JHlosek

__Jessica Hlosek__ 
 * __Representative of North Carolina__:** [|Bradley Miller] **Democrat**

**Interesting Facts of North Carolina** · Raleigh is the state captial of North Carolina. · There are 13 Representatives of North Carolina. · Beverly Perdue, D is the Govenor. · Entered the union on November 21, 1789 · The state motto is //To be rather than to seem.//

· 50 million students are going to approximately 99,000 public elementary and secondary schools for the fall · 12% of elementary and high school students enrolled in private schools this fall. ·North Carolina Ranks Among Nation's Top 2 States for Pre-K Education · 453 billion was spent on education this year In 2003 · 64% of high school students went off to college.
 * Facts that relate to education**

**Issues of North Carolina**
 * Equality-North Carolina works on a broud range of equality issues. Issues including elections for the states electoral work. Also another problem is having safe schools. It is not a very safe enviorment for discrimination, increased dropouts, and lower graduate rates.


 * Enviorment-North Carolina is a home to many rivers, lakes, and streams. These waters are used for many things including transportation and animal life, but these waters are threatened. We need to protect them from pollution and toxic leaks. We also need the presentation of our lands and mountains. This state needs polcies to increase the clean air, electricity, and fuel.


 * Health Care- Most states including North Carolina are troubling with the act of health care. The focus is too have more efficent health programs. We need to focus on the people being healthy instead of being sick. If we don't focus on more people being healthym then we are never going to get everyone healthy. By cutting down the costs and wastes, North Carolina can pottentially make health care more affordable and incredibly more accesible for families and buisnesses.

__My Bill-HB65__ The Bill I am sponsoring is under education. It is a bill on having no homework. I support this bill for many reasons. I support it because middle and high school students are at a great work of a significant amount of homework. The bill is focusing on the work of teachers jobs, student activity levels, and more. The teachers jobs are too teach in school, not handing out papers and expecting students to learn on their own. Plus, 90% of students admit that they have copied off another person's homework. Students also work on homework after school while they still have extracurricular activities. Some students also don't get enough excersice. This bill is to have students work on homework during school hours, then study the homework that they finished at home. This will develop future student study skills.

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