"What defines a society is how much people love other people’s children. That is what decides if you build institutions or don’t. If you weave a safety net or don’t. If you fight for equality or don’t." -- @anandwrites.bsky.social the.ink/p/in-the-los...

"In the wake of aggressive immigration enforcement in Chicago, some elected officials and union leaders are calling on the community to help protect immigrant students and their families." www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

“The tasks that ‘AI’ says it can do are actually important work, not ‘bullshit jobs’…and these tasks—carefully crafting messages to send home, for example—shape how teachers develop a learning community in and beyond the classroom walls.” 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/companion-an...

“Lawrence student journalists have now published a story on the ongoing lawsuit, calling it a victory for the student press” splc.org/2025/08/lawr...

We shouldn't be using standardized testing as gatekeeping at any age, but it is esp farcical in early childhood (=before age 8). Let's fund small class sizes in K-3rd, not special schools for kids whose families were test prepping them from toddlerhood on up 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Federal court tosses Moms For Liberty associate’s case against Lowell Area Schools michiganadvance.com/2025/10/01/f...

"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."

“Longer-term, [Mary Wall, who served as deputy assistant secretary for P-12 education in Biden admin] warns, a prolonged shutdown could further break down states and schools’ trust in the federal government to support education, and further budget cuts could ensue.” www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

“The push for “AI” serves to further diminish, delegitimize, and undermine those who want to continue to do this work of teaching: historically women’s work.” 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/surrender-bu...

“Hundreds of students from Iowa's largest school district marched out of their classrooms on Tuesday in protest of Superintendent Ian Roberts' arrest by ICE. Walkouts, which began at 10:30 a.m., spanned all five Des Moines high schools and Central Campus.” www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

"We will not be silent as our students, their families, our families and our own children’s classmates are threatened. We will speak up! And if that makes us extremist, then call me extremist number one, for fighting for our students." davestieber.com/2025/09/30/t...

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

👏👏👏 "A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a “stereotype” — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

The generational trauma caused by ICE abductions is going to damage far, far more people than we even realize yet.

Learning Disabilities Association of IL Virtual Conference, Fri 10/3- Sat 10/4. Register here: ldaillinois.org/october-2025... Schedule here: ldaillinois.org/wp-content/u...

“‘If the federal government wants to make it very complicated for states to spend federal education money, they have gone about it the right way this year, btw withholding money, canceling some, pausing, being unclear about what the [continuing resolution] level is’” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

“While Roberts appeared in the ICE detainee locator early Friday afternoon as being held at the Pottawattamie County Jail in western Iowa, he no longer appeared in the locator as of Friday at 5 p.m. ET.” www.edweek.org/leadership/i...

“though LLMs are not powerful enough to remove our students’ need for strong writing skills…they are more than powerful enough to destroy the integrity of the assessments that measure whether or not students are building those skills.” theimportantwork.substack.com/p/llms-and-t...

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

“Llorens, who spent more than 30 years as a high school math teacher & head girls’ track & cross-country coach at Thornridge High School, had been an IEA member since 1985…A Chicagoan at heart, Llorens grew up in Englewood on the southwest side of Chicago & attended CPS.” ieanea.org/2025/09/26/i...

“What’s clear is that local school boards are offering a lesson Democrats in Washington: you don’t have to comply, even when the demands are hard.”

4. "CPS will not back away from our commitment to Black, transgender, or any other student groups. We will continue to consider diversity among our greatest strengths, and we will move forward with protecting the rights of all students," said King, CEO of CPS. Watch her statement:

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms. Trump will now pull millions in federal funds. "Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Dr. Ian Roberts, the Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, has been arrested by ICE. Roberts, 54, born in Guyana, grew up in Brooklyn, served as a superintendent in Pennsylvania, and held a valid license from the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

"“This is bigger than all the other tech bubbles put together...This industry can be as successful as the most successful tech products ever introduced and still not justify the current levels of investment.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

"Despite the funding fight, CPS is continuing to forge ahead with a Black Student Success Plan it rolled out in February and a Black Student Achievement Committee mandated by Illinois law." blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/25/c...

"The U.S. Department of Education is shutting down a Biden-era grant program intended to help make K-12 classrooms more racially and socioeconomically diverse" www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Lord help us all…your cry-laugh ed story of the day “The school is an experiment meant to instill emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial skills through project-based learning, which includes a partnership with the local Water Street Real Estate Company.” www.edsurge.com/news/2025-09...

"The consequences of a potential breach or improper release of this information...are so severe that, according to a whistleblower, the fallout could require re-issuing Social Security numbers for every American—a process that would disrupt access to banking, employment, health care, and housing"

"Despite an SSA risk assessment warning of an up to 65% chance of catastrophic breach, the data remains in systems without any verified security controls." www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/p...

Making this a great time to show up at your local Board of Education meetings and make sure your administrators and teachers are able to exercise their free speech.

“teach students to analyze AI critically, to identify our tendency to anthropomorphize a text-extruding machine, to notice how the words it strings together are distinguished by an eerily insipid blandness coupled with absolute certitude” www.edweek.org/technology/o...

Chicago Public Schools told the U.S. Department of Education it would not be walking back the rollout of its Black Student Success Plan or changing its policies related to transgender students until a federal investigation is completed. Chalkbeat reports: blockclubchi.co/4noylre

"The National Association of School Nurses is urging the continuation of vaccine mandates in K-12 schools to help protect children from preventable illnesses." www.k12dive.com/news/school-...

"In south suburban Dixmoor Monday morning, agents wearing tactical gear and masks were seen detaining someone during a traffic stop just outside Rosa Parks Middle School" chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

"Half of educators expect to purchase food for their students this school year, according to a recent survey from the nation’s second-largest teachers union." truthout.org/articles/sur...

“The problem here is that we actually do belong to a village. And a democracy is a collective enterprise…And if mere exposure to ideas are violations of constitutional rights, then we have no capacity to engage in democratic processes around education.” educationwars.substack.com/p/an-existen...

dangerous.

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"One of the strong values of community schools is building a sense of responsive community, which is particularly important for families and children who have had negative experiences with public institutions." learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/ca-c...

'If it's not us, who is it going to be?': Chicago students rally against ICE www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/16/c...

Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles.

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Allowing anyone to buy a gun and massacre people is a choice we don't need to keep making. We can pass laws the majority of us favor, prosecute the arms manufacturers for their complicity, and make this a place where everyone is safe to come home to the people they love.

"For years, Americans have lived with the knowledge that their personal data was slipping into the clouds of tech giants and government agencies, even as the European Union has protected its citizens against digital surveillance." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has died from the injuries he sustained in a shooting at Utah Valley University today. Gun violence doesn’t care about ideology. No one is truly safe on our campuses, in our elementary or high schools— anywhere—in a country awash in easily accessible guns.

Minutes after news broke that Charlie Kirk had been shot, we learned of a shooting at a Colorado high school. Another group of kids left to live with fear and trauma, because our so-called leaders would rather protect the gun lobby than protect the people they serve.

"As condemnation of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk continued to pour in on Wednesday, details emerged about another shooting, at Evergreen High School in Colorado, that left at least three teenagers in critical condition." www.commondreams.org/news/charlie...

secs 243-46 of the house bill bans federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. that’s the game they ran on abortion. how we got where we are. secs 311-12 are a funding ban for any school that lets a trans person play sports. full bill text linked in this post.🧵