Yep, after hovering around 17-21% for a decade, the 2024-2025 standardized test refusal rates statewide in NY dropped to 12% as parents know less or care less about the unscientific nature of corporate tests, now fully on screens.
syracuse.com/schools/2026/0… @dianeravitch.bsky.social
Saw you call out all those AIPAC recipients!
WORSE THAN WATERGATE; And Lutnick is exposed baldly in the Epstein files, misrepresenting his relationship after the pedo conviction. Lowest approvals on Trump, no support for war and armed federal agents expanding outposts.
UK + Norway charged former senior leaders but this a Taco Tuesday here.
WHAT DID WE LEARN? Epstein’s correspondence with Joel Klein shows how billionaires control curriculum in NY schools, and how they use edu-philanthropy including charter school donations to sanitize their sullied reputations:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...
Students this week walked out of White Plains, East Ramapo, Spring Valley and Nyack high schools to protest ICE in Westchester and Rockland counties.
AMERICANS can we circle back to this👆policy of nabbing immigrants + asylum seekers at hospitals when someone dies because they didn’t want to go to a hospital?
GOON SQUAD: Trump WANTS these ICE agents to break the law so they are radicalized with potential charges hanging over their heads by Jan 6, 2029 when the next election is to be certified.
Just spoke to a Kindergarten teacher: all students in her NYC school got DOE laptops to take home.
How do taxpayers feel about this?
Hundreds of NYC Parents, teachers and privacy advocates are signing a petition asking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for a 2-year moratorium on AI in NYC classrooms. They are using children to train their for-profit learning models while datamining everyone. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
Hundreds of NYC Parents, teachers and privacy advocates are signing a petition asking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for a 2-year moratorium on AI in NYC classrooms. They are using children to train their for-profit learning models while datamining everyone. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
And New Orleans. And everywhere students are cherry-picked to game test scores.
Art is the reflective conscious of society, creatively turning life experiences (including our darkest tragedies) into entertainment, into lessons and sometimes into incredible investments.
INVESTING IN BABY BRAINS: @errollouis.bsky.social talks @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social with @shaelsuransky.bsky.social who proposes class size reduction via 1-yr teacher trainee residencies, now NYS-funded only at $30M + benefits of professionalizing birth-through-five education ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
THIS IS BAD: Trump “de-professionalizes” nurses, social workers + a list of careers by eliminating access to higher ed tuition/lending as part of the OBBBA bill supported by every Republican
“LOCAL CONTROL” OBLITERATED IN FL: Shocking report about charter billionaire Ken Griffin’s move to FL, giving obscene sums of $4M to House Speaker + $15M to DeSantis in a brazen quid-pro-quo to defund public schools, outspending even the FL privatization vultures: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Republicans have the biggest part to play in this: First, do you agree the evidence proving this was in fact Tren de Aragua must be vetted?
Next, are you publicly pronouncing that presidents are no longer bound by habeas corpus?
Both of these are yes or no questions.
Same for Republicans rage tweeting “communist” and “terrorist” all day. They don’t realize it’s having the opposite effect on New Yorkers who detest Trumpism.
Never once do they mention any policy to help middle class families.
My NYC school told afterschool club teachers they have to reapply for approval after January because there may not be funding.
Notice the sensationalism instead of journalism? They don’t quote proven educators with competing arguments on the gifted policy, they just say “the issue is fraught”, quote a few non-educators + remind everyone of wide racial disparity. How about educating instead of outraging/frustrating readers?
CALLED OUT ON SNOPES: Fahmy’s claim Zohran will “end all misdemeanors” spread like wildfire, but examined by @snopes, they found nothing to indicate this was the case, saying Fahmy’s headline is based on conflation with DSA’s platform.
Maybe it’s you
youtu.be/wy5ILl-7bBg?...
MYTH-BUSTING: The conservative American Enterprise Institute explains why the majority of Jewish New Yorkers support @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while bending over backwards to avoid mentioning current events in Gaza.
Democrats, look at Buttigieg, read the room!
portside.org/2025-08-13/d...
SOCIAL ENGINEERING: Zuckerberg integrated his children’s school, touted “diverse” population to surrounded neighbor, picking + choosing his custom made population, all while making your kids’ school a test-prep assembly line with Gates, Bloomberg, Koch, Waltons. @badassteachersbats.bsky.social
Cuomo as governor allowed tens of thousands of rent-controlled + rent-stabilized units to disappear in NYC. (Source: Brad Lander) Cuomo rejected many affordable housing proposals over the years.
Only now —competing with Zohran— does he pretend to care? Means-testing for affordable housing??
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MAJOR AI FAIL: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Sun Times and others published an AI-generated Summer Reading List that included books that don’t exist. No one caught it, no one checked even the basic facts.
If this is the adults imagine what schools will face! www.instagram.com/reel/DJ4o_lh...
I tried explaining this☝️ to a pro-Israel account on X, but they say Israelis are exempt from white supremacy because Jews aren’t white. I don’t think the cabbies got the memo….
BILLIONAIRES FIRST: In June, Mike Bloomberg gave Cuomo’s SuperPAC $5 million to continue his decade-long attack on public schools. Cuomo + Bloomberg shortchanged schools by billions while drastically increasing funding for charter schools.
These guys have a long record on education + it’s awful!
☝️This echoes what pollsters are seeing nationwide - people want to see more fight against the regime
America First was Hitler’s slogan. Who is rounding the vulnerable up into camps right now? Teaching kids accurate history from primary sources makes kids love the country more, you’re suggesting we lie to cover up the child rape of Jefferson for example?
