The October Chi Bd of Ed meeting is starting. By the way, CPS still limits number of people in meeting room and the number of speakers (used to be 60, now 30), based on COVID protocols? It seems odd, given that schools are mask optional with no social distancing... doesn't it?

Sharing my piece in the The Washington Post about migrant youth exp & the hard work of educators & school-based personnel in supporting them amid political spectacles. S/0 Campbell F. Scribner Valerie Strauss Challenges young immigrants face w/ U.S. public schools washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

Public education shouldn't be a pipeline to sustain the world as it is. It should be a pipeline to create what it aught to be. If done with fidelity, that should ruffle the feathers of those with power.

“The burden of disease—in terms of deaths, illness and economic costs—was borne disproportionately by the poor, women, and people of color. The poor were America’s essential workers, on the frontlines, saving lives and also incurring disease and death.” newyorker.com/news/essay/who…

For every 'pay teachers more' post (which we should!), there are like 50 'I'm leaving because my school is an abusive, toxic place' posts.

It's always a combo of the same two problems: A toxic, narcissistic school leadership and/or completely out of control student behavior.

In spring 2020, when other countries closed all schools, Sweden kept primary schools open, with mandatory in-person attendance and without protective measures such as testing or quarantines.

Sweden then told the world COVID didn't spread in schools. It wasn't true. 🧵

'School choice' is the background issue that's driving attacks on our public school systems. Let's take a moment to realize two things about privatization. Firstly, the modern school privatization movement emerged in response to desegregation.

southerneducation.org/publications/h…

Chicago is the most corrupt city in the nation. But it doesn't have to be that way.

We have big news: Today, the McCormick Foundation announced a $1.6 million grant for Block Club to build an investigative team to root out corruption, wrongdoing and inequity. buff.ly/3RiGiNI

Instead of hassling people on Twitter about how they should have handled #Ian , donate to @fishofsancap who does amazing work to support low-income and working class people on Sanibel.

How to help someone with a mental health emergency in Chicago without calling the police. I explain here and have learned even more for an Axios follow up next week.
axios.com/local/chicago/…

You’d think the city with the second-highest Latinx population would, idk, fly a Mexican flag for Independence Day?

This is why Quinta won an Emmy for writing

'That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.'
— Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1))

Cardi Instagram speaking about worldwide inflation and its a effects on working class people

A 17 year old Kenwood Academy student was killed during open campus lunch. Police say he got into an altercation and then was being chased by a vehicle and was shot. This is ... the fifth student shot near school in three weeks since school started?
chicago.suntimes.com/2022/9/9/23344…

This is my son's school and also could be any school in any town on any day in America. I hate what we're doing to our kids, our educators, our parents, our communities. We've lost our way and I wonder how we'll find it again.

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The anti-hate group ADL reports on data indicating that at least three elected officials in #Illinois signed up for #OathKeepers , an extremist group whose founder faces seditious conspiracy charges tied to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Who are the three?

Back-to-back shootings show the long-term impact of gun violence on Chicago schools ckbe.at/3BloJrz