UPDATE: The FBI raid on the LAUSD Superintendent's office and home is allegedly connected to an AI startup whose CEO was indicted for fraud in 2024. They say LAUSD was considering working with them.

Alright we’re doing hair color at birth. Whatever hair color you had at birth needs to be what is listed on you ID or they’re void tomorrow morning!!!! Good luck!!!

If the right has SUCH an issue with gender markers on IDs, they should take them off of IDs and passports entirely. Why do we even need them? Their obsession with terrorizing trans people is so absolutely insane.

Lots of rumors about why the FBI is raiding the LAUSD superintendent’s office and home. My take: Based on everything this administration has done and how they attack California and Los Angeles, I do NOT trust that this was not politically motivated. At all.

TIME CHANGE: Going Live on Substack today at 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern to do a Q+A and talk about the LAUSD raid. Which professional/expert should join me? I'd love to reach out to some people to see if they can come on with me. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

More to come

BREAKING: The FBI has raided LAUSD headquarters (the Superintendent Alberto Carvalho's office) and his home. This comes one week after the DOJ moved to join a federal civil rights lawsuit against LAUSD which was filed by the 1776 Project Foundation.

Trump didn't mention education in his State of the Union speech at all. Not shocked, I guess.

BREAKING: The South Dakota House of Representatives is going to vote on expanding the state’s free and reduced school lunch program! ACTION STEP: If you’re in South Dakota, Rep Kadyn Wittman has asked that you call your state rep, identify yourself, say you support HB1082, and ask for a yes vote!

In a BLATANT attack on first amendment rights, teachers in Florida have been warned that if they post “anti-law enforcement” content or encourage student protests, they could be investigated and fired. The Florida Education Commissioner also urged parents and students to report educators.

Hey guess who filed the case that got Trump’s illegal tariffs struck down? Not Costco… Learning Resources! Take a look: Source: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... (and Costco’s case is a lower court suit that will likely be importantly NEXT as it deals with refunding tariff payments)

INSANE AI-generated child posted by the “anti-teachers union” teachers union led Ryan Walters (Oklahoma’s failed and disgraced former state superintendent)

San Francisco teachers are back in the classroom after a $183M deal ends the city’s first strike in nearly 50 years! The agreement includes 5% raises + fully funded family health care.

More than 7M student loan borrowers are pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness, but 83,370 “buyback” applications are backlogged at the hollowed-out Dept. of Ed. Meanwhile, a new rule coming July 2026 changes "qualifying employer” to exclude organizations that engage in “illegal activities.”

Arizona voters may get the final say on the state’s mess of a school voucher program. A new ballot measure would cap eligibility at $150K income with an exception for students with disabilities, ban luxury purchases, and add oversight + background checks for private schools.

A father in Georgia says a principal assaulted his 10th-grade son during a student walkout protesting ICE. The father filed a police report, but hours later, the teen was suspended for “disrupting the school day.”

Educators and school districts in Minnesota have filed a federal lawsuit to stop immigration agents from operating near schools & bus stops. Since the Trump administration scrapped “sensitive locations” guidance, ICE has shown up near schools, detained teachers, parents, & pulled over school vans.

GOOD NEWS: The Trump regime AGGRESSIVELY tried to rewrite civil rights laws using a letter. They were going to withhold funding from public schools if they even SMELLED “DEI” (or whatever they deemed DEI). I’ve been covering this all year and I literally cried when I got the news…

It is honestly quite comforting that so many of us are spiraling right now, but at the same time: you never know what someone else is going through. Even if they have a prominent online presence. Sending everyone love. We’re gonna get through this season together!

Anybody else having a nervous breakdown?! HAHA same!!!!! Let’s recap what’s been going on in education lately… open.substack.com/pub/mrsfrazz...

Allow me to SCREAM THIS FROM THE ROOFTOPS: “Apolitical” content creators are NOT apolitical. Actually, research shows us that they are the most effective “political messengers.” (Yep - even more effective than political content creators.) Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/mrsfrazz...

Some people are extremely ready to jump down another person’s throat and it’s concerning. We are not each other’s enemy.

Since we’re talking about the SAVE Act and how it’s not gonna pass, can we also talk about the same stupid ass, one sentence “abolish the dept of Ed” bill Massie has introduced like, every year he’s been in Congress? Lmaooooo

Idk who needs to hear this but there are two parts of Congress: the House and the Senate. Just because something passes one doesn’t mean it passes the other.

If someone is fearmongering you about the SAVE Act, they either don’t know civics or they’re trying to profit off of engagement 👀

The SAVE Act isn’t going to pass, my beloveds

The toddlers bring a STRANGE assortment of objects to bed every night I’m usually fine with whatever, but tonight I had to draw the line at bowl of ice cubes.

BREAKING: Indiana wants to eliminate “low-earning” college degrees before the federal Earnings Test is even finalized. Degrees flagged right now include library science, teacher education transfer programs, music, dance, English, and mental & social health fields.

I love that the right hates teachers unions because they're afraid of them 🤣

My friend is studying for the bar and I got to be her channel sub today!!! Check it out: www.instagram.com/reel/DUrwXKc...

The SAVE Act is a non-issue right now, my loves. The filibuster isn’t going anywhere. 7 Dems are not going to vote with Republicans to pass it. Also, this the third time SAVE has come up. It’s gonna die again. Do not fret!

What’s the most secure way to get documents or messages without metadata tying it back to the sender or whoever originally collected a doc/photo/etc? Can’t be Signal. Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

No one will get wrecked by the ending of Toy Story 3 like millennials who graduated high school the summer it came out after we had grown up with Andy since preschool 😭

I used to wake up at 6 AM in the dead of winter and DREAD getting out of my warm bed, but when I was teaching I would say to myself “you’ll feel better when you get to work” and I always would! 💫

I cannot wait to go back to the classroom. Of course, it’s bittersweet to look forward to because it means all of MY babies will be in school, but teaching has been and will always be my dream job.

It is so special to me that I have stayed in touch with my students’ families for so long, that now I’VE become a parent and we can talk about school things. I was so lucky to be a teacher.

My idea of Jesus is so wildly different from Republicans’ idea of Jesus that I literally don’t know what book they were reading. Like how did you get it THAT WRONG?!

If we’re blaming or judging parents for what kind of school they send their kids to, we’ve lost the plot. EVERYONE should be an advocate for strong public schools (even people without kids) just like everyone should care about public health (regardless of what kind of insurance you do/don’t have).

DISTURBING: Texas has created an “Inspector General for Educator Misconduct" so educators can be permanently blacklisted from the profession for lacking “good moral character."

Researching this was really trippy! The most political influencers…aren’t actaully “political influencers” open.substack.com/pub/feelgood...

Four-day school weeks… how do we feel? Some models use the 5th day as a day for kids to come to school for clubs or sports while teachers use it for planning/PD time. (Continued...)

Welp... Americans are going to be able to get a DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR reimbursement from the government (up to $1,700) if they donate to a "Scholarship Granting Organization" This is the latest in the Trump Administration's attempt to funnel money away from public schools and privatize education.

WOOOOOOO: Up to 200,000 federal student loan borrowers may be legally entitled to instant student loan forgiveness + payment refunds because the Dept of Education missed a deadline 😎 (More in thread...)

The Trump administration is so great at eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse that they spent between $28 to 38 MILLION DOLLARS trying to gut the Department of Education’s civil rights office 😐 Source: www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

Texas wields state takeovers of school districts like a weapon. Most states use state takeovers for academic collapse, financial failure, or corruption…Greg Abbott and his pals use them for “governance concerns,” which apparently includes student protests.

“It’s about time students like this were arrested.” …Students exercising their first amendment right?? Btw: the students arrested were arrested for things that had NOTHING to do with the protest. Abbott is just linking the two so he can exert control over schools and students.

Greg Abbott got so mad about students protesting ICE that Texas is now threatening to take over school districts or yank schools’ funding if they’re even PERCEIVED to be “facilitating” protests. Source: www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

Stay with me on this: The Department of Education’s workforce has been nearly cut in half...but Congress did not cut the staff budget. The budget for staff is basically the same.

Listen when I was in a union, every time they asked "Do you want to strike?" I voted yes. "Do you think you MIGHT want to strike?" Also yes. "Would you strike?" Yes.

The congressional hearing tomorrow “Runaway College Spending Meets the Working Families Tax Cuts” is going to piss me off :( youtube.com/live/AqWrBfk0Ofc