Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)

Article from The Economist Governments should stop raising the minimum wage There are better ways to help low earners

This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.

these professions also lean more toward women. and restricting loans so that it's more difficult to enter into the profession.

1/ It should be forgiven. It should be forgotten. If she spoke of it again, the sins would be hers, she was told.

But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls.

This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇

[content warning: sexual abuse]

Latino Families Show High Demand for Bilingual Education, Poll Finds Families in California were polled as to their interest in bilingual education programs.

"We can go ahead and put to bed the notion that there is widespread majority support for English-only education amongst Latino communities." www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

U.S. Department of Education Announces Six New Agency Partnerships to Break Up Federal Bureaucracy ED announced six new interagency agreements to break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs, activities, and move closer to fulfilling the President Trump's...

Trump continues to dismantle Department of Education

Labor will now administer K12 education grants including Title I
(bc of course education is for the purpose of labor)

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

yes! felt a slow rumble in SLO.

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a lower court order requiring full SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown, allowing Trump to continue with partial payments instead.

I see James Watson has died.

What did Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.

Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

Congrats to Cal Poly on the #FamilyU Seal Designation for Dedication to Serving Student Parents.

ucm.calpoly.edu/news/cal-pol...

#StudentParents
#ParentingStudents
#HigherEd

Bio up for the Data and Tools Advisory Board with the California Cradle to Career Data System. 3 year term. 2025-2028.
Learn more about the state's efforts: c2c.ca.gov
Lots of opportunities for public engagement
#BigData
#CradleToCareer #Cradle2Career
#DataTransparency
#Data2Action

Giving States Waivers From Accountability Is a Dangerous Step Backward for Kids Forte: By loosening testing and reporting requirements, Education Department is denying parents, teachers and policymakers important information.

"Without this information, there is no way to know how schools are working to address academic and opportunity disparities — particularly for Black and Latino students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities and those from low-income backgrounds." www.the74million.org/article/givi...

Absolutely! This is why universal free lunch exists: so that we would not means test children eating food *and* poor kids would not be stigmatized.

The idea is that everyone gets to eat. And no child is hungry at school.

Yes, that's me. Date: ~2000. My first teaching position.
#TheOnion
#StockPhoto
#InternetFame

Powerful piece by my colleague K. Pale @hechingerreport.org
"That is the power of advocacy. It turns exclusion into inclusion. It rewrites the rules not just for one person, but for those who come after."
hechingerreport.org/opinion-student-parents-belong-on-college-campuses-so-do-their-children/?

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

Punchbowl reports “White House officials determined they do not have the authority” to use contingency reserves —billions of $ that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate— to fund Nov. SNAP benefits. But, that’s not what USDA’s now-deleted shutdown plan says:

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

All politics is local.

Vote out your state reps who peddle in this dangerous anti-science nonsense.

The Trump Administration Can and Should Take Available Steps to Ensure SNAP Participants Get November Food Benefits Nearly two-thirds of the funds needed for a full month of benefits are available in SNAP’s contingency fund and must be used when regular funding for SNAP runs short. The Administration must release t...

#SNAP helps 1 in 8 people in the U.S. buy groceries each month. The Administration has the legal authority and funding to keep benefits flowing through November as well as can and should act quickly to do so. www.cbpp.org/blog/the-tru...

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House.

This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

I'm reminded by this quote, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." (& yes, we can build more tables.)
Data & Tools Advisory board w/ California's Cradle-to-Career Data System.
Learn more: c2c.ca.gov

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

“if the administration succeeds in its plans to cut the 2026 federal science budget to $154 billion from $198 billion — a 25 percent reduction — it would represent the smallest amount that the federal government has spent on science in this century”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Trump Admin. Cuts Some Teacher-Training Grants for English Learners The Trump administration has cut funding for some English learner PD grants, sparking confusion and prompting appeals.

quoted.
#TitleIII #OELA #EnglishLearners
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Commentary: Beyond Visibility: Using Student Parent Narratives to Enhance Data Collection.
#ParentingStudents #StudentParents #HigherEd
castudentparentalliance.org/resources/ad...

"From campus struggles to statewide change"
@stanfordeducation.bsky.social
ed.stanford.edu/about/commun...

Check out the public event and related resources:
Lessons on Collecting Data and Driving Change to Support Student Parent Success.
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social
#ParentingStudents #StudentParents #HigherEd
www.urban.org/events/lesso...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...