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Moira Kaleida

@publiced412.bsky.social
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National Director: Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS); recovering politico; jigsaw puzzle connoisseur; #BLM, trans rights=human rights, public school enthusiast, views my own.

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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Target won't stand up for Minnesota or DEI. We won't stand for Target. This Back to School, AROS is standing with @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, shopping local and letting Target know that we see their cowardice. Send a letter to Target's CEO here: bit.ly/4gmdnIj
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Tell Target We’re Shopping Local for Back to School
Back-to-school season sends families and educators into stores across the country to buy notebooks, backpacks, pencils, classroom supplies, and everything students need for another school year. Tar...
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Wyoming Democratic Party @wyodems.org · 07/04/2025
Showed up this weekend for our neighbors, rights, and freedom. Still waiting on the Soros money. Send snacks. #HandsOff #Handsoff2025
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412Justice @412justice.org · 17/03/2025
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Game On for Kansas Schools @gameonkansas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Oklahoma taxpayers were sold a load of bull about parental choice tax credits" Janelle Stecklein/Oklahoma VoiceGuest columnist #ksleg #ksed #vouchers www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...
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Oklahoma taxpayers were sold a load of bull about parental choice tax credits | Opinion
Legislators would have you forget they want to use public money to continue to subsidize the costs of education for a small subset of rich children.
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AFT @aft.org · 03/03/2025
Learn more about how Trump's education cuts could impact your family and your state at aft.org/protectourkids/toolkit.
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Protect Our Kids Toolkit
The Protect Our Kids campaign is mobilizing educators, parents, students, and community allies to fight against devastating cuts to public education. The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the U...
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 02/03/2025
🤠 K12 Roundup - Horne’s flub, Trump’s DEI Snitch Line + 📣 Rally to #ProtectOurKids THIS Weds: bit.ly/Rally4AZKids 😡 #AZLeg updates Get it all in the #WeeklyEdReport @ bit.ly/March2EdReport
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/03/2025
remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
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NPE Action @npeaction.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Gutting and slashing the U.S. Department of Education hurts kids. Learn how you can protect our kids at: www.aft.org/ProtectO... #ProtectOurKids @firstfocus.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social @fairtest.bsky.social @future4learning.org
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ohhh my god! This is small town, Missouri.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.
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Coeur d’Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company’s business license
City prosecutors will dismiss a misdemeanor battery citation issued to the Post Falls woman who plainclothes private security guards dragged out of a legislative town hall Saturday and the city of Coe...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
For the first time, I'm hearing that DOGE cut Dept of Ed Teacher & School Leader Incentive Program grants, which fund performance-based pay to recruit, reward, & retain teachers & leaders in high-needs schools. Check out abstracts of grants cut ⬇️ 1
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Trump administration cancels federal teacher training, retention grants in NC
Tens of millions of dollars in federal grants for teacher training and retention have been canceled in North Carolina, including a $12 million program in Wake County.
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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I didn't think I'd finally get arrested yelling lines from pro-wrestling, but here we are. Proud to stand up for students with disabilities and other minoritized students against this awful administration. www.mediaite.com/politics/pro...
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Protester Interrupts Linda McMahon Hearing With a WWE Homage: ‘Can You Smell What Linda McMahon Is Cooking?!’
Linda McMahon's Senate hearing was disrupted multiple times by protesters, one of whom used their minor demonstration to homage a classic WWE line.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Pam Harbin @pamharbinpgh.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Pittsburgh Public Schools 👀 "Anti-democracy efforts by the Council of Great City Schools through Student Outcomes Focused Governance (SOFG) including sweeping PPS Policy changes the Board hopes to enact this month." Superintendent school closure & consolidation presentation in mid-February? When?
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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Resources for Right. Now.
More than school closings..
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If your state just handed $447M to vouchers for kids already in private school, spare me the "it’s too much money" excuse when it comes to educating undocumented immigrant students. Follow the law of the land—Plyler still stands.
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Chicago Teachers Union @ctulocal1.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
When our schools are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK! 🔥💪 Yesterday, CTU members from across the city walked into their schools to show that we will not back down to Trump’s hateful agenda. When it comes to protecting our students, our educators will advocate for what’s right.
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Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“When Republicans last tried to eliminate the Education Department in 2023, 60 House Republicans joined all the Democrats in killing the bill.” open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
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Trump Probably Can't Abolish Department Of Education, Shhhh, Nobody Tell The Idiot
Usual creeps in Congress want to help.
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Game On for Kansas Schools @gameonkansas.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Ohio is a state where families earning $60,000 a year are subsidizing the private school tuition of families earning $300,000 a year," Dan Heintz, educator and school board member www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-02-03/e... #ksleg #ksed #vouchers
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God @thegodshow.com · 05/02/2025
Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 29/01/2025
A marathon 11-hour meeting saw YIMBY advocates square off with supporters of Mayor Gainey's citywide IZ proposal:
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Inclusionary zoning sparks passionate debate and questions about math
A marathon 11-hour meeting saw YIMBYs supporting Pittsburgh City Councilor Bob Charland square off with supporters of Mayor Ed Gainey's citywide inclusionary zoning proposal.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Let’s also remember that vouchers improve test scores about as well as tying a boulder to your ankle improves your chances of becoming Michael Phelps.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
WATCH: “Instead of giving money to private schools that don’t take kids like me, please help public schools get better and fund them.” A 6th grader with cerebral palsy speaks out against the TEXAS voucher scam. (cc: @GovBillLee)
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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As National School Choice Week unfolds, my latest article delves into the progress and persistent inequities in Denver metro area schools. Discover how Colorado's diverse educational options impact students across the region. Read more here: coloradocommunitymedia.com/2025/01/29/c... #coloed
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National School Choice Week highlights progress and inequities in Denver metro area schools - Colorado Community Media
Colorado has long been a pioneer in school choice, offering families various educational options, including public, charter, private and magnet schools, as well as open enrollment across district boundaries since 1994.  According to the Reason Foundation, data from the Colorado Department of Education showed that more than 199,000 students, 28% of those enrolled in traditional […]
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"This model is being sold as some golden ticket and provable," Kaleida argued. "Where we have no research, no accountability, nothing to show that this is actually backed up by test results, by academics, by a peer-reviewed study." www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-01-27/e...
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Is AI curriculum the future of education in PA 'cyber charters?'
A new virtual charter school offering two hours of artificial intelligence-based learning wants to expand into Pennsylvania. The Unbound Academy proposal awaits approval from the Pennsylvania Departm...
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Gerrit Kischner @connect-edleader.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@edwriters.bsky.social Wondering if any national education writers are on the trail of destruction caused by adoption of Student Outcome Focused Governance (SOFG) by school boards across the country (leaving school closures and corruption in its wake).
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I fear the goal of SOFG isn't so much something so nefarious like charters, but to get rid of democratically elected school boards. Our current reformers find the public very, very inconvenient.
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Stephanie on Bluesky @exantestephanie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It is a cult. Charismatic leader, literally in the rules not to question (you pay extra for non unanimous sofg votes), bizarre chants and rituals. Not normal, not serious
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The unofficial motto of too many school districts: "We could do this a better way, but that would be hard."
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If you haven’t read Princeton economist Mica Sviatschi’s brilliant work on how deportation policies backfired by spreading criminal networks and gangs across Central America, fueling migration back to the U.S., check it out. Ungated link below.
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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Years ago, when I was on SB and Grable, Remake Learning, etc. were (still are) pushing 'personalized learning' - we warned that it was a pathway to get rid of teachers and de-professionalize learning. Well - here we are. #CharterReformNow #TeachersOfBsky buckscountybeacon.com/2025/01/texa...
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Texas Businesswoman Wants to Open AI-Driven, Teacherless Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania - Bucks County Beacon
Among Unbound Academic Institute’s wild claims about educational rigor and success is that students only need 2 hours of daily instruction in core subjects.
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CarolCorbettBurris @carolburris.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“Don’t let National School Choice Week fool you. Behind the banners extolling the virtues of vouchers, charter schools, homeschooling…a small group of wealthy heirs is using their vast sums to undermine support for public schools and the vital role they have played in our culture and economy.”
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Chris Rosselot @northsidecowboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I can already tell. I won’t get tired of fighting and pushing back against Trump. It will be the pushing back against Democrats (all levels) that will be exhausting.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Welcome to Speaker Sexton’s Tennessee — As @brotherjones_ called it today: “authoritarianism without guardrails” apnews.com/article/tenn...
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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Some folks need to remember that they supported the UAW strike in the fall of 2023.... how quickly memories fade. Here is a reminder: "One of the UAW’s public demands in this round of bargaining was for a 32 hour week at 40 hours’ pay." More here: jacobin.com/2023/11/auto... #MassStrike #MayFirst
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Unions Should Start Planning for a Mass Strike on May Day 2028
Calls for a general strike usually skip over the hard work of organizing one. But UAW leader Shawn Fain is urging unions to align their contract expiration dates for May 1, 2028 — setting up the possi...
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Danielle Gross, laughs at funny public comment @danipa.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
“You can’t have fairness in sports when a biological male wants to play sports and they are stronger than a girl” says Mrs. Davis, who obviously never beat her brothers’ asses like i did
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
ProPublica examines the right wing's voucher scam, which diverts taxpayer money to religious groups, undermines public school funding and serves as a windfall for affluent parents.
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The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers availab...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
US: “The optics of trying the voucher scam to hurricane relief aid - do you think there’s any validity to that criticism?” Lt. Gov. McNally: “None.” (Northeast TN school boards are seeing it differently)
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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@charlandbob.bsky.social wants to talk about housing like the folks at the Lewis Center: "The Lewis Group of Companies is one of the biggest housing developers in the US. They report having a landbank of over 50,000 detached homes and 16,250 apartments, and own and manage 11,000 rental units." 1/4
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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
My live-skeet of the November 13, 2024 Seattle Public Schools Board Meeting follows. We are talking all about Student Outcomes Focused Governance today. This is not a decision-making meeting, so there will be no public testimony. SIGN UP FOR THAT ON FRIDAY FRIENDS!
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 14/11/2024
As far as I can tell, SOFG is just No Child Left Behind 2.0.
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Uriah Ward @uriahward.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
SOFG is such a horrible, anti-democratic governance model for school boards. It's disappointing to see the Council of the Great City Schools advocating so strongly for it.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Journalists & voucher advocates often cite Private School Review to claim tuition is far below voucher amt, but the data are wildly inaccurate ➡️Marquette Catholic is Iowa's least expensive sch on PSR, $1560 ➡️24-25 K5 tuition=$6902 for non-Catholics ➡️That's a 145% increase from 21-22 actual $ (2815)
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Moira Kaleida @publiced412.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"A report by the Advancement Project... found that 1,072 students were assaulted between the 2013-14 and 2023-24 school years, and Black students comprise 84% of school policing assault victims." www.miamitimesonline.com/education/re...
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Report reveals Black students face 84% of school policing assaults
In October 2015, a Black 16-year-old in Spring Valley High School, South Carolina, was trapped in a headlock, flipped over, and dragged across her classroom by a school police officer
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NPE Action @npeaction.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Join us in April 2025 in Columbus, OH to hear 2022 National Teacher of the Year Kurt Russell & other exciting keynote speakers at our conference www.tiktok.com/@network4publiceduca… Register today networkforpubliceducation.org/2025-…
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TikTok · Network for Public Education
Check out Network for Public Education’s video.
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Best description, hands down, of what might happen to public education in a 2nd Trump term from @janresseger.bsky.social: janresseger.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/w...
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Who Is Linda McMahon and What Would Be Her Priorities as Education Secretary?
Last week President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will nominate Linda McMahon to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Education. Linda McMahon formerly served as an executive of World Wrestling En…
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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#CharterSchoolFail
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