Jen Andrews
@sweetbacon.bsky.social
Special Education Teacher, Advocate, Mama, Big fan of dogs.
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Today, we sent a powerful message to lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol. We are united and we WILL protect our students and our public schools!
February 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Today, we sent a powerful message to lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol. We are united and we WILL protect our students and our public schools!
Every time I hear it said out loud…
February 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Every time I hear it said out loud…
Hmmm, why get rid of the people who track school and student outcomes right before you dismantle the entire education department? Wouldn’t be so no one can track your outcomes would it? Because you usually want research when you’re doing good things.
DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance
The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou...
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February 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hmmm, why get rid of the people who track school and student outcomes right before you dismantle the entire education department? Wouldn’t be so no one can track your outcomes would it? Because you usually want research when you’re doing good things.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
February 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
Thank you @cecmembership.bsky.social for this webinar! We can’t let IDEA or federal protections for our students with disabilities be tampered with. learn.exceptionalchildren.org/products/cec...
CEC Learning Library: CEC Live Webinar: What's Happening in Washington | February 2025
learn.exceptionalchildren.org
February 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Thank you @cecmembership.bsky.social for this webinar! We can’t let IDEA or federal protections for our students with disabilities be tampered with. learn.exceptionalchildren.org/products/cec...
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@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
📣 UPDATE: OK, still working with some others to figure out the best way to present it all, but in the meantime here's the first batch of links to the most-recent archived versions of every page at the CDC prior to the Trump/Musk Purge:
acasignups.net/25/02/02/whi...
acasignups.net/25/02/02/whi...
In which I provide links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available pre-purge (Part 1 of 15)
As horrific as it is that the Trump/Musk Administration is purging data from federal websites, it's good to know that the Internet Archive has been archiving much of it. However, in addition to the Ar...
acasignups.net
February 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.
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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
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Thank you, Canada!
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Thank you, Canada!