Moira Kaleida
@publiced412.bsky.social
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
· Feb 15
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.
www.mediaite.com
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...
www.mediaite.com/politics/pro...
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Showed up this weekend for our neighbors, rights, and freedom. Still waiting on the Soros money. Send snacks.
#HandsOff #Handsoff2025
#HandsOff #Handsoff2025
April 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Showed up this weekend for our neighbors, rights, and freedom. Still waiting on the Soros money. Send snacks.
#HandsOff #Handsoff2025
#HandsOff #Handsoff2025
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"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...
Janelle Stecklein/Oklahoma VoiceGuest columnist
#ksleg #ksed #vouchers
www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...
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.
www.oklahoman.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"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...
Janelle Stecklein/Oklahoma VoiceGuest columnist
#ksleg #ksed #vouchers
www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...
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Learn more about how Trump's education cuts could impact your family and your state at aft.org/protectourkids/toolkit.
March 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Learn more about how Trump's education cuts could impact your family and your state at aft.org/protectourkids/toolkit.
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🤠 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
📣 Rally to #ProtectOurKids THIS Weds: bit.ly/Rally4AZKids
😡 #AZLeg updates
Get it all in the #WeeklyEdReport @ bit.ly/March2EdReport
March 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🤠 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
📣 Rally to #ProtectOurKids THIS Weds: bit.ly/Rally4AZKids
😡 #AZLeg updates
Get it all in the #WeeklyEdReport @ bit.ly/March2EdReport
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remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
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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
March 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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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Ohhh my god! This is small town, Missouri.
Missouri Congressman Mark Alford (R) got the exact warm reception he deserved at his coffee chat this morning. Not a moment of peace. #MoLeg
February 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ohhh my god! This is small town, Missouri.
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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.
Weird.
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...
cdapress.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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.
Weird.
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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
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Check out abstracts of grants cut
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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.
www.wral.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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
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Check out abstracts of grants cut
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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...
www.mediaite.com/politics/pro...
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.
www.mediaite.com
February 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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...
www.mediaite.com/politics/pro...
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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?
"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?
February 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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?
"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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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.
Lawmakers introduce bill to keep undocumented students out of public schools
https://www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025/02/05/republican-lawmakers-introduce-bill-keep-undocumented-students-out-of-school/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025/02/05/republican-lawmakers-introduce-bill-keep-undocumented-students-out-of-school/
Tenn. lawmakers introduce bill to keep non-citizens out of public schools
With a measure antithetical to a legal precedent established more than 40 years ago, leading state Republicans move to let school boards ban children from attending public schools based on citizenship status.
www.chalkbeat.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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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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.
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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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“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.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“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...
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
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"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
www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-02-03/e...
#ksleg #ksed #vouchers
February 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"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
www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-02-03/e...
#ksleg #ksed #vouchers
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Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker.
February 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker.
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A marathon 11-hour meeting saw YIMBY advocates square off with supporters of Mayor Gainey's citywide IZ proposal:
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.
www.pghcitypaper.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A marathon 11-hour meeting saw YIMBY advocates square off with supporters of Mayor Gainey's citywide IZ proposal:
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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.
The next time a GOP politician says that they need a voucher program because test scores are not improving, let’s remember that Alabama introduced a voucher program last year while their test scores are improving. It’s not about test scores. It’s never been about test scores.
How Louisiana boosted its reading scores by going 'back to the basics'
thenationaldesk.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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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)
A 6th grader with cerebral palsy speaks out against the TEXAS voucher scam. (cc: @GovBillLee)
January 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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)
A 6th grader with cerebral palsy speaks out against the TEXAS voucher scam. (cc: @GovBillLee)
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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
Discover how Colorado's diverse educational options impact students across the region. Read more here:
coloradocommunitymedia.com/2025/01/29/c...
#coloed
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 […]
coloradocommunitymedia.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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
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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