Ann
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Mom, Teacher, North Carolinian, 2024 NC Virtual Public School Teacher of the Year
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From WFAE: A new survey from Elon University found dissatisfaction with North Carolina’s public schools. But survey respondents place a bulk of the blame on factors outside the classroom.
www.wunc.org/2025-12-18/n...
www.wunc.org/2025-12-18/n...
New survey shows dissatisfaction with NC schools — but the public doesn't blame teachers
A new survey from Elon University found dissatisfaction with North Carolina’s public schools. But survey respondents place a bulk of the blame on factors outside the classroom.
www.wunc.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
From WFAE: A new survey from Elon University found dissatisfaction with North Carolina’s public schools. But survey respondents place a bulk of the blame on factors outside the classroom.
www.wunc.org/2025-12-18/n...
www.wunc.org/2025-12-18/n...
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“Learn About America” Is A New & Useful (& Free) Social Studies Site larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/12/18/l...
“Learn About America” Is A New & Useful (& Free) Social Studies Site
Many teachers are familiar with the Mr. Nussbaum site, which has offered lots of online learning activities for years. Now, its creator, Greg Nussbaum, has unveiled an even more impressive s…
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December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“Learn About America” Is A New & Useful (& Free) Social Studies Site larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/12/18/l...
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Jack Smith's closed-door statement to House Judiciary Cmte (more)
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election & to prevent the lawful transfer of power"
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election & to prevent the lawful transfer of power"
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Jack Smith's closed-door statement to House Judiciary Cmte (more)
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election & to prevent the lawful transfer of power"
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election & to prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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If you’ve never thought about whether you’d use your body in an attempt to protect children who aren’t yours,
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you’ve never thought about whether you’d use your body in an attempt to protect children who aren’t yours,
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
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There can’t be a more horrific insight into the sickness of the US’s gun crime epidemic than the fact two survivors of Brown University had already survived school shootings. One was shot in the abdomen in 2016, while her best friend died. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There can’t be a more horrific insight into the sickness of the US’s gun crime epidemic than the fact two survivors of Brown University had already survived school shootings. One was shot in the abdomen in 2016, while her best friend died. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Someone invite me to give a keynote and/or talk to your preservice teachers about how I cultivate moments of joy in my classroom in an effort to spite the fascists who want to silence teachers like me and students like mine.
December 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Someone invite me to give a keynote and/or talk to your preservice teachers about how I cultivate moments of joy in my classroom in an effort to spite the fascists who want to silence teachers like me and students like mine.
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so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
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The idea the president has a popular mandate and accountability superior to Congress would have been baffling, infuriating, and heretical to the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution, and this is obvious to anybody even glancingly familiar with what any of them had to say about it.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The idea the president has a popular mandate and accountability superior to Congress would have been baffling, infuriating, and heretical to the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution, and this is obvious to anybody even glancingly familiar with what any of them had to say about it.
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Not Good Statistic Of The Day: Most Teachers Take Second Jobs larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/12/06/n...
Not Good Statistic Of The Day: Most Teachers Take Second Jobs
Read more about it at Ed Source’s article, Study finds most teachers work a second job outside of the classroom. Not great news for the profession.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Not Good Statistic Of The Day: Most Teachers Take Second Jobs larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/12/06/n...
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If there are teachers in Minneapolis, New Orleans, North Carolina, or Los Angeles who would like to write about ICE's impact on your teaching, your students, and their families for my Ed Week column, please let me know. I've already run a short series with contributions from Chicago teachers.
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If there are teachers in Minneapolis, New Orleans, North Carolina, or Los Angeles who would like to write about ICE's impact on your teaching, your students, and their families for my Ed Week column, please let me know. I've already run a short series with contributions from Chicago teachers.
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being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
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Evidence shows DHS didn’t arrest only ‘worst of the worst’ in NC detention surge. CBS News reported that fewer than a third of the people picked up by the Border Patrol during Charlotte's Web had criminal histories. (Via @nathanpcollins.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #ncpol
Evidence shows DHS didn’t arrest only ‘worst of the worst’ in NC detention surge
DHS alleged it focused on dangerous criminals during operations in NC but has not released proof. Very few names have been made public among hundreds of people seized this month.
www.newsobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Evidence shows DHS didn’t arrest only ‘worst of the worst’ in NC detention surge. CBS News reported that fewer than a third of the people picked up by the Border Patrol during Charlotte's Web had criminal histories. (Via @nathanpcollins.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #ncpol
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Study Finds That Teachers’ Pay Is Going Backwards larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/s...
Study Finds That Teachers’ Pay Is Going Backwards
Ed Source reports at Report: Teacher pay penalty growing about yet another development that is not likely to make the teaching profession look more attractive. You might also be interested i…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Study Finds That Teachers’ Pay Is Going Backwards larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/s...
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Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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My pet reform to the White House press pool would be half the seats rotate to random citizens, a lottery or whatever. Questions alternate between randos and pros. Even if you get some real weirdos, that's America. But I don't doubt which group would produce more useful and newsworthy exchanges.
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 AM
My pet reform to the White House press pool would be half the seats rotate to random citizens, a lottery or whatever. Questions alternate between randos and pros. Even if you get some real weirdos, that's America. But I don't doubt which group would produce more useful and newsworthy exchanges.
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Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept. wapo.st/4i6ZRr5 gift link
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept. wapo.st/4i6ZRr5 gift link
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools now says 30,399 students were absent Monday amid the Border Patrol operations. That's 21% of total enrollment. If equivalent happens in Wake County, 34,000 students would be out. Wake will have totals later today. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #nced #ncpol #wcpss
Border Patrol is coming to Raleigh. Will it cause Wake students to stay home?
Attendance dropped Monday in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools amid increased Border Patrol operations in Charlotte.
www.newsobserver.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools now says 30,399 students were absent Monday amid the Border Patrol operations. That's 21% of total enrollment. If equivalent happens in Wake County, 34,000 students would be out. Wake will have totals later today. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #nced #ncpol #wcpss
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I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Immigration Agents Coming to Raleigh Tuesday, Sources Say www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
Immigration Agents Coming to Raleigh Tuesday, Sources Say
Democratic legislative sources briefed by Gov. Josh Stein’s office told The Assembly and INDY that agents are coming to Raleigh.
www.theassemblync.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Immigration Agents Coming to Raleigh Tuesday, Sources Say www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
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More data centers are being built nationwide to meet the demand for digital services, including power-hungry artificial intelligence systems.
In my latest for @stateline.org, I spoke with local leaders and advocates who want more say on where and how data centers are built in their communities.
In my latest for @stateline.org, I spoke with local leaders and advocates who want more say on where and how data centers are built in their communities.
From Madyson Fitzgerald: While some state lawmakers are pushing legislation that would accelerate data center development, local communities across the country are taking steps to ensure they have a say.
https://stateline.org/2025/11/17/data-center-growth-drives-locals-to-fight-for-more-say/
https://stateline.org/2025/11/17/data-center-growth-drives-locals-to-fight-for-more-say/
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say • Stateline
Even as some state lawmakers are rushing to pass legislation that would accelerate the development of data center infrastructure, communities across the country are taking steps to ensure they have a say in where and how data centers are built.
stateline.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
More data centers are being built nationwide to meet the demand for digital services, including power-hungry artificial intelligence systems.
In my latest for @stateline.org, I spoke with local leaders and advocates who want more say on where and how data centers are built in their communities.
In my latest for @stateline.org, I spoke with local leaders and advocates who want more say on where and how data centers are built in their communities.
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This Story From Pro Football Could Be A Good Prompt For A Student Identity Activity larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/15/t...
This Story From Pro Football Could Be A Good Prompt For A Student Identity Activity
I worked with Pete Carroll for years. Let me tell you how he helped me find my true identity is a nice NY Times story about the NFL coach. I could see having students read the article and an…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This Story From Pro Football Could Be A Good Prompt For A Student Identity Activity larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/15/t...