Susan Ert-ker

Stop Calling It School Choice When framing a debate, it helps to pick just the right names.

What’s another phrase for the ability to pick a public school other than your neighborhood school ? Here’s an argument to STOP calling it school choice:
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National Education Association | NEA The National Education Association (NEA) is more than 3 million people—educators, students, activists, workers, parents, neighbors, friends—who believe in opportunity for all students and in the power...

We must lobby for a vision of a public school system where every neighborhood public school is plentiful in resources. We must lobby to assure that all publicly funded schools are safe and welcoming to every student.
The wording is slightly altered from a quotation on this link:
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@neatoday.bsky.social
Is the accurate? I saw this in an article: The ADL lobbies for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.
The below screenshot is from this link:
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Clearly the six subversive extremist justices want the lower courts to discuss “subject to the jurisdiction.” They want lots of voices in the conversation, yes?

Couldn’t they have accomplished that without banning nationwide injunctions? That’s what they did, correct?

Perhaps the six subversive extremists didn’t want to stay the injunction because that would have immediately harmed the plaintiffs. Admittedly I don’t understand why everyone affected has to sue which is what their ruling said, yes? If a law is unconstitutional, then it should be struck down.

Perhaps the six subversive extremists didn’t want to stay the injunction because that would have immediately harmed the plaintiffs. Also they want the lower courts to discuss “subject to the jurisdiction.”

It’s a weird law. Now the case goes back to be decided on something other than free speech rights?

Thomas was wrong about this. The better path is to make every neighborhood public school excellent NOT create vouchers. Excerpt from article:

I’m glad he’s worried about this. Excerpts from the article:
JD Vance flippantly referring to "due process" on social media, and Stephen Miller threatening to suspend habeas corpus if judges didn't "do the right thing." Habeas corpus protects against unlawful imprisonment.

I agree with this that he said. Excerpt from the article:
"It's almost dystopian. And when I think of people wrapping themselves in the Constitution while they are simultaneously doing violence to it ... it is really scary stuff,"

Frankenstein was the doctor. The monster he created had no name.

Good question! Why didn’t SCOTUS just stay the injunction rather than the awful ruling that they issued?

NEWSOM, Circuit Judge: Katie Wood is a transgender woman who teaches at a public high school in Florida. Two years ago, the state enacted Fla. Stat. § 1000.071(3), which, as applied to Wood, prohibits her from using the honorific "Ms." and the gendered pronouns "she," "her," and "hers" in exchanges with students during class time. Wood sued to enjoin the enforcement of § 1000.071(3) against her. The district court granted Wood a preliminary injunction, finding it substantially likely that the law violates her First Amendment right to free speech.

By a 2–1 vote, the 11th Circuit holds that trans teachers in Florida have NO First Amendment right to use their preferred pronouns at school.

I’m starting to wonder if conservative judges are applying the First Amendment fairly to our public school system … media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

What Trump is doing to the Education Department, USAID, and the CFPB today can be done to DHS, ICE, CBP, and any other agency tomorrow. This is the blueprint. Defund, RIF, or shutter every agency the president dislikes. Executive authority now means unilateral power to restructure the government.

The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked "deeply disturbing" attacks on the American justice system coming from senior Trump administration officials. "It's almost dystopian. And when I think of people wrapping themselves in the Constitution while they are simultaneously doing violence to it ... it is really scary stuff," Bolick told those gathered at the May event hosted by Society for the Rule of Law, a right-of-center legal organization. Though he didn't name names, the speech showed an extraordinary level of openness for a Supreme Court justice, as justices typically refrain from commenting on public affairs to avoid perceptions of bias.

A conservative Arizona Supreme Court justice is warning that the Trump administration is "doing violence" to the Constitution and publicly expressing his concerns about the emerging risk of "authoritarianism." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Here's a particularly wild exchange from yesterday's era-defining Board of Governors meeting in Florida, in which a bunch of political appointees rejected the appointment of former University of Michigan President Santa Ono as the new president at the University of Florida...

How do you feel about religious prayers said out loud from the podium at school board meetings?
Summary of what’s happening at DCPS under the leadership of Charlotte Joyce:
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YouTube video by Susan Ertker Prayer at DCPS Board Meeting

Charlotte Joyce invited a pastor to give the invocation at the school board meeting this evening which I’m fairly certain is unconstitutional. I put a clip of it on YouTube:
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What you need to share about the “one big beautiful” ugly horrible bill (Resending so you can share over email without my inadvertent notes after the “share” button)

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@mjsdc.bsky.social
Have you changed your mind now that Trump is taking over these agencies?

A few photos from today’s rally

YouTube video by Susan Ertker Clips from the April 1st DCPS Board meeting. It’s about book bans.

A few clips from April 1st DCPS Board meeting
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There is a difference between self-selecting a book and being forced to listen to a sad excerpt at a school board meeting.

Four of my school board members want to go to another SBAE conference in June. Board members wanting to go:
Joyce, Carney, Blount, and Ricardo.
It’s on page 612 of Tuesday’s agenda:
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3 Key Questions And the State of Florida Vision

It is sad that Senator Yarborough is promoting these horrible bills.

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Once DeSantis’ cheerleaders, Florida GOP puts his administration under scrutiny Florida Republicans once catered to Ron DeSantis’ political agenda.

@miamiherald.com article excerpt:
“I’m encouraged by the trend, because it means that the Legislature is asserting its independence,” he said. “It is long overdue.”
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Do you agree? Charter School Financial Statements issued after HB 1259 (2023) took effect should have disclosed the relationship between the lessor and the charter school.  If they didn’t, the financial statements should be resubmitted.