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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Child care is not babysitting." 👏 Hear New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham (@govmlg.bsky.social) push back against arguments opposing universal child care:

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The Children's Equity Project @childrensequity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Head Start ratios are 1:4 for infants & toddlers, 1:8 for 3-year-olds, & 1:10 for 4-year-olds. Our report compares them with state licensing rules using 2025–27 state plans. No state met Head Start’s standards across every age group. Learn more: ow.ly/JPob50ZTl9t

Infant playing with a colorful ball on the floor, supervised by a smiling adult woman in a childcare setting.

Two toddlers playing with wooden blocks, illustrating the 1:4 adult-to-child ratio for children under 36 months in Head Start programs.

Teacher engaging three-year-olds in a classroom with colorful building blocks, illustrating a 1:8 adult-to-child ratio.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd like to say I'm shocked, but @kennedyandara.bsky.social and team's new report showcases what we know about this admin: They are simply "not even a little bit" concerned with Americans' financial situations. @bbkogan.bsky.social this one's for you:

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Surprised Pikachu Meme

ALT: Surprised Pikachu Meme

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[a five minute chunk of my day] - read news story that federal government now has its own AI chatbot - open government AI chatbot - type "what are the effects of climate change" - read that CO2 helps plants grow and there will be less economic damage that we thought! - close chatbot fin

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Developing socioemotional skills is central to high-quality preschool & is what Head Start has helped guarantee for 60+ years through national quality standards... so low-income children wouldn’t lag behind before the race even begins." www.the74million.org/zero2eight/c...

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Changing Head Start Rules Would Rob Kids of Skills They Need for School and Life

Posamentier & Adams: The result could be more chaotic kindergarten classes and diminished social readiness that will extend to HS and beyond.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Head Start is under attack… again. Threats of elimination. Funding freezes. Efforts to restrict access. Now, a proposed rule that would gut quality standards. We need champions! Make your voice heard by submitting a public comment by 10/6. DM with any questions. MORE: linktr.ee/headstartnprm

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Protecting Head Start's Future | Linktree

Resources to support strong responses to the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) addressing Head Start standards. Contact: Advocacy@startearly.org

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Over 119k Head Start children have disabilities, & many more are at risk for developing disabilities. The proposed rule, Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs, would make it much harder to identify & support these children. www.newamerica.org/insights/cur... More: linktr.ee/headstartnprm

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Current Head Start Program Performance Standards Protect Children with Disabilities

The proposed rule, Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs, would make it much harder to identify and support these children.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"513k+ babies & toddlers, ~1/29, experienced homelessness in '23–24... ~1/10 were confirmed to have reached an early childhood program." Early Head Start is a lifeline for many of these families. Among other actions, we must defend access to this critical program. e1.nmcdn.io/assets/schoo...

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Infant and Toddler Homelessness Across 50 States

More than half a million babies and toddlers experienced homelessness in 2023–24 — roughly 1 in 29. See national findings, 50 state profiles, and solutions.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"If this admin really wanted to support families, it would invest more – not less – dollars in child care, create a national paid family & medical leave program, expand access to a fully refundable Child Tax Credit, & restore health care & nutrition assistance." nwlc.org/press-releas...

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NWLC on Trump-Vance Pronatalist Proposal to Direct Child Care Funds to Stay-At-Home Parents - National Women's Law Center

Washington, DC – The New York Times reported that the Trump-Vance administration plans to overhaul the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) by redirecting federal child care dollars away from famili...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"...this plan would make child care even more expensive & harder to find... with disproportionate harm to single parents in the workforce... & would hurt stay-at-home moms by limiting their decisions re: family composition, caregivers, & economic opportunity." www.momsrising.org/newsroom/red...

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Redirecting Child Care Funds, as the Trump Administration is Proposing, Would Be Destructive, Discriminatory, and Devastating

“The Trump administration plan, reported in Saturday’s New York Times, to redirect funds designated for our badly under-resourced child care system...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Nowhere is the squeeze more apparent than in the decision to start a family. Most people now say raising kids is too expensive and, for the first time, financial pressure was cited as the top reason for having fewer children." economicsecurityproject.org/resource/aff...

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Affordability Dashboard

Childcare. Healthcare. Groceries. Gas. Every essential costs more since the pandemic.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Losing access to free meals could require families to spend on average nearly $1k/student/school year... & that cost burden comes as families are already grappling w high living costs & steep gas prices." @pbshoemaker.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...

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As millions of kids lose SNAP food benefits, free school meals are also at risk

Food stamps have a direct link to other critical resources, such as free breakfast and lunch at school. Now, experts say they're starting to see that link break.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"...this policy also makes it more likely that states will restrict access or drop out of the program when an economic downturn occurs & need increases, leaving Americans witthout adequate food assistance, sharply increasing poverty & hardship..." www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

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The SNAP state cost-shift policy leaves the program’s existence to chance - The Hamilton Project

Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach find that the SNAP cost shift to states will fluctuate unpredictably and considerably from year to year solely based on random chance.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

WI Gov. Evers urges HHS to withdraw new Head Start rule on the grounds that, among other things, it: ⚠️ caps admin funding ⚠️ cuts educational standards & safety oversight for kids ⚠️ drops mandatory health screenings ⚠️ weakens services for vulnerable families content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"We need to strengthen & invest in Head Start & other core services that support families... We need to finally commit to policies that support the endless potential that is there at the birth of every child." www.earlyopportunities.org/blog/a-wake-...

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A Wake-up Call for the Country — Early Opportunities

As a nation, we can do so much better for young children and families   By Joan Lombardi, PhD I walked into my first Head Start classroom in 1972 . It was from that program, those families, ...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"In the second half of last year, there were an estimated 400,000 children on waitlists for childcare assistance programs across the U.S...That figure has more than tripled over the past two years." www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...

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Why more than 400,000 kids are on waitlists for federal childcare assistance

The Child Care and Development Fund, the U.S. government's main source of funding to help low-income families pay for childcare, serves over 1.6 million children in a typical month.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The admin is working to chisel away at Head Start so they can call it ineffective in a year & eliminate it. But this is a proven program - the "gold standard" for early learning - that keeps vulnerable families afloat, & it deserves our fight to protect it: www.americanprogress.org/article/we-a...

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‘We Are the Resources’: Head Start Is a Crucial Early Learning and Community Program for Families Nationwide

Despite repeated attacks on the program, Head Start has a 60-year track record of providing high-quality services that prepare young children for school and set families up for success.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"The administration claims they are ‘cutting red tape’. They are not. This is a mandate to do more with less, and America’s children with pay the price for it through larger classrooms and fewer services." delauro.house.gov/media-center...

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DeLauro on Trump Administration’s Head Start Changes: “A mandate to do more with less.”

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and a longtime champion of Head Start, issued the following statement in response to reporting that the ...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Head Start is under threat... again. New rule changes undermine the evidence-based practices that make Head Start the gold standard for early learning. It's not too late to reach out to your Member of Congress & urge them to speak out against this wholesale attack. actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...

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Tell Congress to Stop RFK’s Attack on Head Start!

U.S. Department Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr. is attacking Head Start, proposing to eliminate most of the program's standards and rolling back regulatory rules. If enacte...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

soooo excited for my cousin, @kvanaren.bsky.social, for her new book coming soon! go order yours pronto

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Progress in care is happening in several states, but federal cuts are putting that progress at risk. A new report card from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @caringacross.org grades all 50 states on care affordability and access See how your state scored in the report. #CareMatters go.tcf.org/CareReport26

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Care Matters: A 2026 State Report Card on Care Affordability and Access

Download the Care Matters: A 2026 State Report Card on Care Affordability and Access PDF Care and caregiving are foundational to how society

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“The public deserves to know why the Trump administration is restricting access to critical child care and family assistance funds that hundreds of thousands of families rely on,” Linda Morris, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, said in a statement. thehill.com/regulation/c...

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Rights groups sue Trump administration over proposed childcare funding cuts

Civil rights groups sued the Trump administration on Monday, after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records rel…

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Shelby Gonzales @shelbytgonzales.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Last month, SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship, but now the Trump Admin. is finding another way to take aim at the U.S.-born children of immigrant parents with its cruel new “public charge” rule.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"In many ways, the administration’s strategy for Head Start mirrors the way it’s approached the Department of Education: unable to completely eliminate something they dislike, they instead seek to dismantle it piece-by-piece." www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

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The Quiet Dismantling of Head Start: How the Trump Administration Is Using Regulation to Reshape a Program It Can't Eliminate

In many ways, the administration’s strategy for Head Start mirrors the way it’s approached the Department of Education: unable to completely eliminate something they dislike, they instead seek to dism...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

“You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

CAP's latest analysis confirms what many have already suspected: Trump's deployments of the National Guard into American cities were never about stopping crime—it's all a dangerous power grab by the administration. ampr.gs/4wIPPmn

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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New research from @haileygibbs.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social finds nearly half of all young children in the country (ages 5 and under) live in a licensed child care desert. Sustained federal investment is needed to build program supply. www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...

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America’s Child Care Crisis Leaves Many Families Without Access to Licensed Care

The child care system faces severe affordability and supply crises, leaving more than 50 percent of young children without adequate access in 42 percent of U.S. congressional districts.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 08/07/2026

Early care & education services are spatially differentiated. Using cell-phone mobility data, we measure worker & consumer commutes in a novel way, at the provider level. Great working with @gabriellepepin.bsky.social, @jborowsky.bsky.social & Liz Davis. research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcont...

Close to Home? Five Key Facts about Child Care Customer
and Worker Commutes
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 26-432
Gabrielle Pepin
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Jonathan Borowsky
University of Minnesota
Elizabeth E. Davis
University of Minnesota
Aaron Sojourner
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
June 2026
ABSTRACT
Parents often cite location and convenience as important factors in choosing a child care provider. We use data on individual mobility from GPS in cell phones to study commutes to each licensed early childhood care and education (ECE) provider in 14 states separately for center customers, center workers, and customers of home-based child care providers. We document five key facts about ECE customer and
worker commutes. One, center customers and workers commute farther than home-based customers to ECE providers. Two, substantial shares of customers and workers commute 10+ miles to their ECE
provider. Three, commute distances to ECE providers vary substantially across geographic regions. Four, commute distances, especially for center workers, increase with provider neighborhood socioeconomic
status. Five, commute distances vary by the racial and ethnic composition of the provider location, even after controlling for measures of socioeconomic status. Results suggest variation in ECE market size by provider type, geographic location, and workforce characteristics, which has implications for policies intended to increase supply within the sector. Higher-income customers may lift child care prices and wages across a broader region than where they shop, impacting access in less privileged regions. Interventions targeting child care wages may have geographical spillovers outside of child care markets defined by consumer behavior.
Key Words: child care, commutes, early childhood care and education workforce, market size
This work was supported by a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

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Paige Shoemaker DeMio @pbshoemaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

33.9 million public school students were eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals in 24/25 but thanks to the OBBBA, many are at risk of losing their eligibility. For a family with two kids, this means taking on roughly $2k per year to cover costs. www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...

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Congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill Threatens Access to Free School Meals

Students across the country could lose access to free school meals, forcing the typical family with two children to spend $1,900 to $2,200 more per year for school meals.

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Kennedy Andara @kennedyandara.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Check out the latest from @americanprogress.bsky.social on today's #JobsDay data. Wages aren't keeping up with inflation, and job gains aren't delivering for workers as Americans still struggle with affordability in Trump's economy. Read the full write-up ↓ www.americanprogress.org/article/june...

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June Jobs Numbers Are Not the Boost for Workers That Was Expected

The June 2026 jobs report included strong headline numbers, but working families are still struggling to keep up amid higher inflation.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

'10% of kindergartners who start school at the bottom of their class in reading & math is proficient by 3rd grade... Students who read poorly at the end of 3rd grade struggle throughout schooling because they’re expected to use reading to learn every other subject.' www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/25/k...

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Most kindergartners in the bottom of their class don’t catch up by third grade, study finds

Kindergarten test scores can be an important warning sign, researchers said, and early gaps don't just clear up on their own. But the solutions aren’t obvious.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

'...from men onto women... from privileged women onto more vulnerable others... this cascade is fundamentally unsustainable, [concentrating] care in the hands of those who are already overburdened while obscuring and undervaluing their contributions.' rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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The Care Cascade: Interviews from Our Broken Care System

Why is childcare so hard to find, and who is paying the price? Jessica Calarco examines how America's care economy systematically shifts the burden of the broken care system onto women, immigrants, an...

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“[My son] often wakes up worried because he thinks that he missed school. Then he realizes he’s locked up here and there isn’t school.” If this kind of abject cruelty doesn't make you want to throw up, I don't know what to tell you. www.newamerica.org/insights/chi...

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Children Belong in School Learning, Not Left to Languish in ICE Detention

The federal government is depriving children of their right to an education by locking them up in family detention facilities.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

DC resident, can confirm: for people pushing that narrative this map is more or less the funniest conceivable result

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"When our kids thrive, communities thrive, and when communities thrive, we all thrive." It's time to invest in our children and build a child care system that supports our youngest learners. #UniversalChildCare

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As a small business owner, child care provider Kiera Fernandez relies on the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund program to ensure she can provide for her teachers and keep her doors open for local families and children.

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Hailey Gibbs, PhD @haileygibbs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"2022-2024: share of young children <6 who were uninsured increased by a full percentage point, from 4.3 to 5.3 percent (highest in 10yrs)... ~220,000 additional babies, toddlers & preschoolers were uninsured in 2024 – a 23% increase between 2022 & 2024." ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/06/01/u...

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Uninsured Rate for Young Children Rose More Sharply than for Older Children from 2022-2024

Key Findings The number of infants, toddlers and preschoolers who are uninsured is at the highest level in nearly a decade and is increasing more sharply than for older children. The number of uninsur...

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Affordable, accessible childcare is not a luxury item; it's an essential first step in our education system. Hear from @whipkclark.bsky.social:

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