 792 | Margaret Fichtner | |
| 793 | Verna Reyes | Waukegan IL, 60085 |
| 794 | Tracy Cole | California |
| 795 | Anonymous | Too many unfunded mandates already cripple our schools...these schools must be reimbursed or all the children suffer as budgets must be cut from other areas to fully fund the special needs children.Maryland |
| 796 | Anonymous | |
| 797 | Camille Cervantes | This is an imporant progam that goes to help the neediest children in the system. Cutting it reduces the services to these students. California |
| 798 | Diana Read | Please don't make cuts or changes to this vital program. |
| 799 | Felicia D. Safir | Millions of school age children will be without school nursing services. EPSDTs performed at schools for students without insurance and poor athletes and homeless students will cease. Mental health services will not be provided. Communicable diseases will not be controled at the school level. Immunizations will not be monitored nor immunization clinics will be held at schools. At-risk services for students with drug, alcohol, tobacco, or pregnant teens will not occur. Medical services for the uninsured homeless and migrant students will not occur. Services for the obese, diabetic, and asthmatic students will cease.
Schools will have an increase in absents due to illness. Test scores will also drop because of ill students. There will be a decrease in the follow through of student victims of abuse. |
| 800 | Lois Cardarelli | |