Non-binary students are lost in the data. States can help Each June, schools celebrate Pride Month. But without inclusive data systems, many non-binary students remain invisible.

Data systems are not neutral. When states fail to recognize non-binary students, they contribute to their invisibility. @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social and I outline steps states can take to ensure all students are seen, supported, and safe. districtadministration.com/opinion/non-...

This will brighten your day.

The longstanding Charles Sumner elementary school in Boston is merging with another BPS school next year into the Sarah Roberts school.

Sarah Roberts was the 5yo plaintiff in the first school segregation case in 1849, and she was represented by Charles Sumner and Robert Morris.

Supreme Court Not Sure Why You Thought the Equal Protection Clause Meant Anything A law banning healthcare for trans kids does not discriminate against trans kids, and other pearls of wisdom from the country’s sharpest legal minds.

The ban on gender affirming care for trans kids that the Court upheld as constitutional today in Skrmetti is so obviously *un*constitutional that John Roberts basically just writes 20something pages of buffoonery

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

Supreme Court upholds Tenn. ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights - The Boston Globe In a huge setback for transgender rights, the Supreme Court said Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors did not violate the 14th Amendment.

Trans kids suffer when they don't get medically-necessary care. This is a brazen political decision by the Supreme Court.

My heart is with trans kids and their loved ones. I won’t stop fighting to make sure they can be exactly who they are.

What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

So honored to be able to share a localized, participatory model of school integration at this time of backlash!

While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!

This post is a follow-up from a piece published by @tcfdotorg.bsky.social where @vitaebella.bsky.social adds civic engagement to the 5 R's of real/holistic school integration.

In each post, activism is reframed in light of our current & quite extraordinary challenges. Both are good reads!

How Local Community Coalitions Can Build Solidarity to Promote School Integration The School Diversity Notebook is excited to offer a guest post from Dr. Liz Nigro (she/her)!  Liz is a former public elementary school teacher, who worked for four years as a general and speci…

If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us.

New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.

sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...

hi MY name is Peter I am running for the school comedy and I was wontering if you could Vote for me I will make learning easier for children Who speak different. LanguAgeS. I WIll WOrk to stop mcas Will you vote for me?

As soon as I told my daughter (2nd grader at Salemwood) that I was running, she drafted my stump speak literally on the back of an envelope.

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If you’d like to follow my “School Comedy” campaign, I’ll post occasional updates here and you can also fill out this short contact form.

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She’s right that I’m not a big fan of MCAS. I work for a group that’s developing an alternative.

We talk about how many students at her school are learning in their non-native language, so I guess that’s what she’s referring to when she says I will “make learning easier” for multilingual students.

Piazza4Malden Ward 6 School Committee Website for Peter Piazza's school committee campaign in Malden Ward 6

Good people of Malden - and especially Ward 6 - I’m running to be your rep on the School Committee.

Here’s my campaign website: piazza4malden.my.canva.site#home

Tell your friends! #MAedu #Malden #edpolicy

YouTube video by NBC10 Boston High school student detained by ICE for days speaks out after release

Worth watching the entire press conference from this immensely composed 18-year-old high schooler who got out of nearly a week in ICE custody just an hour before. youtu.be/aLb1WLw3VoE

Auchincloss and Moulton:

“We support strong borders and deporting criminals, the police and “law and order” but Marcelo should not have been in there”

Marcelo: NO ONE should be in there.

‘Outraged’: Healey demands answers, community rallies after Milford HS student detained by ICE - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News MILFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - Gov. Maura Healey is demanding answers and a large crowd held a rally in Milford after an 18-year-old Milford High School<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/new...

This is wrong. Period. An 18-year-old should feel safe to drive to volleyball practice without being profiled and arrested by ICE. How can anyone be okay with what is happening in the United States right now? Free Marcello Gomes Da Silva and all the others now! whdh.com/news/outrage...

‘Bring Marcelo home’: After commencement, Milford protests ICE for detaining high school student - The Boston Globe Instead of performing with the Milford High School band at Sunday's graduation, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva was detained by immigration officials.

More than 1000 people showed up to protest the abduction of a high school student in Milford, MA.

“Hands off our kids,” they chanted.

This is how we move forward. By seeing everyone else’s kids as our kids. This is the way.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/01/m...

Trump’s Justice Department is Making Schools Segregated Again Revoking a 60-year-old desegregation order in Louisiana will make it harder for Black families to protect their children from the scourge of segregation.

"[Court desegregation orders] could have been helpful to any Phoenix High families (94% Black) trying to protect their kids from lead poisoning. But because of Trump’s Justice Department, that tool is no longer available."

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk Predominantly White educator groups often struggle to talk about race, even when that is their explicit aim. This study examines conversational patterns in one district’s antiracist book study to e...

New publication in Equity & Excellence in Education: Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk w/ @yrboohilary.bsky.social @jmnoonan.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...

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100 Years Before Brown v. Board of Education, This 5-Year-Old Girl Resisted Segregation Sarah Roberts had to walk past five white schools on her way to the one Black school every morning.

Teen Vogue has some of the best contemporary writing on school segregation. #MAEdu

www.teenvogue.com/story/sarah-...

And here's three years of data for kindergarteners from 2021-2024

"Unimmunized=students with an exemption that have no documented vaccines. No Record=students reported as not having an immunization record on file. Gap=students that have neither all vaccines required nor an exemption." *means school didn't respond. † means too few students, data not released.

As a parent to young kids I was curious what measles vaccinations looked like in Worcester schools, and found charts from MA Dept of Health & Human Services. www.mass.gov/info-details...

This is well-said.

@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social and @markey.senate.gov, when are you going to start speaking out on this?

We Have Rights

Super helpful multilingual video resource for vulnerable people and those who want to help document ICE encounters.
Please share!
www.wehaverights.us

If you're looking for something on that Feb 14 #DEI letter.

Something short that outlines how bad it is, how wrong they are in their "analysis" of previous SCOTUS cases. Maybe something that also has a teaching guide. #edpolicy

We got you covered right here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TnGz...

When funding follows the student, school segregation increases.

In metro Detroit, when the % change in Black student enrollment increases by 1 standard deviation, white students are 99x (!) more likely to leave the district.

Via @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social & colleagues

epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

Since the recommendation that FIVE (FIVE?!!?) charter expansions move forward at tomorrow's #MAEdu Board of Ed, I will again note that the Governor has at least three seats she should have filled and has not.

who-cester.blogspot.com/2025/02/heal...

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