They are all children of immigrants.

Hello and welcome to our Bluesky! You can learn more about our coalition on our website: www.fundourschoolsva.org You can see our priorities for the 2025 Virginia legislative session here: www.fundourschoolsva.org/2025-legisla...

According to mandated JLARC study (2024 @marcussimon.com resolution) on school book censorship, the book removals are concentrated in a small number of (hyperpartisan?) school districts, who mostly claim to be wrongly interpreting the recent law as giving them that authority.

This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon

Republicans quietly passed a first-of-its-kind national school choice program in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” but celebration among advocates was tempered after the Senate added a provi...

Our Town Hall event in Richmond is one week away - we hope to see you there!

time.com/7299514/bill... Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Devastate Public Schools | TIME

www.4publiceducation.org/post/the-4th... The 4th of July: My Country Tis of WE

Sens. Warner, Kaine accuse Trump administration of illegally withholding $108 million from Virginia K-12 schools Source: cvillerightnow.com

4 Public Education News- Graduation Edition 4publiceducation.org/so/75PSmiR7Z...

Day 2 of #teacherappreciationweek 🍎 Found this 1866 gem in the Valley of the Shadow archives, educator John Scott in 🗺️ Augusta Co, VA: valley.newamericanhistory.org/letters/A7114

In spite of the push to vouchers, Josh Cowen's latest newsletter has an accurate perspective: "All of this means that right-wing billionaires don’t always win—even when it comes to their GOP allies. It’s possible to delay and even stop the so-called inevitable.

Trump's Insane War on Science - We can understand why Kennedy wants to destroy science: it has an annoying tendency to undercut his pet conspiracy theories: but the American President? dianeravitch.net/2025/04/29/t... via @dianeravitch #PoliticalSuicide

These 2 Virginia universities join 220 higher-ed leaders condemning federal overreach Source: The Progress-Index

We have to pay attention and address this. www.teenvogue.com/story/fsu-sh...

In the U.S. 62 million people are of Hispanic heritage. There are almost 40 million people who identify as bi-racial, and that's only one aspect of Diversity. Denying Diversity is denying reality. www.4publiceducation.org/post/demandi...

Nice to see. We do too.

Workforce Development is not new. The Chambers of Commerce have been lobbying for workforce supply chain as Education policy for years. A plan called the 3E Readiness Framework in VA is an embedding of that policy which narrows student choices in high school & beyond. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Northern Virginia counties are still protecting students from in school seizure, but other parts of Virginia and other states are not as safe. theconversation.com/ice-can-now-...

Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward Source: The Associated Press

April 9 Updates, State and Federal and Action Alerts 4publiceducation.org/so/ebPNSbeOU...

#VirginiaLegislatorsRock!

“Poor doesn’t have a color” www.propublica.org/article/regi...

Is there any debauched use of children Florida’s administration won’t do?

Donald Trump declared these kids would not be allowed to play the concert they had earned. The Marine's Own retirees showed us why Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are not just important, they are what we stand for as Americans. Watch! youtu.be/lhwS06U1SnA?...

The state education department has missed several deadlines for sending reports to the state legislature and is yet to publish teaching materials for the new history standards that the department

GOP bill to bar immigrant kids without legal status from Tennessee public schools advances tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/12/g...

At their March 12 business meeting, the School Board of Alachua County voted to appeal the Charter School Review's Commission decision to approve a conversion c…

I said what I said because it’s true. We need fighters.