This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.

1/ It should be forgiven. It should be forgotten. If she spoke of it again, the sins would be hers, she was told. But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls. This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇 [content warning: sexual abuse]

"We can go ahead and put to bed the notion that there is widespread majority support for English-only education amongst Latino communities." www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Trump continues to dismantle Department of Education Labor will now administer K12 education grants including Title I (bc of course education is for the purpose of labor) www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a lower court order requiring full SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown, allowing Trump to continue with partial payments instead.

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

Congrats to Cal Poly on the #FamilyU Seal Designation for Dedication to Serving Student Parents. ucm.calpoly.edu/news/cal-pol... #StudentParents #ParentingStudents #HigherEd

Bio up for the Data and Tools Advisory Board with the California Cradle to Career Data System. 3 year term. 2025-2028. Learn more about the state's efforts: c2c.ca.gov Lots of opportunities for public engagement #BigData #CradleToCareer #Cradle2Career #DataTransparency #Data2Action

"Without this information, there is no way to know how schools are working to address academic and opportunity disparities — particularly for Black and Latino students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities and those from low-income backgrounds." www.the74million.org/article/givi...

Absolutely! This is why universal free lunch exists: so that we would not means test children eating food *and* poor kids would not be stigmatized. The idea is that everyone gets to eat. And no child is hungry at school.

Yes, that's me. Date: ~2000. My first teaching position. #TheOnion #StockPhoto #InternetFame

Powerful piece by my colleague K. Pale @hechingerreport.org "That is the power of advocacy. It turns exclusion into inclusion. It rewrites the rules not just for one person, but for those who come after." hechingerreport.org/opinion-student-parents-belong-on-college-campuses-so-do-their-children/?

“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.” By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

Punchbowl reports “White House officials determined they do not have the authority” to use contingency reserves —billions of $ that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate— to fund Nov. SNAP benefits. But, that’s not what USDA’s now-deleted shutdown plan says:

All politics is local. Vote out your state reps who peddle in this dangerous anti-science nonsense.

#SNAP helps 1 in 8 people in the U.S. buy groceries each month. The Administration has the legal authority and funding to keep benefits flowing through November as well as can and should act quickly to do so. www.cbpp.org/blog/the-tru...

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House. This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

I'm reminded by this quote, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." (& yes, we can build more tables.) Data & Tools Advisory board w/ California's Cradle-to-Career Data System. Learn more: c2c.ca.gov

“if the administration succeeds in its plans to cut the 2026 federal science budget to $154 billion from $198 billion — a 25 percent reduction — it would represent the smallest amount that the federal government has spent on science in this century” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

quoted. #TitleIII #OELA #EnglishLearners www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Commentary: Beyond Visibility: Using Student Parent Narratives to Enhance Data Collection. #ParentingStudents #StudentParents #HigherEd castudentparentalliance.org/resources/ad...

"From campus struggles to statewide change" @stanfordeducation.bsky.social ed.stanford.edu/about/commun...

Check out the public event and related resources: Lessons on Collecting Data and Driving Change to Support Student Parent Success. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social #ParentingStudents #StudentParents #HigherEd www.urban.org/events/lesso...

Will be on campus for homecoming weekend! ed.stanford.edu/news/three-g...?

📣California Student Parent Summit 2025 at Cal Poly-SLO. Join us for our session: Cal State Student Parents: A Longitudinal Look at Systemwide Collaboration and Innovation. 🗓️ September 9-10, 2025 🔗Learn More: bit.ly/CASPS2025 #StudentParentSuccess #HigherEd #MultiGenerationalOutcomes #StudentParents

More news, abt #CCAMPIS grants. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...?

Some recent work from our team at Cal Poly-SLO. Solid Mustang News coverage of our efforts. Lots of implications of what the visibility of data means for #StudentParents as we move into the sustainability & growth stage of our work in #HigherEd mustangnews.net/cal-poly-stu...

Q: “What keeps you up at night?” JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: “The state of our democracy.” 🇺🇸 😕

The Trump admin is withholding over $6 billion in education grants for schools www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

🎓 Supporting #StudentParents Across California’s Campuses w/ #AB2458 June 10, 2 pm, How UC is expanding support June 18, 11 am, How CalStates are rolling out new policies castudentparentalliance.org/events/ #HigherEd #UC #CalState #ParentingStudents #StudentsWithDependents #FinancialAid #GAINSAct

Friday news drop (of course). www.politico.com/news/2025/06... the appeal (linked in article): www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Proud to be part of this effort at the #CalState. So appreciative of the leadership at the chancellor's office to support students and their families toward #MultiGenerationalOutcomes www.calstate.edu/csu-system/n... #StudentParents #HigherEd #ParentingStudents #StudentsWithDependents

Time to support the plaintiffs as this case moves to the merits phase. 📝 File #AmicusBriefs 📊 Share local impact—news, op-eds, data—on how the RIF is harming students and schools. #DepartmentOfEducation #CivilRights #IDEA #TitleIX #AmicusBriefs www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Broke out the good scarf

On #InternationalDayOfFamilies, uplifting a new Parent Advisor Program Microsite—a go-to resource for centering student parent voice in shaping policy & programs. 🔗 ascendstories.aspeninstitute.org/students-par... #StudentParents #ParentVoice #HigherEd #2Gen Dev by Ascend at the Aspen Institute

Modern statistics was born out of eugenics--aimed at justifying oppression (or worse) by lending the appearance of "scientific rigor" to deeply biased claims. This kind of big data surveillance effort smacks of that same goal.

Excited to announce Stephanie Land (@stepville), author of Maid + Class, will keynote the 2025 Student Parent Summit at #CalPoly! Sept 9–10, 2025. 💛 #StudentParentJoy #HigherEd Learn more: castudentparentalliance.org #StudentParents #StudentWithDependents #ParentingStudents #CalStates

Help us bring student parent leaders to the 2025 Summit at Cal Poly this fall! 💪🏽🎓 Your gift helps cover meals & registration for parenting students and their children. 👉 crowdfund.calpoly.edu/project/46443 #StudentParentJoy #HigherEdForAll #StudentParentSuccessSummit

Authored by one of my former student research assistants for #StudentParentJoy #MultiGenerationalOutcomes #HigherEd #ParentingStudents #StudentsWithDependents mustangnews.net/lte-student-...

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Why is the administration trying to get rid of Head Start? Because it challenges their narrative of waste, fraud, and abuse. And because it gets in the way of their efforts to trap people in precarity and make them easier to exploit. My latest for @msnbc.com: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

📣 Elevating! A short piece I wrote about the role of storytelling & ways both data + storytelling play key roles in our collective advocacy work celebrating #StudentParents & their families in #HigherEd castudentparentalliance.org/resources/ad...