This week, we're honoring Betty Reid Soskin on Education Beat. The oldest national park ranger and a civil rights icon, she advocated for remembering the history of people often left out of the textbooks. This is the story of how students renamed their school after her: edsource.org/podcast/how-...

I was so honored to speak with @josemedinajr89.bsky.social. His message is so powerful. "If a child says, parquear, instead of saying, No se dice asi (That's not how you say it!), I can say look what you did! You combined parking and estacionar! Shut up, linguistic prowess!" Listen:

RELEASE: NewsGuild journalists are sounding the alarm – media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in the newsroom. Today, we launch #NewsNotSlop, a national campaign kicking off a Week of Action on AI, December 1–5. newsguild.org/release-stan...

My podcast Education Beat is turning 4 years old! And to mark the occasion we’re sharing an episode from those first days about an Oakland woman who adopted a class of 1st graders and promised to pay for their college if they graduated high school. LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Emmett Till Was Born On This Day In 1941 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/07/25/e...

“How can you really teach if you don't know what's going on in their lives and in their minds?” Listen to my conversation with @larryferlazzo.bsky.social:

It was so fun to talk with @larryferlazzo.bsky.social. And tomorrow you can listen to him on our podcast too!!

Migrant education helps farmworkers' children catch up; Trump wants to end it edsource.org?page_id=736431 @zstavely.bsky.social

It's been 178 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

It could be the last summer for the migrant education program, for children of agricultural workers who move from school to school. Listen to my latest:

11 of our 13 members attended our Tuesday unit meeting and we could gather again today if management would agree to sit down with us.

It's been 170 days without a bargaining session with @edsource.org.

A group of high school students in Monterey County is spending their summer extracting DNA from sprigs of clover, making jewelry out of algae and shaping ceramic bowls, while also beefing up their math, reading and writing skills. Could be the program's last summer. edsource.org?page_id=736431

"These cuts will hurt the same families over and over again." Listen to our latest Education Beat podcast:

Black, Hispanic, and first-generation students received shorter recommendation letters or had fewer details about their intellectual promise, according to a new study.

EdSource's unit of @newsguild.org was recognized by management on Jan. 27, and 164 days later management has not met with us to begin negotiating a contract. We are ready and prepared to bargain. It is time to get to work and build a better @edsource.org.

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids ramp up across California, so have reports of students grappling with trauma, upheaval and fear after family members — and sometimes students themselves — are detained. @zstavely.bsky.social @lausdsup.bsky.social #LA edsource.org?page_id=734464

President Trump froze $6.2 B in federal education grants – $811 M that was to go to California – the day before the money was to be released. Now districts are scrambling to fund programs before school reopens.http://edsource.org/?page_id=735665 @zstavely.bsky.social @tonythurmond.bsky.social

Last week I had the chance to host my podcast live at #SXSWEDU, and share the stories of some powerful undocumented immigrant student organizers. The recording is up! edsource.org/podcast/undo... I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.

Heading to Austin now to record Education Beat at #SXSWEDU! Who else is going?

Register via Zoom for our next two March webinars to learn more: 📕 Screening Multilingual Learners on March 4: www.tinyurl.com/42mmety8 📘 Addressing Reading Difficulties on March 25: www.tinyurl.com/27xj38f8

If you were wondering how much money California schools get from the US Department of Education and for what, @zstavely.bsky.social and I spent the past week putting together a partial list. And I’m still on it, so expect more detail on what federal money pays for in schools soon.

“This means that children are expected to show up in court, as of tomorrow, on their own, with no legal counsel, and try to defend themselves from deportation in an adversarial system." via @racheluranga.bsky.social

"Can my principals bring together a group of Asian American students to talk about whether they’ve experienced anti-Asian hate? ...Can we even celebrate African American History Month?'" Important read from @mallikaseshadri.bsky.social and @lashericat.bsky.social edsource.org?page_id=727083

SCOOP: In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.

Education Dept. Cancels Over $600M in Grants for Teacher Pipeline Programs www.the74million.org/article/educ...

“A lot of these contracts have data deletion clauses,” a researcher told me. “The fact is that they won’t be able to reopen them if they change their mind. They’re not just paused. They’re terminated and we’re losing the information.” hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Anallely only got to 3rd grade in Guatemala, before having to work in coffee fields with her dad. Now, she's getting a chance to follow her dreams. Listen to her and other students' stories, and how a new curriculum in Oakland is helping them fill in gaps on @edsource.org's latest podcast.

Before this, teachers were struggling to help students or trying to get "bootleg" copies of a curriculum from New York.

I spent four years investigating these sorts of claims. Children aren’t being taught they’re inherently victims or oppressors. Teachers aren’t leading kids to change genders. Instead these claims are used as a pretext to sanitize history curricula and impose conservative Christian ideas in schools

NEW: ICE official Mellissa Harper has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Teachers, students, parents debate #EthnicStudies, then a dramatic vote by Palo Alto's school board on mandating the course with host @zstavely.bsky.social and me – it's worth a listen edsource.org/podcast/ethn...

We have an update: Our union, @edsourceguild.bsky.social, has been voluntarily recognized! We look forward to working with management to create the conditions we need for all of us to succeed. #EdSourceGuild

Legacy media are failing to report accurately on the EOs/other actions. These explicitly order an end to civil rights enforcement. The poor reporting reflects legitimation of right-wing propaganda. Journalists: The propaganda is ideology, not fact. Its aim, too, is to end civil rights enforcement.

State officials, school leaders and teachers rushed to reassure families that they will protect students. Learn more: bit.ly/3E3r26l

As LA County school officials lead recovery efforts after the Palisades and Eaton fires, advice comes from two Northern California education leaders whose own schools were ravaged by fires. Learn more: bit.ly/3WwFqKL

"Schools must be safe spaces, not sites of fear." California education leaders rushed to reassure families after Trump administration change allowing immigration enforcement in schools. edsource.org/2025/califor... @edsource.org

"The house is gone. Everything is gone ..." Compelling portrait of a disaster – how one teacher, one family in Altadena cope with loss from Eaton Fire & start to pick up the pieces; @edsource.org podcast w/ @mallikaseshadri.bsky.social @zstavely.bsky.social edsource.org/podcast/teac...

Whoo-hoo! We are beyond excited to have the incredible staff @edsource.org in the Pacific Media Workers and @newsguild.org family! @edsourceguild.bsky.social 💪

NEW: Journalists at nonprofit newsroom, EdSource, announced their intent to unionize today. ✊ The @edsourceguild.bsky.social (EdSource Guild) is asking leadership at EdSource to recognize the union voluntarily! newsguild.org/edsource-sta...

The reporters of @edsource.org are excited to announce the formation of the #EdSourceGuild.

@edsource.org is unionizing today! We're forming @edsourceguild.bsky.social. I'm proud to stand with my colleagues as we work for a secure and thriving future for our newsroom.

Tanya Reyes is a Los Angeles Unified teacher and a Pasadena Unified mom. Her family lost everything in the Eaton Fire. Listen: edsource.org/podcast/teac... @mallikaseshadri.bsky.social @edsource.org

This is a story I've been waiting to read. It's incredibly satisfying — to the point of tears — to finally read something that reflects the reality that I personally know to be true. www.latimes.com/california/s...

LISTEN: The new year is a time of rituals and traditions. Some people swear by eating black-eyed peas or lentils every January 1st to bring good luck. Others eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight. At EdSource, we turn to John Fensterwald and his annual predictions column.

“Students are scared,” said Belen Carrasco, a middle school teacher at Bakersfield City School District, who reported an increase in student absences in her classroom over the last week. An important read from @emmagallegos.bsky.social edsource.org/2025/student...

My latest at @edsource.org. “School districts should be examining what their board policies are to make sure they’re updated and take any measures to make sure that families feel safe,” said Ana Mendoza of @aclu.bsky.social