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@sanders.senate.gov Issues Report Criticizing Federal School Voucher Program
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Bernie Sanders Issues Report Criticizing Federal School Voucher Program
The federal school voucher program is part of President Donald Trumpâs âBig Beautiful Bill.â
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2026/01/29/bernie-sanders-issues-report-criticizing-federal-school-voucher-program/
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Robert Reich
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Arresting journalists. Fatally shooting protestors. Turning the military on citizens. Attempting to rig elections. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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Sherrilyn Ifill
3 days ago
This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I donât see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?
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Some examples of folks sharing the truth related to schools, society, and what we see going on in the streets of Minneapolis.
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Clear and Simple as the Truth
Truth!
https://open.substack.com/pub/jwalcott14/p/clear-and-simple-as-the-truth?r=1o9mrk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Tom Nichols
12 days ago
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Nick Covington
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The blanket day one pardons of Jan 6 convictions are *the foundation* of all of the lawlessness and political violence that has followed, and in a healthy democracy would have led to immediate impeachment and removal from office.
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travelincatdoc dvm jd
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Not a wasted word. A must read for all of us: "If the American Experiment dies, it will be because we didnât stop the immorality of a white supremacy that calls Somali refugees âgarbageâ and a patriarchy that mutters âf---ing bitchâ as it murders a woman in ice-cold blood...."
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Alfie Kohn
22 days ago
Does the Trump regime's attempt to blame Renee Good for being murdered by an ICE agent sound familiar?
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Monkey Sounds, âWhite Powerâ and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Departmentâs civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that âpeople impacted by racial discriminat...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment
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ProPublica
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Of course by now we are all used to this - and that is part of the problem. Everyone should be alarmed! That there are still people who support this man as President is frightening.
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
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Adam Serwer
2 months ago
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Rev. Joash P. Thomas
2 months ago
Look folks - I get that talking about the history of racism and colonialism can be deeply uncomfortable. But do you know whatâs way more uncomfortable than talking about the history of racism and colonialism? Enduring racism and colonialism. And itâs not even close.
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Network for Public Education
2 months ago
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation
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The Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation - The American Prospect
It starts with vouchers and the destruction of the Office for Civil Rights.
https://prospect.org/2025/11/19/trump-administration-quietly-preparing-to-bring-back-school-segregation/
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Ron Filipkowski
2 months ago
I posted a montage of 19 clips last week of Trump making personal attacks against female reporters in just the last few months. Now we have #20.
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@americanair.bsky.social
I recognize flight delays are expected in air travel. But publishing false info should not be! Flying today and the board said âboarding soonâ right up to the moment a 40 minute delay was announced. âŠ..Then,
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Curriculum Censorship and Book Banning
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Sharing some thoughts on how we respond to policies that threaten ednal equity. Grateful to include things learned from Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Roberto and Lorena GermĂĄn,
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Curriculum Censorship and Book Banning
A Very Real and Present Danger
https://open.substack.com/pub/jwalcott14/p/curriculum-censorship-and-book-banning?r=1o9mrk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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Josh Cowen
3 months ago
Itâs entirely possible that, just as John Paul II is remembered for standing up to authoritarian regimes in the East, Leo will be remembered for standing up to authoritarian threats in the West.
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Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID
âWe had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.â We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administrationâs near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande,...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/usaid
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I've learned from and am thrilled to share the work of Multicultural Classroom and Roberto and Lorena German. Thank you for the shout it in this episode. It was a thrill for me to meet Justin at my workshop and learn of his connection with you!
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Episode 138 | When the Work Reaches Places You've Never Been
In this episode of Our Classroom, Roberto GermĂĄn shares a powerful testimony from community member Justin Luttrull about a moment that unfolded in a breakout session at Calvin University. A professor ...
https://www.multiculturalclassroom.com/podcasts/our-classroom/episodes/2149113201
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RNS
3 months ago
OPINION: Jesus preached that one of the two greatest commandments from God is to love oneâs neighbor. Compare this to Kirkâs show of antagonizing transgender people, broadcasting anti-Blackness, stoking Islamophobia and more.
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Kirk's rise as a Christian hero exposes the faith's perilous path
(RNS) â Attempts to sanitize Kirk demonstrate a perilous consensus among many Christians to make the faith the bedrock of authoritarianism.
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/14/kirks-rise-as-a-christian-hero-exposes-the-faiths-perilous-path/
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Josh Cowen
3 months ago
This billionaire is trolling hardworking educatorsâand making jokes about gutting supports for special needs kids.
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"Whether you call it 'school choice' or vouchers, privatization of education socializes all of the costs of education, but it privatizes all the benefits." (Becky Glover). Great start to the article!
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A call to engage
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A call to engage
Putting our working faith into action as the perennial midwife
https://open.substack.com/pub/jdsdemocracyinitiative/p/a-call-to-engage?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Jess Piper
3 months ago
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CarolCorbettBurris
4 months ago
worth repeating
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Kathleen Clark
4 months ago
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your âpremise ⊠is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. ⊠Americaâs leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
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Truthout
4 months ago
To insist that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry âdeserve those medalsâ is to frame the massacre at Wounded Knee as a moment of valor rather than atrocity. For Native communities, this declaration is not about honor, but erasure and cruelty that reopen and deepen a wound that has never healed.
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With Wounded Knee Medals, Trump Admin Suggests Thereâs Valor in Genocide
The call to rescind those medals is not about erasing history, but about refusing to let lies and conquest define it.
https://truthout.org/articles/with-wounded-knee-medals-trump-admin-suggests-theres-valor-in-genocide/
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 months ago
The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.
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Elizabeth Warren
5 months ago
The party of âfamily valuesâ is attacking our kids.
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Nancy Flanagan đŒ
5 months ago
One could say Trump has blown thru nationâs constitutional & political guardrails; more accurate assessment is both Congress and SCOTUSâ who have rolled over and played dead when it comes to their constitutional duty to exert checks & balances â removed guardrails
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Slouching into fascism
Are we already past the tipping point?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/slouching-into-fascism/
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Clint Smith
5 months ago
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administrationâs racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The presidentâs latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-attack-smithsonian-slavery/683969/?gift=JORs3BlPb0E7W_6BAebCaJN1Mh7EJKQaGGCyaAfRDYI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Kevin M. Kruse
6 months ago
Weâve said it repeatedly â the Trump assault on the Department of Education is an assault on kids with disabilities. This Ohio district is violating the clear letter of the IDEA but with the Dept of Ed eviscerated and the courts turning a blind eye, parents are on their own.
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Will Bunch
6 months ago
This is time-for-the-men-in-little-white-coats material. He is clinical
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Why PragerU Doesnât Belong in the White House
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Why PragerU Doesnât Belong in the White House
When propaganda gets a presidential platform, historical truth pays the price.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jemartisby/p/why-prageru-doesnt-belong-in-the?r=1o9mrk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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. Clear statement of the battle we are in: "the battle is ... between equality and inequality ...between justice and injustice, between democracy and dictatorship. And we all have to figure out what side of that battle that we're going to be on."
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Elizabeth Warren
6 months ago
Donald Trump talked a big game on the economy, promising a new âGolden Era.â But unemployment is up. Economic growth has slowed. Inflation is increasing. This is the ugly reality of Trumpâs economy.
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I took this picture of a quote by Erasmus of Rotterdam a couple of months ago. Unfortunately the accuracy of this statement is confirmed each day when observing Trump and his Republican enablers.
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Another example of people in power in our country willingly supporting an administration that is sewing chaos and harm every day. This quote from "Racecraft" (Fields & Fields) seems really important: "Ultimately, the only check upon oppression is the strength and effectiveness of resistance to it."
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Thank you @schoolfinance101.bsky.social for sharing - and for your commitment to our schools, and to honest research!
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Randi Weingarten đïžđâđșđž
7 months ago
Since day one, the Trump administration has attacked public education, undermining both K-12 & higher education, and with it opportunity in America. This is another illegal usurpation of the authority of the Congress. Plus it directly harms the children in our nation.
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Trump Tells States He's Holding Back $6.8 Billion for Schools
Schools nationwide won't see funding earmarked for English learners, migrant students, professional development, and more.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/trump-tells-states-hes-holding-back-6-8-billion-for-schools/2025/06
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Nancy Flanagan đŒ
7 months ago
The bill weaponizes working-class familiesâ reliance on debt to finance their college dreams with such intensity that not only will it push millions to the financial brink, it will push them out of higher education altogether.
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The New Republic: The GOP Plot to Un-Educate America
This is a startling and frightening article about the poison pill embedded in Trumpâs One Big Ugly Budget Bill. It contains a plan for destroying the student aid program that has subsidized tâŠ
https://dianeravitch.net/2025/06/30/the-new-republic-the-gop-plot-to-un-educate-america/
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Jon Sawyer
7 months ago
Powerful start to the dissent in the case about opting out on LGBTQ+ topics in public schools. Someone gets it on the Court, but far too few.
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Ida Bae Wells
7 months ago
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/magazine/trump-civil-rights-law-discrimination.html
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Will Bunch
7 months ago
Trump said you can measure a presidency by the wars you avoid, and for once he was right. Saturday's Iran bombing was the exclamation point on his abject failure Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column
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A mad kingâs pointless war is where Donald Trump was always heading
There is no legal or moral justification for Donald Trump's bomb strike on Iran, just the ego of an increasingly delusional president.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/donald-trump-bombs-iran-20250622.html
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Julian Vasquez Heilig
8 months ago
Silencing Your Liberty: The De-Civil Rights Movement
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Silencing Your Liberty: The De-Civil Rights Movement
In the 1960s, brave Americansâmany young, many Black, many poorâput their bodies on the line to claim a seat at the table of democracy. They fought for rights long denied: the right to vote withoutâŠ
https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/06/19/silencing-your-liberty-the-de-civil-rights-movement/
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Network for Public Education
8 months ago
A tax credit proposal buried in the Big Beautiful Bill would create an unprecedented new tax shelter that could let billionaires save millions in taxes through donations to private school voucher funds, all paid for by the public.
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âUnprecedentedâ Tax Credit in GOP Megabill Would Fuel School Privatization
A tax credit proposal buried in the Big Beautiful Bill would allow school voucher fund donors to lower their taxes beyond the cost of their donations.
https://readsludge.com/2025/06/18/unprecedented-tax-credit-in-gop-megabill-would-fuel-school-privatization/
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âEvery book that gets banned is another vocal cord being cut.â (A 15 year old speaker at the No Kings rally in Grand Rapids Michigan)
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