Data systems are not neutral. When states fail to recognize non-binary students, they contribute to their invisibility. @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social and I outline steps states can take to ensure all students are seen, supported, and safe. districtadministration.com/opinion/non-...

This will brighten your day.

The longstanding Charles Sumner elementary school in Boston is merging with another BPS school next year into the Sarah Roberts school. Sarah Roberts was the 5yo plaintiff in the first school segregation case in 1849, and she was represented by Charles Sumner and Robert Morris.

The ban on gender affirming care for trans kids that the Court upheld as constitutional today in Skrmetti is so obviously *un*constitutional that John Roberts basically just writes 20something pages of buffoonery ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

Trans kids suffer when they don't get medically-necessary care. This is a brazen political decision by the Supreme Court. My heart is with trans kids and their loved ones. I won’t stop fighting to make sure they can be exactly who they are.

What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

So honored to be able to share a localized, participatory model of school integration at this time of backlash! While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!

If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us. New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration. sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...

As soon as I told my daughter (2nd grader at Salemwood) that I was running, she drafted my stump speak literally on the back of an envelope.

If you’d like to follow my “School Comedy” campaign, I’ll post occasional updates here and you can also fill out this short contact form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

She’s right that I’m not a big fan of MCAS. I work for a group that’s developing an alternative. We talk about how many students at her school are learning in their non-native language, so I guess that’s what she’s referring to when she says I will “make learning easier” for multilingual students.

Good people of Malden - and especially Ward 6 - I’m running to be your rep on the School Committee. Here’s my campaign website: piazza4malden.my.canva.site#home Tell your friends! #MAedu #Malden #edpolicy

Worth watching the entire press conference from this immensely composed 18-year-old high schooler who got out of nearly a week in ICE custody just an hour before. youtu.be/aLb1WLw3VoE

Auchincloss and Moulton: “We support strong borders and deporting criminals, the police and “law and order” but Marcelo should not have been in there” Marcelo: NO ONE should be in there.

This is wrong. Period. An 18-year-old should feel safe to drive to volleyball practice without being profiled and arrested by ICE. How can anyone be okay with what is happening in the United States right now? Free Marcello Gomes Da Silva and all the others now! whdh.com/news/outrage...

More than 1000 people showed up to protest the abduction of a high school student in Milford, MA. “Hands off our kids,” they chanted. This is how we move forward. By seeing everyone else’s kids as our kids. This is the way. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/01/m...

"[Court desegregation orders] could have been helpful to any Phoenix High families (94% Black) trying to protect their kids from lead poisoning. But because of Trump’s Justice Department, that tool is no longer available." ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

New publication in Equity & Excellence in Education: Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk w/ @yrboohilary.bsky.social @jmnoonan.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...

Teen Vogue has some of the best contemporary writing on school segregation. #MAEdu www.teenvogue.com/story/sarah-...

And here's three years of data for kindergarteners from 2021-2024

"Unimmunized=students with an exemption that have no documented vaccines. No Record=students reported as not having an immunization record on file. Gap=students that have neither all vaccines required nor an exemption." *means school didn't respond. † means too few students, data not released.

As a parent to young kids I was curious what measles vaccinations looked like in Worcester schools, and found charts from MA Dept of Health & Human Services. www.mass.gov/info-details...

This is well-said. @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social and @markey.senate.gov, when are you going to start speaking out on this?

Super helpful multilingual video resource for vulnerable people and those who want to help document ICE encounters. Please share! www.wehaverights.us

If you're looking for something on that Feb 14 #DEI letter. Something short that outlines how bad it is, how wrong they are in their "analysis" of previous SCOTUS cases. Maybe something that also has a teaching guide. #edpolicy We got you covered right here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TnGz...

When funding follows the student, school segregation increases. In metro Detroit, when the % change in Black student enrollment increases by 1 standard deviation, white students are 99x (!) more likely to leave the district. Via @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social & colleagues epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

Since the recommendation that FIVE (FIVE?!!?) charter expansions move forward at tomorrow's #MAEdu Board of Ed, I will again note that the Governor has at least three seats she should have filled and has not. who-cester.blogspot.com/2025/02/heal...

STICKERS!!

When school culture wars lead to superintendent firing, resignation etc it costs districts big $$$. In fact, in one year, the total cost is about $3.2 Billion. Which is a lot. Great interview with @drrachelswhite.bsky.social on the @nepc.bsky.social podcast: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

The speech crackdown is important not just because it impacts 67,000 students in military families, but because it likely reflects an agenda that the Trump administration will seek to impose on all public schools.

The restrictions, detailed in a February 7 memo issued by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) earlier this month, purport to implement President Trump's executive orders.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is imposing a comprehensive censorship regime across its network of 161 primary and secondary schools — eliminating content that acknowledges the contributions of women, minorities, and LGBTQ people.

A 13 year old in an American school in Germany started a walkout in protest of a visit from Pete Hegseth, via @popular.info Maybe the newest part of the long history of youth protest/leadership during times of crisis. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

That white folks think they have any control over whether my child learns Black history in school is infuriating. Just honestly. The audacity. We aren’t asking permission.

"Much of what DOGE cancelled here is not waste or abuse under any conceivable definition of the term. Indeed, DOGE has canceled many high-quality research projects that had already been underway for years, which is far more wasteful than letting them finish!"

Republican elites and “moderates” have never been able to control the accelerating radicalization that is now tearing down constitutional government in America and puts extremists in power: Not when the Tea Party rose after Barack Obama’s election, not when Trumpism came to dominate the GOP.

For decades, mainstream Republican elites like Mitch McConnell have tried to harness the extremist popular energies on the base to prevent egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy from ever upending hierarchies of race, gender, and wealth. They have enabled and elevated this extremism.

There legal framework shows they want to invalidate all civil rights protections.

Just mean. dredf.org/protect-504/

Adding an insider perspective to this thread published yesterday. slate.com/news-and-pol...

But one that is really unpopular. www.pewresearch.org/politics/201...

Social studies teachers: Are you teaching about the Trump administration's attempts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy? Might start with the following inquiry question: What could be the outcome of reducing the federal workforce? 🧵 #sschat #edusky www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...

Amid the sea of NAEP takes I haven't seen any acknowledgement that this could be the last year it's administered. ICYMI the new administration isn't exactly keen on disaggregating data by race. (Don't be surprised when they ban/criminalize the collection of this data altogether)

“Men” is so hideous

Dear 🧪🔭⚛️: Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“ jmjafrx.substack.com/p/the-resegr...

new one up leading off with the time Sojourner Truth came to Worcester and then a look at the current civil rights struggle in this city www.worcestersucks.email/p/aint-i-a-p...

This is exactly right. We need an affirmative vision of egalitarian pluralism - of a society in which the individual’s status would no longer be determined by race, gender, religion, or wealth. And we need political leaders able to make the case for it, defend it, fight for it. We need better.

As it says in this article, ICE raids in schools (even the threat itself) are the new front in contemporary school segregation: denying students of color their constitutional right to a free public education. #MAEdu www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/29/m...

Hey, I understand why you’d want to send something to your child’s school principal; you know them, and they’re right there. They also don’t set policy. Nor does your superintendent. School board. You want to write to your school board.