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Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
@tinacheuk.bsky.social
Science ed • teacher ed • bilingual ed • student parents
#StudentParentJoy
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🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a lower court order requiring full SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown, allowing Trump to continue with partial payments instead.
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
I see James Watson has died.

What did Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.

Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Congrats to Cal Poly on the #FamilyU Seal Designation for Dedication to Serving Student Parents.

ucm.calpoly.edu/news/cal-pol...

#StudentParents
#ParentingStudents
#HigherEd
Cal Poly Earns FamilyU Seal Designation for Dedication to Serving Student Parents
ucm.calpoly.edu
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Bio up for the Data and Tools Advisory Board with the California Cradle to Career Data System. 3 year term. 2025-2028.
Learn more about the state's efforts: c2c.ca.gov
Lots of opportunities for public engagement
#BigData
#CradleToCareer #Cradle2Career
#DataTransparency
#Data2Action
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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"Without this information, there is no way to know how schools are working to address academic and opportunity disparities — particularly for Black and Latino students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities and those from low-income backgrounds." www.the74million.org/article/givi...
Giving States Waivers From Accountability Is a Dangerous Step Backward for Kids
Forte: By loosening testing and reporting requirements, Education Department is denying parents, teachers and policymakers important information.
www.the74million.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
Absolutely! This is why universal free lunch exists: so that we would not means test children eating food *and* poor kids would not be stigmatized.

The idea is that everyone gets to eat. And no child is hungry at school.
yeah, I hate when people talk about means testing social services. rich people need food too! and maybe we gave it to them, you'd stop judging poor people for needing the help. if we provided people with the things they needed, there'd be less incentive to hoard wealth in the first place.
Honestly, I don't care what people seeking assistance at food banks do for a living, whether they work or not, what they drive, etc.

People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yes, that's me. Date: ~2000. My first teaching position.
#TheOnion
#StockPhoto
#InternetFame
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Powerful piece by my colleague K. Pale @hechingerreport.org
"That is the power of advocacy. It turns exclusion into inclusion. It rewrites the rules not just for one person, but for those who come after."
hechingerreport.org/opinion-student-parents-belong-on-college-campuses-so-do-their-children/?
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
Punchbowl reports “White House officials determined they do not have the authority” to use contingency reserves —billions of $ that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate— to fund Nov. SNAP benefits. But, that’s not what USDA’s now-deleted shutdown plan says:
October 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
All politics is local.

Vote out your state reps who peddle in this dangerous anti-science nonsense.
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.pbs.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
#SNAP helps 1 in 8 people in the U.S. buy groceries each month. The Administration has the legal authority and funding to keep benefits flowing through November as well as can and should act quickly to do so. www.cbpp.org/blog/the-tru...
The Trump Administration Can and Should Take Available Steps to Ensure SNAP Participants Get November Food Benefits
Nearly two-thirds of the funds needed for a full month of benefits are available in SNAP’s contingency fund and must be used when regular funding for SNAP runs short. The Administration must release t...
www.cbpp.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House.

This political moment is profoundly disgusting.
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I'm reminded by this quote, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." (& yes, we can build more tables.)
Data & Tools Advisory board w/ California's Cradle-to-Career Data System.
Learn more: c2c.ca.gov
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
“if the administration succeeds in its plans to cut the 2026 federal science budget to $154 billion from $198 billion — a 25 percent reduction — it would represent the smallest amount that the federal government has spent on science in this century”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Reposted by Tina Cheuk, PhD (卓佩佩)
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Commentary: Beyond Visibility: Using Student Parent Narratives to Enhance Data Collection.
#ParentingStudents #StudentParents #HigherEd
castudentparentalliance.org/resources/ad...
October 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"From campus struggles to statewide change"
@stanfordeducation.bsky.social
ed.stanford.edu/about/commun...
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Check out the public event and related resources:
Lessons on Collecting Data and Driving Change to Support Student Parent Success.
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social
#ParentingStudents #StudentParents #HigherEd
www.urban.org/events/lesso...
October 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Will be on campus for homecoming weekend!
ed.stanford.edu/news/three-g...?
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM