So late last month, Professor Salas-de la Cruz & Paul Boxer, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Newark, drafted a one-page “mutual defense compact.” It was a one-for-all, all-for-one statement of solidarity among #schools in the #BigTen athletic & #academic conference—18 large, predominantly #public #universities that together enroll ~600k students each year. “An infringement against one member university,” they wrote, “shall be considered an infringement against all.”
#schools
What #Schools Can Do About #ClimateChange Right Now
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-schools-can-do-about-climate-change-right-now/2025/05
This evil even has a name now: scholasticide. What a horrible word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticide#Palestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_schools_during_the_Israeli_invasion_of_Gaza
#FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Genocide #Scholasticide #education #teachers #school #schools
JIMENA shared an article:
"Gabriel Medina, a Pajaro Valley Unified School District board trustee, launched an unprovoked attack on the organization, JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, during a discussion of the district’s ethnic studies curriculum at a March 28 board meeting.
Our concerns about the model curriculum stemmed from its serious educational and ethical failings: It lacked any educational content on antisemitism. It failed to meet the State Board of Education’s statutory guidelines for the curriculum.
And it included two contentious lesson plans on Arab studies, while completely excluding Jewish and other non-Muslim Middle Eastern voices. In doing so, the model curriculum perpetuated the same legacies of oppression and cultural erasure that many Middle Eastern minorities — including Jews, Assyrians, Yezidis, Kurds and Coptic Christians — fled."
Link: https://jweekly.com/2025/05/01/school-board-trustees-antisemitism-raises-bigger-issue/
#Trump has proposed cutting spending on #CivilRights enforcement in #schools, work-study programs & services for #students from disadvantaged backgrounds. But one corner of the education budget he would boost: #CharterSchools [I wonder if this has something to do w/the #religious charter school case before #SCOTUS right now]. His budget proposal would increase federal support for new charter schools by $60 million, or about 8.3%.
Major #health cutbacks: The budget proposes massive cuts at the #NIH & #CDC, but it includes $500M for *Health* #RFKJr’s signature initiative: Make America Healthy Again. The CDC’s budget would be cut by more than half, to $4B from roughly $9B.
Significant reduction in #education: Education spending would fall by $12 billion under #Trump’s 2026 blueprint, w/the most significant cut coming from a plan to “streamline” #TitleI money for high-#poverty #schools & other #K12 programs.
“Whenever they try to ban drag, we just put students in drag, bitch.”
New today from Joelle DiPaolo: Brigitte Bandit and other queens staged a joyful protest at the UT #Austin campus over a university ban on #drag performances. https://www.texasobserver.org/university-texas-students-day-of-drag-defiance/
#Texas #politics #USpol #UTAustin #news #education #LGBTQIA+ #trans #transphobia #TXlege #schools
"The Education Department is cutting approximately $1 billion worth of federal mental health grants approved by Congress in the wake of a 2022 Texas elementary school mass shooting. The agency concluded the funding conflicts with Trump administration priorities."
#MentalHealth #GunViolence #GunSafety #schools #uvalde #PublicHealth
**Have you ever been bombed en route to #market?**
Gaza has. Prolly #today.
**Did your kids miss the bus and have to walk to school?**
Gaza kids have no #limbs, and no #schools.
**Did you pick up your #prescriptions?**
Gaza has no #medicine, and their #doctors lay torn open and bleeding in the gutted #streets.
**Did you remember to hydrate?**
Gaza has no clean #water and #drinks from puddles to #survive.
**Did you #eat today?**
#GAZA HASN'T.
#FEEDGAZA
#FREEPALESTINE 🇵🇸 #NOW!!!
The Miscalculations of Covid School Closures
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miscalculations-of-covid-small-school-closures
#ycombinator #covid_19 #learning #education #schools #children #health
The Supreme Court Is About to Let Religion Ruin Public Education
#education #schools #fascism #trump #scotus #firstamendment #churchstateseparation #usconstitution
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/supreme-court-oklahoma-catholic-charter-school/
#NewBrunswick Anglophone West is eliminating its entire library staff in schools across the district next year in response to a planned $9.26 million budget cut from the province.
So short sited. Buckets of evidence of how well staffed and funded libraries improve learning.
FASCISM FOR KIDS
dead eye generations
#StephenMiller #DeadEyes #NextGeneration #YourChildren #TheirControl #Fascism #Children #Schools #FascismForKids #Indoctrination #USA
Ms. Wall said this was “a common-sense practice” w/proven results.
“One of the first questions after every single #SchoolShooting is whether the student had access to #MentalHealth support & services,” Ms. Wall said. “It is no stretch to say that taking away this support introduces the risk of harm to #school communities & #students.”
#law #Trump #GunViolence #schools #children #SchoolShootings
3 #Republican senators, #JohnCornyn of TX, #SusanCollins of ME & #ThomTillis of NC, who wrote a column in support of the #law 3 years ago did not return calls seeking comment.
…“What’s the point of being in #Congress & writing laws if the president can just ignore them? So, I’m angry that my Republican partners are not out there raising objections to what the president is doing,” Sen #ChrisMurphy said in an interview.
#Trump #GunViolence #schools #children #SchoolShootings #MentalHealth
Another highlighted the importance of handling “racial stress & trauma” of students. One applicant’s training included understanding “the influences of racism & white privilege in education practice.” [like I said above]
Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) who helped negotiate the #legislation, said it was #illegal for any president to halt funding approved by #Congress & called on Republican supporters to stand up for the #law.
#law #Trump #GunViolence #schools #children #SchoolShootings #MentalHealth
A line in an additional application Biedermann pointed to included training for #MentalHealth professionals that included helping counselors “recognize & challenge systemic injustices, antiracism & the pervasiveness of white supremacy to ethically support diverse communities.” [not for nothing, but a lot of the shooters turn out to be racists]
#law #Trump #GunViolence #schools #children #SchoolShootings
Biedermann declined to provide applications that the dept viewed as discriminatory, citing privacy laws. Instead, she offered examples of specific provisions pulled from lengthy applications.
A provision in one application set a “diversity goal” of hiring 8 nonwhite counselors out of a total of 24. [that’s only ⅓ FFS]
#law #Trump #GunViolence #schools #children #SchoolShootings #MentalHealth
“Under the deeply flawed priorities of the #Biden administration, grant recipients used the funding to implement race-based actions like recruiting quotas in ways that have nothing to do with #MentalHealth & could hurt the very students the grants are supposed to help,” said Madi Biedermann, the dept’s dpty asst secy for communications.
[ridiculous]
#law #Trump #GunViolence #schools #children #SchoolShootings
The dept did not specify a #CivilRights #law [there isn’t one] or provide the grant recipients with any evidence of violations….
An *#Education* Dept spox confirmed that the #grants had been discontinued because of a particular focus on increasing the diversity of psychologists, counselors & other #MentalHealth workers. [nonsense]
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