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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I also walked by the restaurant used as the exterior for the diner in Seinfeld. A cultural smorgasbord today!

US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I am getting too into adobe express for my Instagram posts but as a 20+ year adobe product veteran it is satisfying. They de-annoyinged it while still allowing enough features to be creative.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

These are my perfect baby boy gentlemen:

Two cats on a tan cat tree - the one on the top level is orange striped and the one below is a black and white tuxedo cat. Both look vaguely annoyed!

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“Education is warfare” is a guiding principle of both Logos School/Press and the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS). US Dept of Education Deputy Chief of Staff Lindsey Burke spoke at the ACCS education conference in 2024.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My husband (new US citizen) and I took our 4yo to vote with us today after school! It was 101 degrees out but nice and cool in the gym-turned-voting-site. And they had cute “future voter” stickers which my son used to decorate his bike!

Blue and red sticker which reads “I’m a future voter in the city of New York” on a neon yellow bike

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In personal news, I finally got some finger tattoos I’ve been wanting forever ✨

Left hand with white skin and shimmery nails with fine-line stars and sparkle finger tattoos

Right hand with white skin and shimmery nails with fine-line stars and sparkle finger tattoos

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The description for this new formula grant is pure Project 2025 nonsense. “Patriotic education” and “red tape” (if I never see either phrase again it’ll be too soon).

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

As a former art teacher this makes me especially sad; we all know given the choice districts aren’t going to spend this amount (or any?) on art education.

Screenshot of FY2026 budget consolidating arts education grant into single K-12 grant

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Also - new name and slightly new banner! I have been paying attention to ALL education news (not solely US Department of Ed-related) and wanted the site to reflect that a bit better. I'll be keeping the URL the same for now, though.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Rufus is so proud of her and sends orange cat solidarity

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I made a little digital illustration for my website header! Nice to get back into doing art after making spreadsheets.

Digital illustration of US Department of Education building in grey, beige and black.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

PERSONAL: Happy St Patrick’s Day! ☘️🇮🇪 Ireland is one of my favorite countries so here’s some photos from our visit to Dublin last year:

A brown and white cow in front of a green pasture with trees and hills in the background

A jersey calf looking at the camera, standing in a stall with straw bedding

A photo of the sign at the “gay Spar” in Dublin

Low tide at the Irish coast in a Dublin suburb.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Firing almost half of ED has nothing to do with “saving money” - this is just dismantling the federal government and terrorizing federal employees (from r/fednews on Reddit)

Screenshot from r/fednews subreddit:

Title: 15 Year Fed RIFed Today at ED

Body: This is so horrible. My whole office was let go. Everyone I know outside of my office was let go.
The money allocated is not going to go to the states. No money is being saved by letting us go and terminating contracts.
My only solace is the 2 trump supporters in my office FAFO and were let go as well.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In other news, finally visited @momaps1.bsky.social for the first time in 12 years and saw this gorgeous exhibit:

Three textile and mixed media sculptures of human-like forms arranged in an art gallery in a diagonal line.

Drawings and paintings of people on a white gallery wall.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My @haymarketbooks.org order arrived!! My to-read list is completely out of control but I’m ok with that:

Four books on a blanket, clockwise from top left “Hope in the Dark” by Rebecca Solnit, “Azadi” by Arundhati Roy, “The Black Antifascist Tradition” by JEANELLE K. HOPE & BILL V. MULLEN and “Border & Rule” by Harsha Walia

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is from Reddit, from this article on McMahon’s enabling and cover-ups of CSA: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Screenshot of text from article linked: From LeopardsAteMyFace community on Reddit
Tom Cole's brother Lee Cole told NBC News that Linda personally contacted his brother over the years. She also thanked him for staying silent about the abuse at WWE during her 2010 Senate run, according to the current lawsuit.
Lee Cole said his brother's final words to him before he died by suicide in 2021 still haunt him:
"You make sure you let them know what they did to me."
Lee Cole now hosts the podcast "Wrestling with the Devil, on which he amplifies the voices of former ring boys who allege abuse by Phillips.
A supporter of Trump's, he is disturbed by the choice of McMahon to lead the Education Department - and he has written to Sanders, of the Senate HELP Committee, to raise concerns about her nomination.
"I'm a big Trump supporter, and I'm very disappointed in his selection of Linda McMahon," Cole said. "It didn't matter whether you were a child, a man, a woman - nobody was safe from sexual abuse in that company."

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We got this book for my son last year - the main character is a girl who doesn’t wear hijab (although she is also too young to fast) but other non-hijabi adults as well. It’s also nice Pakistani-American representation!

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

One tuxedo and one orange tabby who are slowly becoming friends:

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Honestly reading and annotating this is just awful. It’s badly written, full of broad statements without evidence and decades-old right-wing tropes. The phrase “red tape” seems to be on every page.

Annotated section of Dept of Ed chapter in Project 2025 which outlines a broad view of its goals: vouchers, elimination of federal funding for IDEA and title 1 and a right-wing view of gender and race.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The opening of the DOE section in Project 2025 predictably references Milton Friedman. So we know school vouchers (and reduced funding to public schools) is a primary goal.

Screenshot of a paragraph of the DOE section in project 2025 which mentions Milton Friedman.

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