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Amber Shields
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Teacher. Cat lady. Always looking for my next book. Surviving purely on naps.
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Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.
January 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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natebowling.com
K-12 ed policy is a place where most of what the incoming president wants to do is deeply unpopular, an exception is so-called "school choice."

Now is the time to figure out how you're going to explain to your community why vouchers are terrible public policy.

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Here’s how the hustle works: most vouchers don’t cover the full cost of private school tuition, so they’re useless for low income students. Families already paying for private education are the real winners, pocketing a taxpayer subsidy for an expense they were already shouldering. Vouchers effectively siphon money from public school budgets because of per pupil funding formulas. Public schools further suffer because as students leave, their fixed costs—salaries, utilities, maintenance—don’t shrink. The result? Already under-resourced schools are gutted further.
December 8, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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One headline to rule them all
THE GUARDIAN: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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oaklitcoalition.bsky.social
Honoring Dr. King’s legacy today. Let’s keep showing up for students, for liberation, and for each other. Every day.
January 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM