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Maureen Kelleher

@maureenkelleher.bsky.social
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Freelance education writer. Previously Editorial Director, Future Ed at Georgetown. Selected priors: EdPost, The Chicago Reporter. Former high school teacher. Mom.

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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 20h
This appears to be the 21st-century equivalent of Stalin's "How many divisions has the pope?" (Note: the pope has definitely outlasted Stalin.)
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The # of kids covered by Medicaid/CHIP since Jan 2025 continues to decline As of August 2026, the ⬇️ was 2.575 million 2026 is a more rapid ⬇️ than the already large ⬇️ in 2025 This is very worrying bcuz drops in child Medicaid enrollment usually means kid uninsured rate is ⬆️
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's time to get serious about the Chicago school board election. Board Rule has the guide for you. Chicago LSC members and parents, you can get the guide when you subscribe for just $10/yr. board-rule.ghost.io/get-the-boar...
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Get the Board Rule Voter Guide
Board Rule asked the candidates for Chicago's school board three questions about how they would do the basics of their job.
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Like many of you, I've been waiting to see these rules governing the new federal tax credit for schooling (voucher) for a while. They are out (gift article)! Treasury releases rules for nation’s first federal school voucher program wapo.st/3TxbaRM
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Treasury releases rules for nation’s first federal school voucher program
With the arrival of the long-awaited rules, Democratic governors are under more pressure to say whether they will opt in.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As expected, the Supreme Court, among the new cases it took today, will be considering the Trump administration’s mandatory immigration detention policy (Rhoney v. Barbosa). This instantly becomes one of the most important cases of the term.
(ORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026
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ORDER IN PENDING CASE
BEAIRD, KENDRICK J. V. UNITED STATES
The motion of the Solicitor General for divided
argument is granted.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
MISSIONARIES OF ST. JOHN, INC. V. FREDERIC, JOEL, ET UX.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to
Question 1 presented by the petition.
MARSCHNER, ROXANE M. V. MARSCHNER, RICHARD A.
RHONEY, ACTING DIR. V. BARBOSA DA CUNHA, RICARDO A.
The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Case in point: "Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." (Manne in the Cut)
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Candidates for Chicago school board president get real about taming bureaucracy (or not) in their responses to disability justice org Access Living's questionnaire on ADA and special education. board-rule.ghost.io/chicago-scho...
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Chicago School Board Prez Candidates on Special Education
Plus, school funding is based on property taxes, not enrollment. So let's stop telling scary stories about declining birth rates.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another great reason to pick the bear.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming tomorrow night! Tune in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Mj...
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Chicago Decides 2026: School Board Candidate Forums | Trailer
YouTube video by CAN TV YouTube
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Chicago school board continues to shirk its legal responsibility to stand up a Black Student Achievement Committee. If you're mad about this (or anything else regarding the board or Chicago Public Schools), they also just added a special meeting on Tuesday. board-rule.ghost.io/new-push-to-...
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New Push to Extend Chicago's Pause on Closing Schools
The push is on to extend the Chicago school board's moratorium on closing schools. Plus, will advocates turn to the Illinois AG to get the Black Student Achievement Committee moving?
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two of these three South Side races for Chicago's school board could decide whether the Chicago Teachers Union maintains its current majority of allies: board-rule.ghost.io/the-south-si...
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The South Side's Hottest Chicago School Board Races
Only three South Side races appear to be truly competitive.
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's extremely important to understand that the situation got worse thanks to the Trump administration cutting ACA subsidies. We do not have to live like this, and we did not just a few short years ago.
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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
About 15 years ago, I had a conversation with someone working with a group of Silicon Valley leaders. They wanted me to help develop a program to encourage HS seniors to forego college and go work at tech firms. (I said no.) Tell me this isn't the same tactic in new clothing.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
wait what they are using is evidence of fraud is the fact that they have been paying for a service which they do not use?
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Come for the big picture on arts education in CPS; stay for the reactions to last night's school board prez candidates' debate. Learn more in today's Board Rule: board-rule.ghost.io/chicago-publ...
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Chicago Public Schools Marks 15 Years of Arts Ed Growth
Today's lead story is presented in partnership with Ingenuity, Chicago's nonprofit arts education hub.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yikes!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for four days. His attorneys have shared this site with me with instructions on how you can help him be found. Strongly encourage everyone to do this. findahmedsoliman.org
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Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool
Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 15/09/2026
“Reporters were barred from recording video” whaaaaaat
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported someone using the Alien Terrorist Removal Court — the first time that’s ever happened. Read on at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-first-...
The Trump administration chose the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to announce the first deportation carried out through use of a secretive pre-9/11 court that had never been used until this summer.
It did so in the most apt way, announcing that the case had concluded weeks earlier, and the public was only being informed about it on Friday — because that's when the administration wanted to tell the public.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Are these committees too little too late? Or a chance to get a jump on committee work for the next board? Learn more in today's Board Rule: board-rule.ghost.io/chicago-scho...
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Chicago School Board Forms Standing Committees, At Last
Too little, too late, or better late than never? The hybrid board has two rounds of committee meetings to prove they were worth establishing..
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New: Why "high-dosage tutoring" didn't (and probably couldn't) live up to the hype — and why it still might be a policy worth pursuing. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/09/10/h...
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High-dosage tutoring was supposed to transform learning. What happened?
The latest research offers some sobering results. But it would be foolish to write off tutoring too quickly.
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Surprise meeting this morning. But when they told us we had to start using this AI thing that rewrites our stories for different audiences + uses our bylines, I told management I would never use it and I would die on that hill. And then I wrote a song about it. So I’m not surprised they came for me.
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Matt Dempsey @mizzousundevil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Caitlin is a top tier reporter. Any newsroom would be lucky to have her.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
John Leguizamo posted a paid partnership with Polymarket on Instagram and the comments were so bad that they deleted and reposted with comments off Wrong response 🥴
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/09/2026
This ICE removal flight has landed in Laos. Passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 28 hours.
A closeup of an FR24 map showing N771kw landing in Vientiane
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Whitney Young freshman Zion Giles didn't know which high school he would attend until the Friday before school start. He is still waiting for key services. How many other Chicago Public Schools students are also experiencing delays in special education services? board-rule.ghost.io/how-many-stu...
A young Black man with limb differences plays marimba.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hint: it's not rocket science. But getting one school to focus and stay focused is a lot harder than it seems.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How a Tennessee Charter School Doubled its Reading Proficiency Rate in 4 Years www.the74million.org/article/how-...
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How a Tennessee Charter School Doubled its Reading Proficiency Rate in 4 Years
Friedman: Moving third grade reading mastery from 40% to 81% involved coaching on the Science of Reading, building knowledge and embracing writing.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
actually excited to get back to the 19th century after all of this today, did you know when victoria woodhull ran for president in 1872 (a completely wild!!! election) she ran on instituting the 8 hour work day and abolishing capital punishment
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hey @nytimes.com, you published a good story today about the Trump admin's new Treasury rule permitting revocation of tax-exempt status for schools supporting a diverse student body but you remarkably were unable to include a link to the primary source document, so I am not sharing the story.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, the honorific “Ms.” was virtually unheard of. Unmarried women were referred to as “Miss [father’s last name]” and married women as “Mrs. [husband’s last name].” “Ms.” was an assertion of individual identity. Women who used it were widely mocked.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chicago's school board races will heat up big time after Labor Day. Board Rule previews the North Side races likely to be most competitive: board-rule.ghost.io/hottest-chic...
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Hottest Chicago School Board Races: North Side Edition
At least five Chicago school board races on the city's North Side are shaping up to be hotly contested.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026
Actually, "I will make your healthcare more expensive" is not a popular position for a politician to hold.
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Mike Rogers Wants $50 Copays for Routine Screenings
The Michigan Republican will happily debate Abdul El-Sayed’s health care ideas. His own? Not so much.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Research has little to say about whether school board members need to spend time in schools. But Chicago's sitting board members stepped up their visits big time in the first half of 2026. In today's Board Rule, they tell us what they've learned: board-rule.ghost.io/getting-scho...
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Getting Schooled: Chicago Board Showed Up Big in 2026
Chicago Board of Education members are visiting many schools. That's a big change from past practice.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thanks, @conorpwilliams.bsky.social for this rememberance of Dolly Parton and what I think is her greatest legacy: the Imagination Library.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.
A screenshot of a White House tweet styled after The Magic School Bus cartoon but this one says “The Magic Deportation Bus” and shows shackled brown men in the back. The White House account says “Please let this be a normal field trip…” One put gray text over the whole thing that says “FASCIST PROPAGANDA.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026
Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program.  Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.
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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Why did my Chrome browser stop letting me view pdfs in the last week or two? Suddenly my browser is blocking web sites and pdfs for no apparent reason.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Northwest Side neighbors talking Chicago school board!
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In today's Board Rule: Chicago Public Schools halts rollout of Google Gemini in high schools. Plus, a profile of Board Member Emma Lozano and new candidate endorsements from Common Ground Collective. Learn more in this week's Board Rule: board-rule.ghost.io/tech-week-cp...
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Tech Week: CPS Puts the Brakes on Gemini in High Schools
While Google is making its Gemini AI assistant available in Google Classroom to schools nationwide, CPS will hold off on its high school rollout.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100% #BookSky
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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
a small break in the action because a transit planning friend sent me this to thank me for a lot of work i have been doing on student transportation the fares will be 75 cents all day, all year in both systems a HUGE improvement!
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K-12 students now able to ride CTA system, Pace buses for 75 cents
Students in elementary school and high school who use Pace buses and the Chicago Transit Authority system to get to school are now able to ride either system for 75 cents.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If the criticism is "why don't journalists write about X?" the answers usually are: -a word count limit of 600 or less -a publishing quota deterring longer stories -an editor shot down the pitch or cut that detail or angle -a beat reporter was laid off -freelance rates of $250 to $350
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/08/2026
Some professional news: I’m starting at The American @prospect.org on Monday, where I’ll continue my reporting on ICE flights and third-country removals.
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