Chelsea Prax
@crprax.bsky.social
reader. mother. liberation agitator.
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One bad decision as a teen shouldn’t cost young Californians decades of opportunities. #CDFCA’s Milinda Kakani warns CapRadio News how a new state law treats youth like adults and expands surveillance instead of addressing root causes. Read more: https://bit.ly/4iisBxfx
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
One bad decision as a teen shouldn’t cost young Californians decades of opportunities. #CDFCA’s Milinda Kakani warns CapRadio News how a new state law treats youth like adults and expands surveillance instead of addressing root causes. Read more: https://bit.ly/4iisBxfx
Florida is moving toward eliminating vaccine requirements for school enrollment - an open door to infectious disease.
Educators worry first about their students.
www.aft.org/news/florida...
Educators worry first about their students.
www.aft.org/news/florida...
Florida may scrap vaccine mandates, but educators warn of possible risks
Florida could soon become the first state in the nation to eliminate all vaccine requirements, including those that protect children attending public schools. The proposal would undo decades of proven...
www.aft.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Florida is moving toward eliminating vaccine requirements for school enrollment - an open door to infectious disease.
Educators worry first about their students.
www.aft.org/news/florida...
Educators worry first about their students.
www.aft.org/news/florida...
New brief from UCLA explores how schools can balance technology use with focus, well-being, and equity. Read the report to explore thoughtful, community-centered cell phone + personal device policies for today’s classrooms at transformschools.ucla.edu/research/str...
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New brief from UCLA explores how schools can balance technology use with focus, well-being, and equity. Read the report to explore thoughtful, community-centered cell phone + personal device policies for today’s classrooms at transformschools.ucla.edu/research/str...
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The average SNAP recipient gets a $6 daily boost - about the equivalent of working 38min at minimum wage.
Even brief lapses in benefits distribution are related to increased risk of child welfare system engagement.
imprintnews.org/law-policy/h...
Even brief lapses in benefits distribution are related to increased risk of child welfare system engagement.
imprintnews.org/law-policy/h...
Hardship Ahead for Children and Families if Shutdown Continues | The Imprint
With the federal government shutdown barrelling toward a Nov. 1 “fiscal cliff,” state, local and tribal leaders are issuing urgent warnings that millions of families will soon be unable to meet basic ...
imprintnews.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The average SNAP recipient gets a $6 daily boost - about the equivalent of working 38min at minimum wage.
Even brief lapses in benefits distribution are related to increased risk of child welfare system engagement.
imprintnews.org/law-policy/h...
Even brief lapses in benefits distribution are related to increased risk of child welfare system engagement.
imprintnews.org/law-policy/h...
New evidence: "Across [countries of all income statuses], safe and enabling school environments (whole-school approaches) have the strongest evidence for reducing youth violence."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Interventions to prevent, reduce, and respond to violence against children and adolescents: a systematic review of systematic reviews to update the INSPIRE Framework
Each year, one billion children globally experience violence, which carries lifelong
detrimental effects. In 2016, WHO and partners launched the INSPIRE Framework: seven
strategies to end violence aga...
www.thelancet.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New evidence: "Across [countries of all income statuses], safe and enabling school environments (whole-school approaches) have the strongest evidence for reducing youth violence."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Blog on what makes a (Lowell, MA) community school: health van to boost vax; insurance enrollment support; civic debate instruction; on-site barber, laundry + food pantry; garden; MS college mentors; before-school programming; early warning data tracker
www.communityschools.org/news/buildin...
www.communityschools.org/news/buildin...
Building Healthy Futures: A Look inside Lowell’s Full-Service Community Schools : Community Schools
Community Schools Tagline
www.communityschools.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Blog on what makes a (Lowell, MA) community school: health van to boost vax; insurance enrollment support; civic debate instruction; on-site barber, laundry + food pantry; garden; MS college mentors; before-school programming; early warning data tracker
www.communityschools.org/news/buildin...
www.communityschools.org/news/buildin...
Children's Grief Awareness Day is this Thursday, November 20.
Check out free, self-paced resources from the Coalition to Support Grieving Students to know what to say (and not say) to bereaved kids - just after a loss + for the 'long haul' of mourning thereafter.
sharemylesson.com/partner/coal...
Check out free, self-paced resources from the Coalition to Support Grieving Students to know what to say (and not say) to bereaved kids - just after a loss + for the 'long haul' of mourning thereafter.
sharemylesson.com/partner/coal...
Coalition to Support Grieving Students
The Coalition to Support Grieving Students provides resources that will empower school communities across America in the support of grieving students.
sharemylesson.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Children's Grief Awareness Day is this Thursday, November 20.
Check out free, self-paced resources from the Coalition to Support Grieving Students to know what to say (and not say) to bereaved kids - just after a loss + for the 'long haul' of mourning thereafter.
sharemylesson.com/partner/coal...
Check out free, self-paced resources from the Coalition to Support Grieving Students to know what to say (and not say) to bereaved kids - just after a loss + for the 'long haul' of mourning thereafter.
sharemylesson.com/partner/coal...
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Listened to these @workingclasshistory.com podcasts today. Really great lessons on using whats at hand to defeat the oppressors.
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-...
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-...
E53-56: The Gwangju uprising
Podcast miniseries about the May 18 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980 against the US-backed military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan. We speak with Kim Yong Ho, David Dolinger and Jeon Yong H…
workingclasshistory.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Listened to these @workingclasshistory.com podcasts today. Really great lessons on using whats at hand to defeat the oppressors.
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-...
workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-...
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Across the U.S., various organizations work to ensure that people who are incarcerated have access to literature.
Sending Books to Prisons
PW checks in with two prison literacy groups, one of which originated with a publisher and the other with a bookstore.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Across the U.S., various organizations work to ensure that people who are incarcerated have access to literature.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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The people
Who were never going to vote for you
Are not convinced
By your abuse of the people who will
Who were never going to vote for you
Are not convinced
By your abuse of the people who will
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The people
Who were never going to vote for you
Are not convinced
By your abuse of the people who will
Who were never going to vote for you
Are not convinced
By your abuse of the people who will
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
absolutely incredible data on what's being reported to the Administration for Children's Services in NYC
familypolicynyc.org/data-brief/h...
familypolicynyc.org/data-brief/h...
Hotline Calls - NYC Family Policy Project
In response to advocacy and scholarship showing that child protective investigations are used far too often, rarely lead to support and leave damaging effects on families, New York City and state have...
familypolicynyc.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
absolutely incredible data on what's being reported to the Administration for Children's Services in NYC
familypolicynyc.org/data-brief/h...
familypolicynyc.org/data-brief/h...
Criminalizing immigrants disrupts kids' right to education
ICE raids are linked to a 22% increase in daily student absences ... and 1 in 6 students live in a targeted household (e.g., with at least one non-citizen adult)
learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/implica...
ICE raids are linked to a 22% increase in daily student absences ... and 1 in 6 students live in a targeted household (e.g., with at least one non-citizen adult)
learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/implica...
The Implications of H.R. 1 for School Funding and What States Can Do
Federal changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), including modifications to Medicaid and SNAP, will alter how states identify students from low-income backgrounds. This, along with chang...
learningpolicyinstitute.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Criminalizing immigrants disrupts kids' right to education
ICE raids are linked to a 22% increase in daily student absences ... and 1 in 6 students live in a targeted household (e.g., with at least one non-citizen adult)
learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/implica...
ICE raids are linked to a 22% increase in daily student absences ... and 1 in 6 students live in a targeted household (e.g., with at least one non-citizen adult)
learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/implica...
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Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy is available now!
Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy is available now!
Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
Hundreds of Kansas children were separated from their families for truancy and neglect - a bill aims to change that.
kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/c...
kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/c...
Child welfare advocates split with law enforcement on distinguishing neglect from poverty in Kansas • Kansas Reflector
Testimony over a proposal to redefine “neglect” for the child welfare system showed a divide between social workers and law enforcement.
kansasreflector.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hundreds of Kansas children were separated from their families for truancy and neglect - a bill aims to change that.
kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/c...
kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/c...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
School policies on personal device use are changing rapidly!
Round-ups are often super useful for seeing what's new ... a few I've read recently
1. Blog from @shankerinst.bsky.social asks whether tablets provided by school are different from cell phones www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/school-...
Round-ups are often super useful for seeing what's new ... a few I've read recently
1. Blog from @shankerinst.bsky.social asks whether tablets provided by school are different from cell phones www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/school-...
School Cell Phone Bans: Listen to Researchers and Stakeholders
School cell phone policy must reflect the research and views of stakeholders.
www.shankerinstitute.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
School policies on personal device use are changing rapidly!
Round-ups are often super useful for seeing what's new ... a few I've read recently
1. Blog from @shankerinst.bsky.social asks whether tablets provided by school are different from cell phones www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/school-...
Round-ups are often super useful for seeing what's new ... a few I've read recently
1. Blog from @shankerinst.bsky.social asks whether tablets provided by school are different from cell phones www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/school-...
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#tdih 1963 Freedom Day: massive (200,000+) student boycott & demonstration against segregated schools (decade AFTER Brown v. Board) & inadequate resources for African American students in Chicago.
CRM in the North.
Read ⬇️ & watch 63 Boycott doc. More #tdih🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/19...
CRM in the North.
Read ⬇️ & watch 63 Boycott doc. More #tdih🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/19...
Oct. 22, 1963: Chicago School Boycott
The Chicago Public School Boycott, also known as Freedom Day, was a mass boycott and demonstration against the segregationist policies.
www.zinnedproject.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#tdih 1963 Freedom Day: massive (200,000+) student boycott & demonstration against segregated schools (decade AFTER Brown v. Board) & inadequate resources for African American students in Chicago.
CRM in the North.
Read ⬇️ & watch 63 Boycott doc. More #tdih🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/19...
CRM in the North.
Read ⬇️ & watch 63 Boycott doc. More #tdih🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/19...
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You can change your mind upon the discovery of new information
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
You can change your mind upon the discovery of new information
Reposted by Chelsea Prax
There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths
buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...
buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths
buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...
buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...
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Remember our Dirt in a Cog zine gives you handy dandy ways to incorporate pushing back on alt right authoritarianism into your everyday life. Check it out on our website below.
invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...
invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...
October 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Remember our Dirt in a Cog zine gives you handy dandy ways to incorporate pushing back on alt right authoritarianism into your everyday life. Check it out on our website below.
invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...
invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...