Rumor is grants for special educator teacher & leadership training are about to be canceled. That means fewer special educators during nationwide shortages, fewer people who attract/retain teachers the field, and most importantly, poor outcomes for kids with disabilities and their families. #OSEP

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

Why is @badar-kauffman.bsky.social the best conference for research in special education and related fields. 10 reasons why BKC is the best. In no particular order: (BKC Alums, feel free to chime in)

Teachers! @mrzachg.bsky.social nails it in his latest must read post, "Projects have a time and a place, but PBL does not": educationrickshaw.com/2025/03/30/p...

This is reality. And why we need the DOE.

🚨The White House just issued an executive order to close the U.S. Department of Education. Eliminating ED or moving IDEA to another agency will be a step backward in serving those with disabilities. Tell your representatives to protect ED: exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...

Educators Kata Solow & @callielowenstein.bsky.social urge everyone in the Science of Reading movement to band together to defend IES & reading research and to protect our children’s education. @standupforscience.bsky.social @thereadingleague.org www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/stand-r...

The IES Practice Guides and resources inform every single literacy course & training for pre-service & in-service teachers. Any literacy intervention that has evidence behind it has evidence because the studies were funded by IES, OSEP, or by NIH. Every $ spent on IES research saves tax payer $.

Check out these FREE lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards - all focused on helping students understand decimals. buff.ly/3QC8mgR

Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful: A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research. #EdResearch #EdPolicy livehandbook.org

Are you going to the CEC Convention in Baltimore? Come to our annual Division reception- Thursday, March 13th at 7:00pm. @DR is hosting with friends from @DLD, @DCDT, @TED, & @DEBH. food, drinks, and free access to the American Visionary Art Museum! 🍷🪩🎨 alt text: flyer with details from above

Excellent piece by my colleague, Zach Rossetti on Section 504 and its importance for protecting the rights of students with disabilities in light of the current lawsuit attempting to limit its impact www.bu.edu/articles/202...

@afgilmour.bsky.social will be speaking at the SPARC Center Launch Event on March 11, 2025! Join us to hear her insights on quantitative research and its impact on special education, from data-driven strategies to leadership for change. 👉 Register now: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

⏳ The #SPARCCenter Launch Event is almost here! ⏳ Join us on March 11, 2025, with @lmasonwms.bsky.social discussing leadership in #SpecialEducation. Hear valuable insights on driving systemic change and supporting special educators. 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

🚨 Only TWO weeks left until the #SPARCCenter Launch Event! 🚨 Join us on March 11, 2025, with @lizbettini.bsky.social, who will share next steps for our mixed-methods research and how the results can drive positive change in #SpecialEducation. 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

⏰ One week to go! ⏰ The #SPARCCenter Launch Event is on March 11, 2025, 1-2pm EST. Join us for an exciting discussion on the future of #SpecialEducation with presentations from our experts and leadership team. 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

Are you going to CEC next week? Come check out these presentations on fraction arithmetic and word-problem solving! 😉

Register for TED CEC's Advocacy in Action webinar, tomorrow afternoon! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

We’ve all had that boss… We know what’s up. Americans are clear: they do not support Elon Musk and these devastating cuts. This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about looting the federal government, giving Elon Musk private contracts, and mining Americans’ data. We will continue to fight back.

With House passage of its budget resolution and its requirement of at least $880b in #Medicaid cuts, here again is my writeup from January of all of the deeply damaging Medicaid proposals under consideration to meet that target amount of cuts: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...

"Vaccines have allowed us to live longer. The only reason frankly that we now question them is because at some level vaccines have been a victim of their own success." Watch Dr. Paul Offit in VIRULENT: THE VACCINE WAR this weekend! watch.eventive.org/virulentmovi...

As Republicans move a budget resolution tonight, it’s important to understand this: they're working on tax breaks for billionaires while slashing health care, education and public safety and doing nothing about the really big problems most Americans are facing, like the rising costs of housing.

Every member of the House is back on your home turf for congressional recess. We’ve got events scheduled across the nation to get their attention — because fighting back against the Trump-Musk coup is going to take all of us: indivisible.org/muskorus

The extreme MAGA Republican budget will close hospitals, shut down nursing homes and deprive children of healthcare. There are 215 Democrats in the House who actually want to love and cherish Medicaid, not destroy it. We only need three House Republicans to join us.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

🚨 Action Needed! 🚨 Students with disabilities are at risk. Proposed federal changes threaten IDEA, education research funding, and even Section 504. We must stand together to protect their rights! 📢 #Protect504 #DisabilityRights #Dyslexia www.teachingld.org/dld-response...

1. Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would drastically lower Americans' energy bills. But hundreds of Alabama residents are receiving a $100 surcharge on their energy bills as a direct result of Trump's actions in the White House.

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."

Gutting the Department of Education means stripping away civil rights protections for our most vulnerable students—those with disabilities, low-income students, and other at-risk youth. Our students deserve more protections, not fewer.

One federal law enforcement official called the order to withdraw the charges against Adams “horrific” and “just transparent corruption.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The simplest reason that Trump should not cut NIH overhead rates is that it is illegal. The reason it is illegal is that Congress passed a law to stop Trump from changing the rates the last time he tried to do so. The law is clear; the only real ambiguity is whether Trump still follows the law.

@NIH’s new 15% cap on research funds threatens U.S. science. Call Congress now to oppose it! Your voice matters—act today. Find your rep’s number at govtrack.us. #SupportScience #cellbiology

Need more $ for tax cuts for billionaires? Cut funding for cancer research. Need a few extra bucks for a corporate cash grab? Cut Special Education. Donald Trump and Elon Musk's last few weeks aren't hard to understand. Just follow the money.

Don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes and call the CFPB “woke and weaponized.” The CFPB fights overdraft and junk fees, goes after lenders that target servicemembers with predatory loans, and has returned $20 billion to Americans. This is a giveaway to scammers & crooks.

How much funding would public schools in your state lose if Title I programs were cut? Use ELC's new advocacy tool to explore the impact of potential federal revenue losses. edlawcenter.org/research/tru...

🚨 The White House’s latest misinformation spree is truly absurd. WaPo fact-checked some of the most outrageous claims the GOP is making on foreign assistance—and here are the facts. 📖👇  washingtonpost.com/p...

ust reviewed the coverage of Carl Nichols' decision enjoining Trump's shutdown of USAID. Only Politico (and my own post) note that Nichols specifically said that DOJ presented no evidence of fraud or corruption. EVERY OUTLET should emphasize this. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

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This is evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Judge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison "Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

What is happening? Everyone from the heritage foundation to the national review are congratulating her.