On January 18, 2005 my sister Laryssa Veronika Falkowski was killed in a car accident only a block away from Hicksville High School during her senior year. 

Presently, New York Sate Education Department doesn't have a provision for posthumous high school diplomas.  This petition supports Laryssa''s Law so that any child who passes away while registered in a school in New York State should be recognized by a state issued high school diploma.  All families of children who pass away from the first day of kindergarten to the last day of twelfth grade, should receive a diploma acknowledging their child.