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Christa Salazar

@christasalazar.bsky.social
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World champion lurker Have worked in education, news, and education news PSLF recipient and student loan forgiveness enthusiast

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 05/09/2026
CalMatters is hiring two education reporters! The first position is to cover K-12 schools. The other position is to cover early childhood education. Please share this post with your networks. cal.news/4iNP5II
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Education Reporter
CalMatters is seeking two experienced reporters to cover California education. The first position is to cover K-12 schools. The other position is to cover early childhood education. The K-12 reporter will cover the largest K-12 system in the country, with nearly 10,000 schools serving more than 5 million students. The early education reporter will focus […]
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For @damemagazine.bsky.social's American Repair series, I spoke to experts about solutions to the student debt crisis, including debt cancellation and a college for all bill, increasing certainty through expanded aid, and much more. “I’m not kidding you, I wake up every day panicked about this.”
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The Student Debt Crisis Needs More Than Another Repayment Plan
The student debt crisis won’t be solved by repayment plans alone. Experts say affordable college, stronger financial aid, and debt cancellation are key.
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The College Investor @thecollegeinvestor.com · 18/08/2026
The government can garnish up to 15% of a Social Security check over a defaulted student loan. A new Sanders bill would ban the practice entirely. #StudentLoans #SocialSecurity
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New Senate Bill Would Ban Social Security Offsets As 9 Million Borrowers Sit In Default
Bernie Sanders' Stop Social Security Garnishment Act would ban seizing Social Security checks to collect defaulted student loans. What the bill does.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/06/2026
Avenue Q: Don’t get him started on student loans. Gypsy: Don’t get him started on his mom. Sweeney Todd: Don’t get him started on anything. buff.ly/yUFKSXg
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What a Straight Man’s Favorite Musical Says About Him
The Music Man: He logged more than 50 hours of detention in high school. Les Misérables: He took inspirational school assemblies very seriously. Phantom of t...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat
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Higher Education Reporter at THE CITY
About THE CITYThe Organization THE CITY is New York City’s award-winning nonprofit, nonpartisan local news organization. Working across all five boroughs, our stellar journalists bring diverse skills ...
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Ahab @ahab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’ve come to the position that you can tell pretty much everything you need to know about a person from whether they want to help others avoid what they suffered or force them to suffer it as well.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
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Ron Lieber @ronlieber.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
When rich schools trumpet more generous financial aid policies, as Harvard did just now, these are the sentences I seize on: "Just over half of Harvard’s undergrads receive financial aid,." That means 45% or so can afford $83k per year. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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Harvard Will Make Tuition Free for More Students
Harvard is the latest elite school to announce that families with incomes of $200,000 and under will not pay tuition as a way to bolster diversity.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
if you need a laugh, go watch the scene from Abbott Elementary's latest episode when Jacob sings Papa Roach at karaoke
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
If you are following me because of my reporting on the Education Dept, I want to shout out some smaller ed-focused outlets that do great work you should also read: Ed Week Chronicle of Higher Education Inside Higher Ed The 74 Chalkbeat When I'm focused on ED stuff, I read these every day
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
DOE = Department of Energy ED = Education Department
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mike Davis was born on this day in 1946. “At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”
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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 10/03/2025
"I'm sorry, a Caucasian kid from a nice zip code that has a 4.3 or whatever...You know what? You don't get into college with that anymore." (A visit to pretty much any selective college would disabuse this woman of this notion. Plenty suburban white kids.) www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...
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Should You Hire a $100,000 College Admissions Counselor?
They command enormous fees to insert themselves in your teenager’s life, choosing classes, extracurriculars—even summer activities—all in the pursuit of creating the perfect college candidate. Good lu...
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 10/03/2025
At this point, I think every institution just has to assume that they're not going to get federal funding or at least come up with a contingency plan in the event their federal funding is eliminated. Cities, states, universities, nonprofits...you just cannot rely on getting money from the feds now.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
MOTHER OF GOD look at how they staged this house
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:
After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission.

We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people.

The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions:
Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education.
Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus.
Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs. 
Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics.
As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals

Removing red tape and bureaucratic barriers will empower parents to make th
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 28/02/2025
As schools across the country prepare for potential immigration raids, educators are recognizing the striking parallels with the threat of gun violence.
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The Parallels Between Gun Violence and Immigration Arrests at Schools
One high school teacher in El Paso said her preparations for shootings and ICE raids felt one and the same.
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David Pollack @davidmpollack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The most challenging markets for young adults looking to buy homes have school districts with dwindling enrollment. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
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Bay Area city is tops nationwide in an unfortunate category
San Jose has the lowest percentage of homeowners under 30 nationwide. High housing costs keep young buyers out, with California cities dominating the list.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If I were MacKenzie Scott, I would simply start a newspaper based in Washington DC.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I still don't have a flyer to share for when I go to Northwestern next month but I'm very excited that I get to present my work on how Columbia and Northwestern hold too much power over producing reporters...at Columbia and Northwestern.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"A school principal recently called Castillo in tears after a family reached out to say they were too afraid to go buy groceries. The principal went shopping for the family and delivered $100 in groceries to their home — and then sat with the family and cried, Castillo said."
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Schools around the US confront anxiety over Trump's actions on immigration
President Donald Trump’s immigration policies already are affecting schools across the country. Officials have found themselves responding to rising anxiety among parents and their children, including...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. —James Baldwin
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@usapolling.bsky.social if DOE = Department of Education that's wrong. DOE = Department of Energy ED = Department of Education
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a cartoon of a man with the words and knowing is half the battle below him .
ALT: a cartoon of a man with the words and knowing is half the battle below him .
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025
Need a white guy to walk confidently into a federal building and delete all the student loans files
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Not a top reason why it's all collapsing, but the MPA (an advanced degree in governance) not being treated as prestigiously as the MBA, MD or JD has created one more exploitable gap for the right to destroy government. We only value profit-driven education. Public service is always an afterthought.
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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A federal judge -- for a few days, at least -- has blocked Musk's DOGE team from accessing Education Department student loan data: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Judge sides with UC students, blocks DOGE from Education Department loan data
A federal judge grants UC students a short-term win, blocking Elon Musk's DOGE team from Education Department loan data.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 11/02/2025
a lot of multicultural centers, pride centers, women's centers, etc. were created, in part, as retention tools -- that their funding and existence are under attack is not a coincidence.
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Carolyn Chernoff @carolynchernoff.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If your city has a public school CEO or superintendent who made any kind of public announcement about protecting kids/families from ICE or support regardless of immigration status, I encourage you to call or otherwise publicly thank them. They like it! 1/2
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025
Just so you know the tik tok financial people are pushing people with student loans to file for discharging alleging doge is violating ferpa leading to a breach of contract. Also there are lawsuits www.courthousenews.com/students-sue...
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Students sue over DOGE’s access to Education Department data
Elon Musk’s DOGE reportedly accessed sensitive information provided by tens of millions of Americans who applied for federal student loans.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I can’t imagine being mediocre and then filing a lawsuit to share that information with the world. My god.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025
The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.
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The University of California Increased Diversity. Now It’s Being Sued.
The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and Hispanic students. A new group is suing, arguing the university system is cheating...
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 05/02/2025
"It’s been 15 months since I last stepped into a classroom. Because here in Gaza, the concept of a "regular school year" has been stolen from us." In this op-ed, a 19-year-old former college student in Gaza shares her experience. ⤵️
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I Live in Gaza and There Are Almost No Schools Left Here
The United Nations has described what’s happening as “scholasticide.”
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Any day I get to be quoted next to @bakerdphd.bsky.social and @jscottclayton.bsky.social in the @miamiherald.com on #Studentloans and the impending chaos of Trump 2.0 - is a great day! #Academicsky #highered www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Trump wants to dissolve Education Department. Here’s how it could impact student loans
Disruption to the Department of Education could have long-term impacts on aid and student loans, experts say.
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LeCaffeinated @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
No U.S. Dept of Ed, no U.S. Dept of Ed loans to pay back, amirite?
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen
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