mmacintyre

I am MMacIntyre from the state of Minnesota and I am in the Republican Party.

The Congress person I most agree with is Amy Klobuchar. Her state page link adress is:

[]  I agree with Amy in various places such as maintaing and improving education in public schools and improving safty for the common people. I think that one way American economy will improve is if more students are able to graduate high school and then continue on to college. Upon completing college, there will be even more jobs aviliable for them to enter into. I also strongly agree that safty for the common people will help to improve many lives and prevent unnessasary harmful events such as shootings.

**Five Interesting facts about Minnesota are:** -The state bird is a loon -Minnesota is home to the Mall of America -Minnesota is well know for agriculture, lumber, and mining -There are 15,291 lakes in Minnesota, making it the state of many lakes -Minnesota means: water that reflects the sky

**Five Interesting facts about Minnesota that realate to my issue are:** **-**The uneployment rate is raising 1.48% every year in this state **-**Minnesota is ranked 9th in education amoung the U.S.making it one of the top states for schooling -Only 68% of Minnesota students graduate high school and continue on to college -1/2 of all jobs in the state require a college education, which many kids today are not recieving -Education in Minnesota is centered around the younger kids rather than the older ones,giving more funding to the kids who need less. This disallows the highschoolers to have the some supplies and classes they should have.

<span style="color: #1cb0b0; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**3 issues that are most imprtant to me are:** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1.) Education-I think that more students should be graduating high school and continuing on to college. This would reduce the amount of citizens without jobs and help to improve the economy. In order for this to happen, parents and schools would need to push students harder, 'raise the bar.' Parents could help to encourage kids when they are still young by letting them experience a few jobs that may be education needy. Currently, America is not the top in education because students do not push themselves very hard, but rather do what they have learned is sufficent. I will be doing this as my issue becasue I feel this needs to be improved the most. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2.) Envornment (endangered species)- I belive we should try to preserve the enviornmet and protect the plants and animals that are endangered. If we continue to kill them at the same rate as we are now, we will soon destroy whole ecosystems. If you kill, for say, all the wolves in america, you than overpopulate the rabbit species, who then eat all the plants. When the plants are exinct, the rabbits will starve to death and become extinct too. By just killing one species, you kill many others. We should be more causios of our actions and try to fix them some by protecting more animals. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3.) Illegal Imigration-Imigration should be cheaper so that others can come to the U.S. We are all imigrants too, so they should be able to come here. Most Americans have some foreighen decent. America was meant to be a 'mixing bowl' with a verity of culture, but now this is discouraged. We should, inorder to keep taxing more even through out the U.S., make any immegration legal as long as they pay a small fee to enter and gain citizenship. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">

<span style="color: #1cb0b0; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">My Bill: HB64 Stay to Play <span style="color: #1cb0b0; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Link: http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/HB64 <span style="color: #130202; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"> There are many problems in America today, but one of the biggest is the education in Public High schools. Many students no longer want to go to class, so they eventually drop out. When students drop out, they never find jobs that are highly rewarding. One way to fix this problem is to create classes that are both fun to be in, but are also educational for a students future. The Stay to Play bill does just that. The Stay and Play bill would help keep fine art programs in public schools to encourge students to stay in school and take the classes they enjoy. This would decrease the dropout rate by keeping the students in school to take classes they are good at. This could include staying in school in order to play a sport, play an instument, or to take culinary classes. These are the classes that can earn students scholorships and help them to their future careers. This bill will allow schools to create and maintain fine arts programs that will intrest the students. When students are not good at regular classes, but are good at fine arts, they will do better in schools if they have the right classes. The Stay to Play allows students to have these classes by providing funding to the schools fine arts programs. If the schools have more money that can be used for fine arts classes, then they will make these classes. I think this bill deserves support becasue it helps schools and students around the nation. It solves more than one issue in America today, by creating more jobs to help the economy and allowing students to earn more scholorships that will get them into collage. It is not too costly costing up to $28,874,400 after two years of being in use. For all the benifits that is will bring our Nation, this bill should be supported.

<span style="color: #1cb0b0; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">10 Resource Sites Used:

-Coulson, Andrew J. "School Choices." //A Citizen's Guide to Education Reform -- School Choices//. Andrew J. Coulson, 2003. Web. 16 May 2011. [].

- National Education Association. "NEA - Education Funding." //NEA - NEA Home//. NEA, 2003. Web. 16 May 2011. [].

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">- ECS. "Developing Stratagies to Meet Complication & Workfource Challenges." //Http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/92/36/9236.pdf//. ECS, Apr. 2011. Web. Apr. 2011. []// //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">- Republican National Comittee. "Education Means a More Competitive America." //RNC: Republican National Committee | RNC: Republican National Committee | GOP//. Republican National Comittee, 2008. Web. 16 May 2011. [].//

//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">-Obama, Barack. "Reforming No Child Left Behind." //Democrats.org//. Barack Obama, 11 Mar. 2011. Web. 16 May 2011. [].//

//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">- Supreme Court. "Committee For Public Education v. Nyquist | The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law." //The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law | U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument Recordings, Case Abstracts and More//. Supreme Court, 5 June 1973. Web. 16 May 2011. [].//

//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">- Biggert, Judy. "Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2011." //THOMAS (Library of Congress)//. Rep. Judy Biggert, 23 Mar. 2011. Web. 16 May 2011. [].//

//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">- Hawkins, August F. ": Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988." //LII | Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School//. August F. Hawkins, 28 Apr. 1988. Web. 16 May 2011. [].//

//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">- Kin..., Emily Roosa. "If Only Federal Government's Approach to High Schools Mirrored Media Coverage." //Alliance for Excellent Education//. Emily Roosa Kin, 23 Sept. 2010. Web. 16 May 2011. [].//

//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">- Chandler, Kathy. "A Good or Bad IDEA? The Reauthorization of the IDEA." //Welcome to the University of Delaware//. Kathy Chandler, Autumn 2003. Web. 16 May 2011. [].