North Carolina’s Lawrence Academy has never reported Black enrollment higher than 3% in a county whose population hovers around 60% Black.
It received $518,240 in vouchers in the 2023-2024 school year to fund 86 of its over 200 students.
(Published Nov. 2024)
I can answer this one. The president of the United States is dangerously psychotic and no one in his political party will say it, nor will 95% of American media.
Measles flourishing unnecessarily, especially in SC. No child needs to suffer like this. RFK & Dr. Oz, and all those fakes who follow them, are endangering America's children.
Why Public School Families Are Protesting Linda McMahon’s Visits www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
They are all children of immigrants.
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According to mandated JLARC study (2024 @marcussimon.com resolution) on school book censorship, the book removals are concentrated in a small number of (hyperpartisan?) school districts, who mostly claim to be wrongly interpreting the recent law as giving them that authority.
This is just sick.
via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
Republicans quietly passed a first-of-its-kind national school choice program in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” but celebration among advocates was tempered after the Senate added a provi...
Our Town Hall event in Richmond is one week away - we hope to see you there!
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Sens. Warner, Kaine accuse Trump administration of illegally withholding $108 million from Virginia K-12 schools
Source: cvillerightnow.com
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Day 2 of #teacherappreciationweek 🍎 Found this 1866 gem in the Valley of the Shadow archives, educator John Scott in 🗺️ Augusta Co, VA: valley.newamericanhistory.org/letters/A7114
The rush to vouchers is neither a mass movement of parents nor a tidal wave of history. It’s just an ongoing demand for a garden variety special interest subsidy that happens to be backed by some of the wealthiest people on the planet. Things change, and they will again."
In spite of the push to vouchers, Josh Cowen's latest newsletter has an accurate perspective:
"All of this means that right-wing billionaires don’t always win—even when it comes to their GOP allies. It’s possible to delay and even stop the so-called inevitable.
