Adventuring and teaching English @ Comp Sci High

New York, NY
Joined April 2008
RT @JamesMartinSJ: The new mural in the narthex of St Patrick's Cathedral in New York is stunning. Beautiful in design, execution and, most…
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If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.
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I really wish rich, out-of-touch folks who nothing about education would just stop. 1) Read the fine print. THIS IS A GOVT VOUCHER PROGRAM. Voucher programs have not been shown to improve results for poor Black children because most cannot get into high-quality private schools. 2) Read the fine print. All of the money is coming from taxpayers, ie. the government. Roc Nation is not funding this, it is just launching an educational campaign that maybe it is being paid to do. I'm researching. But certainly, it's involvement is to convince poor Black parents to leave the public schools. 3) What do you think that $300 million could do for improving those low-performing public schools? 4) It is a lie that these programs do not take from public-school funding. Fewer kids in the classroom means fewer dollars to the school. 5) This is a windfall to the city's private schools at the expense of the public ones that most kids attend.
Jay-Z's Roc Nation will spearhead an educational campaign in Philadelphia that helps students K-12 from low-income households secure about $300 million in scholarships to attend the city's private schools. Events will be held by Roc Nation to bring awareness to Pennsylvania Award for Student Success (PASS)—Senate Bill 757—legislation helping to increase education opportunities for underprivileged youth in lowest-performing public schools.
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Kansas City Star Editorial Board: "Republicans, our democracy depends on your willingness to read the Trump indictment" kansascity.com/opinion/edito…
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Ben Ryan retweeted
George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺
@strombo24 Mar 2023
"One of the freedoms that the Nazis crushed was the freedom to read the books that they banned”. 100 year old lays it down on Florida book banning. You tell ‘em Ms Grace Linn!
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Hey Kansas taxpayers, read the fine print. When SB 83 is fully phased in, your tax dollars will be used to help students from wealthy families to attend non-public schools. A family of 4 earning $180,000 would be eligible for the vouchers #ksleg #ksed
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Comp Sci High: A Year of Hardship and Innovation - mailchi.mp/952fbb11e165/comp…
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Looking at Black voters in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, it's striking that people who have been treated the worst by our democracy consistently do the most to save it.
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It is normal. It is expected. It is LEGAL to keep counting votes after tonight. That is fact, not an opinion and not partisan. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Some of the most popular sites for covid testing in NYC have delays of 10-14 days for results. But there are under-used sites which are much faster, including: * NYC’s 11 public hospitals (e.g. Harlem Hospital, Metropolitan, Bellevue) [more below...]
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This story about NYC's 114,000 homeless children alarmed so many people when it came out last year. It feels like these kids have begun to disappear from our debate about school reopening. Why? nytimes.com/interactive/2019…
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Concerned about what we are seeing in this video. Reaching to try and get some answers
NYC is taking after Portland - a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest - this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street
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Trump commutes the prison sentence of Roger Stone while the officers that killed Breonna Taylor are still free. The two systems of justice in this country must end.
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My babygirl is an entrepreneur. Please support Grace's Bright & Beautiful Bookmarks! Accepting payments via cashapp and PayPal $2 each
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I will vote NO on advancing the Republicans’ policing bill. It was thrown out to give lip service to the moment at hand with nothing substantial in it. We need real reform.
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#BREAKING: Sources say Florida man harassing 15-year-old black girl in viral video is Lee Jeffers, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee at @USCIS Citizenship and Immigration Services in West Palm Beach. @USCISMediaSouth is preparing a statement. palmbeachpost.com/news/20200…
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I spent the last 2 years working in the @NYCMayorsOffice. Last night I was arrested by NYPD for violating @NYCMayor's curfew while participating in a peaceful protest, and then questioned by the FBI. Story about what happened and what I saw in the thread below.
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A new study estimates that nationally 200K allegations of child maltreatment have not been made — and thus have not been investigated — due to school building closures in March and April chalkbeat.org/2020/5/18/2126…
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Ben Ryan retweeted
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar17 May 2020
AZAR: The coronavirus results for the US could've been vastly worse TAPPER: It's worse here than anywhere else A: When you look at mortality rates, that's simply not correct T: I'm looking at number of dead bodies A: The US population has significant unhealthy comorbidities
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