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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 1d

“If there are not people there to make sure the laws are followed, the laws are meaningless.”
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs

The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.

www.edweek.org

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

While all students deserve safe, welcoming schools for relevant, engaging learning, kids with special needs have a right to an education that meets those needs. Their civil rights are being abandoned. McMahon should be ashamed. Thank you to AFGE for exposing this. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 2d

The Republicans Didn’t Just Shut Down the Government, They Shut Out Our Most Vulnerable Children.

More here.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 6d

You should have responded with...

six seeeeeven

LOL!!
Middle school teacher here. I'm constantly saying, "I'm not your bro."

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 7d

I got free, front row tickets to a Dave Matthews Band concert because some woman, who followed my on IG, could not attend. I was the only person she knew who lived nearby, so she mailed them to me.
Maybe not great. But pretty good. 🤷‍♀️

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 9d

1986???
That thing must have been typed on a typewriter. She would have been lucky if it was electric and had a corrective ribbon. Footnotes and bibliographies were a whole thing.

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GeeRaffa @geeraffa.bsky.social · 11d

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 11d

You could show up to lunch at the local high school and find yourself two suspected gang members and any number of students in possession of marijuana. No helicopters needed. LOL!!

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San Diego Live Data @619sdld.bsky.social · 11d

San Diego military families, contractors face uncertainty during gov't shutdown

The government shutdown poses uncertainty for over 110,000 active duty military members and numerous government contractors in San Diego County, affecting their jobs and liv…

San Diego military families, contractors face uncertainty during gov't shutdown

There are more than 110,000 active duty service members in San Diego County. That number is even greater when it comes to those working as government contractors.

www.nbcsandiego.com

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Saad Asad @realsaadasad.bsky.social · 15d

San Diego County steps in to provide lawyers for 300 unaccompanied kids in immigration court after federal funding ends. Uses existing unused program funds.

Children shouldn't face deportation proceedings alone, period.

Supervisors vote to expand immigrant legal defense program

The vote expands the county program that began in 2021 to provide legal representation for migrant children appearing in immigration court.

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 13d

😂

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 14d

Lawrence O’Donnell: “Imagine crossing ten time zones to hear that.”

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 13d

Nothing. It has absolutely no meaning.
It is simply annoying. LOL!!!

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 13d

I'm a middle school teacher and deal with six seeeeeeven all day every day.
Was talking to my son who is coaching high school water polo. He said the high schoolers are all saying it too.
Then the 20 year old college son chimed in and said its at the college too. 🤦‍♀️
We can't escape it.

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 14d

My husband works at UCSD. They have treated people who have sustained serious injuries from falling over the border wall. Are we really the kind of country who will just let them lay there and die? That is absolutely inhumane. Shame on our government.

Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 15d

These are high ranking officers. They don't clap. That's not how the military works.

Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 15d

This is one reason I volunteered for car pool. The things you hear when kids/friends are in the car together. LOL!! Just smile and drive. :)

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 17d

So exhausting..

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 19d

Birth to 2014 =debts via RCA
2014 to 2020 = sins via PCUSA
2020 to present = trespasses via UMC

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 21d

Is he using middle schoolers for speech writers now?
Skibidi toliet riz.
That's cap.
I'm about to crash out.
Six seeeeeeeven.

Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 22d

The day is still young. LOL!!

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AFT @aft.org · 24d

"When we strengthen our public schools and support our children’s teachers, we sustain the American dream and democracy itself."

Read more in @rweingarten.bsky.social's latest column.

Why Fascists Fear Teachers

Teachers are under siege not for anything they do wrong, but for what they do right.

www.aft.org

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 23d

I also was subject to the Thief in the Night series in middle school. Multiple times. At church and the Nazarene school I attended. I can still picture the ice cream cone melting on the sidewalk and the pan of boiling water on the stove.
Thankfully my parents did not buy into the rapture craze.

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