Dad, Organizer. @ Race Forward, leading H.E.A.L. Together (Honest Education Action & Leadership) founder of Rights & Democracy VT/NH, People’s Action Board
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Going to get into the basketball side of all this shortly, but before that:
Jaylen Brown embraced this city & community in a way few pro athletes have. The youth in this city will never forget it. There's a legacy/impact here that is so much deeper than basketball.
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” invests over $50 BILLION per year for vouchers that let private schools pick and choose which students to educate.
The American people do not want to privatize public education, they want to strengthen it.
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In this Defense of Democracy @_dofd podcast, Karen Svoboda talks with Glenn Harris and James Haslam of Race Forward about the history of public education, the #PublicSchoolStrong campaign, and how public education is the foundation for a just democracy.
defenseofdemocracy.org/podca…
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This is day 3 of my 4 day *Education Wars* tour through Iowa. In cities and rural areas hearing the same thing: GOP here is actively working to make Iowa a worse place to live & dismantling public schools is at the heart of that project cciaction.org/events
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New post by Nick Covington: This is how we win the education war
(Jennifer Berkshire @BisforBerkshire, co-author of The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual, is coming to Iowa soon)
bleedingheartland.com/2024/0…
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A special shoutout to Becky Pringle of @NEAToday and her remarkable speech at the DNC last month. She highlights the importance of education as a foundation of our country, with her notable background in education for over 30 years.
#PublicSchoolStrong #DNC
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Please like & share if you stand with Haiti and Haitians
Another African American brother from Springfield Ohio speaks out
"I hear familiar accusations against us for centuries..You called us the same thing to dehumanize us. We stand with Haitians"
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From my interview on the @thereidout "They want peace. They don't want our money to be going to weapons. We want to be able to keep our hospitals in Georgia open. We want to be able to...reopen the OBGYN clinics where half of our counties don't have one in Georgia." #GAPol
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Walz on Vance: "I can't wait to debate the guy...that is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up."
[crowd loses it's shit]
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Walz would be a game-changing VP pic.
Again and again he reads as:
✅Not condescending
✅Actually interested in people's lives
✅Laser focused on substantive policies (food, health, ed) that will reduce daily stress and drag us out of conspiracy land podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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*There's much more voter energy for protecting and improving public schools than there is for byzantine public-private schemes that benefit the well-off more than they do disadvantaged youth* Terrific @KizzyRocNRolla breakdown on why Shapiro = a bad choice inthesetimes.com/article/kam…
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This @StrikeDebt workshop on school district budget crises starring @schooldaves, @nora_delacour & others looks fantastic. Highly recommend if you're trying to make sense of what's happening and/or want to organize in your community debtcollective.org/event/cli…
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Kind of amazing that education funding & school lunch turned out to be key in getting the French to vote against fascism. Taking this as a win for my lonely insistence that public education is a *popular front* issue
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This review of our soon-to-be released book, The Education Wars, by @nora_delacour for @jacobin is just amazing. Not sure I’ve ever read a book review that left me feeling so inspired! jacobin.com/2024/06/public-s…
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A shocking 44% of public school teachers are now quitting the profession within five years.
Teacher are massively underpaid. Four hedge fund managers make more than 120,000 kindergarten teachers combined.
Bernie Sanders just held a Senate hearing on how teachers are underpaid.
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ALT “Rep. Jamaal Bowman faced an avalanche of outside spending from AIPAC and its GOP donors. Even with a powerful, multi-racial coalition behind him, it wasn’t enough to overcome the onslaught of attack ads and misinformation. “AIPAC’s spending is an act of desperation from a lobby group that knows their position has lost all credibility. Poll after poll shows that the American people want a ceasefire and the conditioning of U.S. military aid. This is why AIPAC’s ads have avoided any mention of the human rights catastrophe in Gaza. “We’re in a critical political moment. If we hope to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy, we need to be united in calling out AIPAC’s efforts to unseat working-class candidates of color who are holding the moral center in Congress.”
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In 2024, "centrism" isn't cautious, it's reckless. It creates the conditions under which the radical racist right is surging.
Fight the far right by redistributing ill-gotten gains of pandemic profiteers + polluters to pay for Green New Deal-style programs. That's pragmatic.
🔥Superb point from @NaomiAKlein
Labour are making no sudden moves that may spook their GE chances- but if they *do* keep the tight economic straitjackets of the last govt (Brexit included btw)…
…they risk the Scholz error, teeing up a far right surge.
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Listen to Toby Hedgepeth's moving remarks about her experience as a #PublicSchoolStrong member and leader in North Carolina in a conversation with @NEAToday president @BeckyPringle -
youtube.com/watch?v=CmECXjt0… @DownHome_NC
