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Lauren Scholl
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jamellebouie.net
you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Oct 6
THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
Interesting. (And I’m not sure that’s a common-sense presumption; that seems very much like editorializing!)
lutzfernandez.bsky.social Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Sep 29
Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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amberwharding.bsky.social
Then-candidate Bowser called Mayor Gray's placement of homeless families in congregate settings "inhumane." She said she would never “treat our homeless families like emergency flood victims, housing them in city recreation centers.”
June 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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amberwharding.bsky.social
The last time DC placed homeless families in congregate settings, children wet their cots rather than risk going to the bathroom. Moms spent 1 night there and decided being physically abused was preferable to returning. @chmnmendelson.bsky.social @cmfrumin.bsky.social @mayorbowser.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.

I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
The people of Sackets Harbor—and especially the school administrators and teachers—should serve as an example for us all that resistance can work. You do not need to comply in advance. The Trump administration is powerful, but not invincible. This story is a reminder to journalists that reporting on things happening in the smallest places can have the largest impact. My hats off to the local journalists who first made noise about this miscarriage of justice. I feel fortunate that I could help amplify it, and that we can celebrate this small but powerful victory. And we can rest a little easier knowing the third grader will finally get to see the welcome home banner hung by classmates with love.
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
It is honestly wild to me that Republicans cooked up a bill that would prohibit D.C. from spending more than $1 billion of its own budget, devastating our city services out of pure spite, *and Senate Democrats might actually vote for it.* Utterly appalling. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
House spending bill would lead to $1B in D.C. cuts. Here’s what that means.
The bill, also known as a continuing resolution, now moves to the Senate, where D.C. officials hope Democrats will help them defeat the measure.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
I am not in the business of defending the status quo for how the Department of Education serves students with disabilities. The federal government never lived up to its promise to fully fund IDEA. It hasn't been reauthorized in two decades. I want it to work.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Linda McMahon and RFK Jr. could be a one-two punch for disabled students
The Education Department is an irreplaceable lifeline for students with disabilities.
www.msnbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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19thnews.org
"We saw this coming, even though we hoped it wouldn’t." Ellen Rosenblum, Oregon’s first woman attorney general, spoke with The 19th about efforts to challenge the new administration in court.
‘We saw this coming’: State attorneys general are ready for Trump 2.0
Ellen Rosenblum, Oregon’s first woman attorney general, spoke with The 19th about efforts to challenge the new administration in court.
19thnews.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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51st.news
A wonderful start to the new year! We did it! We're funded through the middle of 2025!
January 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM