US Education Tracker
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Tracking the impact of right-wing policy on US education.
I’m a former public school teacher/current mom of a public school kid.
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I’m a former public school teacher/current mom of a public school kid.
📍NYC
https://www.departmentofedtracker.com/
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U.S. Education Tracker
Discover US education updates, policy shifts, and impacts under the Trump administration. Track K-12 and higher education changes with our independent and comprehensive insights.
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I appealed and got my spreadsheet (and google account) reinstated! The website is back and I'm currently updating!
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The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.
“The Committee’s unfounded accusations, dependence on clearly compromised sources, and selective presentation of ‘evidence’ represent an unprecedented abuse of congressional power—designed not to find the truth, but to silence leadership that refuses to yield to political pressure.”
— GMU-AAUP
— GMU-AAUP
Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee accused George Mason University's president of lying about DEI practices and likely violating civil rights laws. He has denied the claims.
www.insidehighered.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.
I am from Chicago. Friends are regularly telling us how abhorrent ICE/CBP tactics are and that it’s obvious their goal is to make everyone afraid.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I am from Chicago. Friends are regularly telling us how abhorrent ICE/CBP tactics are and that it’s obvious their goal is to make everyone afraid.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
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New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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More shit Mike Johnson doesn’t know.
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
More shit Mike Johnson doesn’t know.
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42 million people could go hungry next week because funding for SNAP food assistance will run out. The Department of Agriculture has contingency funds to help people get fed, but they refuse to release them.
Tell Congress and the USDA: release the funds! https://bit.ly/47eB2WG
Tell Congress and the USDA: release the funds! https://bit.ly/47eB2WG
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
42 million people could go hungry next week because funding for SNAP food assistance will run out. The Department of Agriculture has contingency funds to help people get fed, but they refuse to release them.
Tell Congress and the USDA: release the funds! https://bit.ly/47eB2WG
Tell Congress and the USDA: release the funds! https://bit.ly/47eB2WG
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This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
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Dear lord.
ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children.
This is so heartbreaking 💔
This is so heartbreaking 💔
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Dear lord.
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Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women."
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business
Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women."
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
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Dear @nytimes,
It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.
Sincerely,
An actual educator
It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.
Sincerely,
An actual educator
October 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Dear @nytimes,
It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.
Sincerely,
An actual educator
It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.
Sincerely,
An actual educator
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Superintendent Roger León said Newark’s approach to improving equity “is quite simple” and includes expert help.
Newark uses leadership teams, equity resources, expert help to address equity in schools
Superintendent Roger León said Newark’s approach to improving equity “is quite simple” and includes expert help.
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Superintendent Roger León said Newark’s approach to improving equity “is quite simple” and includes expert help.
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My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
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Mamdani: "The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as every other New Yorker. And yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive. No more."
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Mamdani: "The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as every other New Yorker. And yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive. No more."
I have a bad feeling the migraines are correlated with days I focus on this education tracking project 🙃
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I have a bad feeling the migraines are correlated with days I focus on this education tracking project 🙃
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Do Students Have Too Much Homework? What Educators Have to Say: Educators on social media weigh in on homework's place in K-12 education.
Do Students Have Too Much Homework? What Educators Have to Say
Educators on social media weigh in on homework's place in K-12 education.
www.edweek.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Do Students Have Too Much Homework? What Educators Have to Say: Educators on social media weigh in on homework's place in K-12 education.
Lmaoooooooo. I am so excited to vote for Zohran!
October 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Lmaoooooooo. I am so excited to vote for Zohran!
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Half of the chuds applying for ICE jobs these days are unable to pass the written part of the application process, even though it’s an open book test.
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Half of the chuds applying for ICE jobs these days are unable to pass the written part of the application process, even though it’s an open book test.
My goal for today is to remember that people arguing a well-established Nazi symbol is possibly somehow not are possibly deliberately trying to waste my time! And yours!
October 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My goal for today is to remember that people arguing a well-established Nazi symbol is possibly somehow not are possibly deliberately trying to waste my time! And yours!
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i expect to be UVA in the hot seat again next year when its black enrollment has not dropped to 0%
UVA "agrees to be bound by [DoJ's] 'Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,' ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities." bluevirginia.us/2025/10/brea...
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
i expect to be UVA in the hot seat again next year when its black enrollment has not dropped to 0%
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If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.
4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.