Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social · 10d

Across Chicago and the suburbs, relatives, friends and even strangers are shopping and caring for isolated immigrants as reports of immigration arrests intensify. Story w/ @medicenambi.bsky.social and @araceligomezaldana.bsky.social
www.wbez.org/immigration/... @wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com

A daughter becomes a lifeline for her parents as immigration enforcement intensifies in Chicago

President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign is forcing some immigrants to isolate at home. But relatives, friends and strangers are stepping up to try to keep them connected.

www.wbez.org

1 4 4

Gabriel Rodriguez @gabrielruns.bsky.social · 23d

New pub alert! During my time in Iowa, it was a pleasure to learn from youth who battled and wrestled with how to bring a more equitable and just school. Check out the article via the link below:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

1 1 2

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social · Sep 2

In today's @chicago.suntimes.com we tell the story of a 16-year-old Palestinian teen who has spent his summer in the Chicago area learning how to walk again. But he's likely one of the last children from Gaza to be allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment: chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/...

Palestinian teen injured in Gaza tries to walk again in Chicago suburbs

But the 16-year-old could be one of the last children from Gaza allowed in for treatment after the United States paused visas for Palestinians.

chicago.suntimes.com

2 2

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 29

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

15 370 820

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · Aug 7

Indiana officials confirmed 1,200 empty beds at a rural prison are now available for the federal government to house detained immigrants.
trib.al/CwzBdm0

New Indiana immigrant detention center could triple ICE beds in Chicago region

Indiana officials confirmed 1,200 empty beds at a rural prison are now available for the federal government to house detained immigrants.

trib.al

2 9 11

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is a really interesting look at how a PAC is targeting residents (many who are probably Latino) in wards led by progressive Latino alders. I've been getting texts in Spanish from this PAC in recent days about the grocery tax. thetriibe.com/2025/06/whos...

Who’s behind those texts slamming Mayor Johnson and some progressive alders for their ‘snap curfew’ vote? • The TRiiBE

A round of political text messages are circulating in Chicago after the mayor’s veto on a youth curfew ordinance. Experts say these campaigns are only going to increase from here.

thetriibe.com

1

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Jul 12

“In the last school year, schools opened with an estimated 55,000 teaching vacancies … States like Utah, Nevada, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida were the hardest hit, with Arizona leading at less than 44 teachers per 1,000 students.”

https://trib.al/yB1Ajuc

American Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good

The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession.

trib.al

11 51 93

Gabriel Rodriguez @gabrielruns.bsky.social · Jun 16

Grad students or recent grads doing ed policy work should consider applying for this great opportunity!

Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · Jun 13

🎉 Applications for the 2025 Just Education Policy Institute are now open! 🎉
Applications are due Jun 30. JEP 2025 will be held Oct 15-18, 2025 in Washington, DC. JEP helps developing scholars learn how, as a community, to conduct research that advances racial justice in education policy.

1 3

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jun 12

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

280 1.6K 3.3K

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · May 13

Two Saturdays ago, a high school teacher and I got 11 high school students together with 9 preservice teachers and had a big conversation about school and teaching and learning. Then, we drafted a collective op-ed. It was published this morning!

www.news-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Our Turn | A call to 'strengthen the human connections at the heart of education'

An open letter, from an inter-generational mix of 23 Urbana High School students, preservice teachers and supportive faculty.

www.news-gazette.com

4 8

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · May 7

I’m excited to share a new publication that was released online today and will be part of the History of Education Quarterly’s forthcoming print issue! #HistEd #EduSky

Resisting Termination: Native American College Student Activism and the National Indian Youth Council, 1953-1970 | History of Education Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Resisting Termination: Native American College Student Activism and the National Indian Youth Council, 1953-1970

www.cambridge.org

1 4 21

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · Apr 28

New op-ed in the Chicago Sun Times

“When someone accepts bureaucratic terms for human displacement, they become desensitized, seeing figures instead of faces, cases instead of lives being upended.”

chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Dehumanizing language used on America's enslaved is still spoken today

The words Donald Trump and his underlings use for immigrants strip away their humanity and reduce them to dangerous caricatures worthy of fear rather than constitutional protection.

chicago.suntimes.com

4 8

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · Mar 27

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

530 7.6K 23K

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Truthout @truthout.org · Mar 24

A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after he won an Oscar. Israeli soldiers then blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him. His current condition and location is unknown.

Israeli Settler Mob Attacks “No Other Land” Co-Director Hamdan Ballal

Israeli soldiers blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him.

buff.ly

13 320 440

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social · Mar 24

Once held up by Dems as a beacon of progressive governance, the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults program has been put on the chopping block. And many who have come to depend on the healthcare coverage aren't sure what they'll do: chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202... w/ @mitchtrout.bsky.social

Health coverage for Chicago area immigrants jeopardized in Gov. Pritzker’s budget proposal

Nearly 33,000 Illinoisans without legal status — including 22,000 in Cook County — could be left without health care if lawmakers approve Gov. JB Pritzker's budget proposal to eliminate a costly progr...

chicago.suntimes.com

2 4

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · Mar 18

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

1.6K 7.4K 37K

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social · Mar 18

“Is that what it means to be a criminal — to wake up early and go to work and look after your family?”
Suburban Chicago family pleads for ICE to release father, local business owner
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Suburban Chicago family pleads for ICE to release father, local business owner

Abel Orozco Ortega was among 22 people from the Chicago area whose arrests by federal immigration agents violate a federal settlement, according to attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center...

chicago.suntimes.com

1 1 1

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · Feb 26

hey teachers working for social justice, check out this rad writing fellowship supported by $5K/year! www.edsurge.com/research/gui...

EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship - EdSurge Collections

Over the years, EdSurge has explored how school models, instructional practices and the experiences of students and educators are changing. We examine ...

www.edsurge.com

1 6 7

Gabriel Rodriguez @gabrielruns.bsky.social · Feb 26

Not good at all

NPR @npr.org · Feb 26

Peggy Carr, a federal official who leads one of the country's most extensive student testing programs, known as The Nation's Report Card, was placed on administrative leave.

Trump suspends the head of 'The Nation's Report Card'

Peggy Carr, a federal official who leads one of the country's most extensive student testing programs, known as The Nation's Report Card, was placed on administrative leave.

www.npr.org

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · Feb 21

Illinois schools chief tells districts to follow state law, not Trump threats
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/21/illinois-schools-chief-says-keep-teaching-black-history-after-trump-letter/

State schools chief tells schools: Don’t stop teaching certain subjects because of Trump

Illinois State Superintendent Tony Sanders tells schools to continue teaching subjects like Black History and to keep educating students regardless of their immigration status, despite a recent letter from the U.S. Department of Education threatening federal school funding.

www.chalkbeat.org

6 27 92

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · Feb 20

Here’s the second op-ed!. www.newsweek.com/its-2025say-...

“…today's rhetoric proposes that a substandard education is a small cost for maintaining racism, homophobia, trans violence, and antiblackness.”

It's 2025—Say No To Historic Racist Goals in U.S. Education | Opinion

Schools must be a place where students can question, debate, and think critically about the world around them. But the White House's K-12 executive order pushes the education system in the opposite di...

www.newsweek.com

9 17

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · Feb 18

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.

www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter

The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.

www.chronicle.com

2 53 93

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Education at Illinois @educationillinois.bsky.social · Feb 10

EPOL assistant professor Gabriel Rodriguez recently published his article in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. It is titled "Enacting Thick Solidarity Through Convivencia: Examining Relationships and Accountability in Research with Youth of Color."

More:

Rodriguez Pubishes Article on Accountability in Research with Youth of Color

blogs.illinois.edu

1 2

Reposted by Gabriel Rodriguez

Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social · Feb 5

When the feds arrived, a 26-yr-old started recording. They were searching for a relative. But instead arrested his dad who was just arriving from buying tamales. "I can't breathe. I got asthma. Call a lawyer," he heard his dad say
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social

Trump's immigration arrests in Chicago raise questions about 4th Amendment violations

President Donald Trump has said his administration is targeting dangerous criminals for immigration arrests, but attorneys working with those detained in Chicago say many do not have criminal records....

chicago.suntimes.com

5 2

Gabriel Rodriguez @gabrielruns.bsky.social · Jan 21

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/21/t...

Detained during dropoff? Trump approves immigration arrests at schools.

President Donald Trump has ended a decades-old policy that led federal agents to avoid making immigration arrests at schools. Some districts have vowed to shield their immigrant students and families ...

www.chalkbeat.org