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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3h

Huh?

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 4h

"They want transgender for everybody"

Yeah, I don't know what to tell you? Nonchalant acceptance of transgender & gender non-conforming people of all kinds *should* be an American ideal of the highest order: You be you, live your life. We should all have the opportunity to be so free. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 7h

I'm so sorry, Thomas.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 17h

Truly they are banking on never losing power and being held to account.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 10h

The administration's end game is as obvious as it is simple:

1) Maintain and consolidate executive power.
2) Eliminate or break any resistance to #1.
3) Do it flagrantly to overwhelm the system's ability to form a coherent response.

It's the "kill any witnesses" approach to political crime.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 14h

There is nothing in your child's IEP that any private school must respect. This all but ensures your kid will not get the services they are entitled to by special education law.

Everything that it is possible to do to intentionally sabotage public education from the inside is being done.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 15h

This is absolutely deranged:

"The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees."

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Another devastating blow for the disability community as this administration cuts almost every employee responsible for administering funding & oversight for IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

Education should be a basic human right..and disabled kids are just as deserving.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 17h

Truly they are banking on never losing power and being held to account.

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
10:21 AM • 10/11/25 • 2.1K Views

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 1d

"What has your story as a writer been as a student?"

It's that time again: on Monday, students begin their reflection journey around their writing on this document that will be centered all the way to the finish line.

(Reflection is transformative!)

student reflection template (via Google Doc)

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI. The attack on US public schools -- on US schools -- has reached new levels.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Elena Ferro @eferro.bsky.social · 1d

Com es veu en aquest fil, el problema de fons del sistema educatiu i de l’escolarització és mundialment compartit, així que no us sentiu culpables. Això sí, el primer que trobi la solució que avisi la resta! 🙏
#eduCat

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

Somewhere in the recent past, a coup overthrew the spirit of education with the stuff of schooling, and we've seen the system remade entirely in that image.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3d

Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just the price of the bean! I went to reorder V60 filters yesterday, and the same $10 pack I ordered 5 months ago is now $17.

The Connecticut Mirror @ctmirror.org · 2d

In 2020, the price of a pound of roasted ground coffee in U.S. cities averaged $4.43. In August 2025, prices hit $8.87 per pound.

The price of a cup of coffee in CT is up 7.7%. It could be worse.

In 2020, the price of a pound of roasted ground coffee in U.S. cities averaged $4.43. In August 2025, prices hit $8.87 per pound.

ctmirror.org

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Why are they driving an unmarked minivan?

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds great! Can you DM me?

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a column with @katywithwine.bsky.social about censorship policies being a moral trap. Adhere to the policy, harm a kid. Give kids diverse books, lose your job, be threatened. Moral injury of teachers is so real. (It’s behind a paywall in English Journal, but I’ll send it to anyone!)

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

‘It feels like I am being forced to harm a child’: research shows how teachers are suffering moral injury

"At some point, you stop fighting...It’s like the system is designed to wear you down until you just comply."

theconversation.com/it-feels-lik... #EduSky

‘It feels like I am being forced to harm a child’: research shows how teachers are suffering moral injury

In a study of 57 Australian teachers, many shared emotionally-charged accounts of being put in impossible situations at work.

theconversation.com

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