Derron Hilts

We need priorities that:
✅ Expand the full complement of student mental health services – school counselors, school psychologists and school social workers
✅ Include prevention for all students
✅ Keep IHEs eligible
✅ Use school-appropriate consent policies
Submit comments by Aug. 18: buff.ly/yKtuM6I

🚨 Take Action to Respond to Proposed Grant Priorities! 🚨
Proposed changes to the federal SBMH Services Grant and MHSP Grant would:
❌ Limit services to a small % of students
❌ Exclude colleges/universities from applying
❌ Create barriers for student access
❌ Disregard prevention & wellness supports

When you’re wondering how track practice is going for your toddler…

Could we ask for a worse human being to be our country’s leader?

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.

Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

At least this Republican Congressman from Kentucky is being honest. That for him representative democracy is dead. He doesn’t seem to care about wrecking the livelihoods of Kentuckians. His job is to do for his dictator in Washington, DC. His only constituent.

My 2.5 year old has been hitting me with the “Guess what?!”, followed by “Chicken Bottom!”.

FYI, in case you are considering how to refer to the gluteus maximus to your current or prospective children.

"Give the power to the states" was also the pro-slavery argument in the 1850s -- and the pro-segregation argument in the 1950s.

Title 1 schools? That’s the Department of Education.

Pell grants? That’s the Department of Education.

IEPs? That’s the Department of Education.

We need to improve education system, we do not need to eliminate the Department of Education.

Journal page limits are the thorn in my side, always.

The best time for Senator Schumer and Representative Jeffries to step down from their roles in leadership was immediately after Democrats lost the House, Senate, White House and the popular vote in November, which hadn’t happened in 20 years. The second best time for them to step down would be right now, after allowing Republicans to run over them in budget negotiations. As Republicans hold a trifecta, it was their Party’s responsibility to pass a budget and get the votes to keep the government running, not the Democratic Party. Yet, under the leadership of both Representative Jeffries and Senator Schumer, Democrats are yet again being pushed around by Republicans, which will result in working class Americans being harmed by the Republican Party’s budget. As I travel this country, I hear from people and overwhelmingly, working class Americans are growing frustrated with the feeble leadership of the Democratic Party. People want an end to the billionaire influence over our politics, universal healthcare, tuition-free college, living wages, housing for all, making corporations and the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, and a political party that fights for these things. It’s time for, not just a change in leadership, but a new direction.

My statement on the leadership of Senator Schumer and Congressman Jeffries ⬇️

Trump Republicans hate the Department of Ed for the same reasons they hate education. They view education as a waste of funds since it exposes their fraud and prevents their abuse of American minds through their outlets of disinformation. Trump Republicans want a country of believers, not thinkers.

Republicans are going to learn that hitting their opponents on the economy means they have to deliver on the economy while they’re in power.

It’s not looking good.

The state of the union?

60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

Half of Americans struggle to afford rent.

Homelessness has risen by record numbers two years in a row.

The #1 cause of bankruptcy is medical debt.

Our taxes are funding a genocide.

If trickle down economics was sound economics, Americans would be thriving right now.

It’s. Not. Trickling. Down.

It’s been nearly FIFTY years.

Bills and WR Khalil Shakir agree to terms on 4-year extension worth up to $60.2M ($32M guaranteed). (via @rapsheet1.bsky.social , @tompelissero.bsky.social)

In the first two years of Biden’s presidency, Democrats controlled the House and Senate, yet couldn’t pass voting rights, raise the minimum wage, or the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act.

“But Manchin & Sinema!” They did the bidding of their donors.

Practitioner Summary: An Investigation of Student Outcomes Based on Student-to-School Counselor Ratios

doi.org/10.7275/cspe...

#scchat

Practitioner Summary: Ecological Factors That Predict School Counselors’ Comprehensive School Counseling
Program Implementation

doi.org/10.1002/jcad...

#scchat

Democrats need to act with the same urgency they email us for money.

They need to get corporate and dark money out of the primary process.

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

The National Park Service removed references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web pages because of Trump.
 
"The rebellion at Stonewall would not have happened without trans people. To attempt to erase their existence is utterly shameful."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

READ: Ex-assistant U.S. attorney Hagan Scotten writes to Emil Bove, Trump's acting deputy AG, refusing to drop the Eric Adams case.

"…I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

Reminder: as we watch the world’s wealthiest man play President, he’s planning on spending millions in Democratic primaries in 2026 and beyond to elect conservatives.

The DNC must move to banning corporate and dark money in Democratic primaries.

ASAP.

Trump has signed an executive order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids companies in the U.S. from bribing foreign officials.

No, the billionaire President, the world’s wealthiest man, and the VP that had his Senate campaign bankrolled by a tech billionaire are not doing the bidding of the working class.

This was fun to put together in attempt to assess my time spent in research, teaching, and service since starting at NU in Fall 2022.

Grateful for @weareasca.bsky.social's leadership during these trying times #schoolcounseling #scchat

Really excited about this study being published soon!

Recently restructured our dining room to be our couch and tv area while our living room has become our dining area, office, and play area. Despite my initial reluctance, it now makes a lot of sense!

Three revise and resubmits within the past 24-hours. I should play the lottery!