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To all Awesome Incredible Education Support Professional thank you for everything you do inside the Classroom and outside of classroom @neatoday.bsky.social @arizonaea.bsky.social

Congratulations to my former Prek student for her high school graduation Jarrell ISD. Valeria is Bilingual, Biliterate and Bicultural. #PublicSchoolsProud #2025Graduate #DREAMBig #BilingualismIsASuperPower

My heart is full of pride & joy! I attended my former prek student’s undergraduate graduation at Texas State. He was in 2006 class in @austinisd.bsky.social He is a proud bilingual civil engineer. #DREAMBig #EnglishLearner #PrekWorks #PublicSchoolsProud #BilingualismIsASuperPower

PODCAST: What California can learn from Texas about bilingual education We visit an elementary school and a middle school in Austin, Texas, where students learn in Spanish and English and take the AP Spanish exam in 8th grade.

Excellent podcast highlighting master educators from AustinISD‬⁩ about dual language immersion and the power of bilingualism #PublicSchoolsProud #BilingualismIsASuperPower edsource.org/podcast/what...

“Hands Off” 04-05-25 Volusia County, Florida rally. CTJE member on left supporting teachers and students’ right to read.
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Coalition including ELC sues Trump Administration for Dismantling U.S. Department of Education, Hurting All Students Coalition including ELC sues Trump Administration for Dismantling U.S. Department of Education, Hurting All Students

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Report Release: Fulfilling Promises: What America’s School Boards… School Board Partners supports elected leaders through a competitive fellowship and teaches actionable skills through a national community of practice,…

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Know your school board candidate and vett them thoroughly before voting.

Education and Hierarchies At her newsletter, Jennifer Berkshire has an excellent post this week-- I'm here to say two things.

The idea of public education as a means of uplift for every student, undergirded by a system that protects and honors the civil rights of every person simply has no place in a certain view of the nation. And that certain view is currently in charge. #publicschoolsproud

Two more Democrats have joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus The group, which champions reason-based policies and opposes discrimination against atheists, now stands at 24 members

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Rachel Maddow amazed as GOP "caved" after top Dem "screams his frickin' head off" - LGBTQ Nation "Don't let anybody tell you that yelling and making a fuss doesn't matter or that journalism doesn't matter."

“Every single time you don’t try, you lose. But sometimes when you try, you win.” R. Maddow #publicschoolsproud

McMahon's Three Convictions Linda McMahon is now the latest in a long line of deeply unqualified Secretaries of Education, and she has hit the ground running with her memo about the department's Final Destination Solution Missio...

Excerpt: Are schools meant to ignore diversity and pretend that all students are the same? If equity is bad, how does one propose that inequity be administered? If schools are opposed to inclusion, who is meant to be excluded, and how should that exclusion be managed? #publicschoolsproud

America’s Censored Classrooms 2024 - PEN America America's Censored Classrooms 2024 explores how lawmakers are refining educational censorship through informal intimidation and pressure.

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Trans students win "major victory" as court upholds ban on outing LGBTQ+ students - LGBTQ Nation The school districts said that being gender non-conforming has "an adverse impact" on students so parents need to be notified. The judges said no.

Trans students win “major victory” as court upholds ban on outing LGBTQ+ students.
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North Dakota Republicans push bill to force "Intelligent Design" in science classrooms The bill would force public school science teachers to lie to students about the strength of evolution

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More WTF? Co-Presidents Trump and Musk's proposed elimination of the U.S. Dept. of Ed. would compound Ohio's continued screwing of poor kids, especially poor, minority kids

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Abstinence Until Marriage? Coming to a School Board Near You. – AccountabaloneySearchToggle MenuPreviousContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinue...

Public Schools, Duval County Florida: Abstinence?
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Trump Nominates Controversial Penny Schwinn for Deputy Ed Sec President Donald Trump has nominated former Tennessee Ed chief, the controversy-steeped Penny Schwinn, for the position of US deputy secretary of education, a post that requires Senate confirmation…

US Deputy Sec. of Ed. Nominee Penny Schwinn and members of her team were grilled for almost two hours in TN over the decision to bypass a competitive bid process to hire the Florida-based company — and for twice the amount budgeted for…
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ICYMI: Here Comes The Arctic Air (1/19) Here at the Institute we are hunkering down and preparing for a blast of arctic air over the next two days.

Read Peter Greene’s list of articles on the subject of public school education and share them. #publicschoolsproud
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NCAC Recommends Policy Improvements to Volusia County Schools in Florida - National Coalition Against Censorship The National Coalition Against Censorship has written to Volusia County Schools in Florida to recommend changes to their board policy.  NCAC encouraged the School Board to revise their challenge poli...

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Survey Shows Broad Support For Public Schools Voter support for public schools over private school vouchers runs deep and across party lines, according to a new survey from All4Ed.

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Just Don't Call Me Late To Dinner But him, her and they are just fine by me!

Attacks on LGBTQIA+ Title IX
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Report Exposes How Charter Schools Are Doomed to Fail – at Taxpayers’ Expense From Bucks County Beacon

Excerpt: But in practice, it turns out that charters close down for several other reasons. The leading reason for charter closures is low enrollment.
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Indiana Considers Dissolving Public Schools if more than 50% of eligible students were enrolled outside, that public school district would be dissolved and replaced with a charter system governed by an unelected board.

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West Virginia is Closing its Public Schools.  Your State May Be Next. - Public Voices For Public Schools Seven schools will close in the next few years due to declining enrollment, joining the 53 that closed in the past five years.

This is a cautionary tale for NC. Currently, only public schools are accountable for how tax dollars are spent. Moving toward privatization and loosely regulated charter schools makes education a profiteering scam. #nced #ncpublicschools #publicschoolsPROUD
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