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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 13h

Note to #FreetheFuture organizers: Please ditch the phone number needed to submit the form. Email is sufficient for most petitions, campaigns!

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 13h

This "non-permission" slip is solid. Demand about #tech profiteering off student data shows our agitation in @aft.org @neatoday.bsky.social is being heard! Still, we need to push on testing, #AI, and AFT's sinister deal with tech moguls to "train" teachers: www.freethefuture.net/non-permissi...

Non-Permission Slip — Free The Future

www.freethefuture.net

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 16h

He's rewriting history here: He didn't try to get the votes, pushed his "compromise" so Dems could keep getting big bucks from big pharma.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 23h

Should standardized tests be the only means of measuring student learning that's considered "rigorous"? Tests over which parents, students, teachers have no voice or control? Do the feds have the right to dictate this? If you think not, comment now! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Request for Information; Feedback on Redesigning the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 established the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) as the research, evaluation, and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education. IES is responsible ...

www.federalregister.gov

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 1d

Be prepared! Attacks on teachers, students, in Florida and DC show" teachers and their unions in more progressive states need to be preparing for a much more aggressive assault on public education. It’s coming and we need to be on the offensive." futureschools.substack.com/p/be-prepared

Be Prepared!

A call to action for educators in progressive states

futureschools.substack.com

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see unions of education workers organizing to fill the streets, protest loyalty oaths. Please publicize any similar actions by higher ed unions.

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 2d

AAUP will be marching g with TSEU! No Kings! No Loyalty Oaths! No Compact!

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 3d

Unpaid ad. Yes, we have much to learn from the 2018 walkouts! These articles to start. No pay wall! ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cr... @crystaldhowell.bsky.social @erindyke.bsky.social @laurenstark.bsky.social

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 3d

The watch does indeed have the "integrity" of Trump. No refund should be given!

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 3d

Missing in this and most analyses is how standardized testing (combined with the Common Core standards that no parents - or students - approved) drives what is taught, with software and platforms, giving tech companies huge profits.

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 4d

This makes @aft.org deal with the tech bros to boost their presence in classrooms even more sinister for a multitude of reasons. Let's name them!

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 4d

What this article shows but doesn't explain is the new convergence of the Right in ed policy, powered by #tech $$. Testing (with data collection, surveillance of teachers, students) continues, stoked by #AI: hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Education Department takes a preliminary step toward revamping its research and statistics arm

The public has until Oct. 15 to weigh in

hechingerreport.org

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 4d

Also, education workers and their unions are the most stable, potentially powerful source of resistance to privatization. We're dangerous! They know it but we don't.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 4d

Accurate, important reporting. What it doesn't say is equally so: Trump and billionaires aim to destroy public education by making it entirely private, looting our tax dollars. Big money opposing Trump wants a "public" system privatized with private/public partnerships, #tech profits and control.

Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

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

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 4d

What the article says is accurate and important. What it doesn't say is equally so: Trump and billionaires aim to destroy public education by making it entirely private, looting our tax dollars. Big money opposing Trump wants a "public" system privatized with private/public "partnerships."

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 6d

She echoes the far Right!

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 6d

"Implore" means "beg." Don't we need something more, well, pro-active? Courageous?

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 6d

Yes the demos are important, the first time many have protested. Also true that they are seen by many in the Democratic party as the solution, the only performance we should have - not a dress rehearsal.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7d

Regardless of whether this is organized, I'm boycotting #CBS and any of their advertisers I can, because they've named #BariWeiss, an apologist for genocide, authoritarianism and MAGA, to control their news. They'll get not a cent from me.

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7d

What's the plan to undercut Bari Weiss in her new job?

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7d

Lots of research supports the conclusion that in the US parents want their kids to feel safe, cared for, and instructed in what they'll need to know to thrive as adults. The anti-DEI hatred being whipped up appeals to a very limited audience unless the fears are stoked without opposition.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7d

Precisely. Inventing this threat of violence from the left to draw attention from their illegal use of government and military to suppress democracy. So I'm not giving this gaslighting any more publicity by reposting.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 7d

I call on Governor Pritzker to withdraw the State Police goon squads brutalizing protesters on ICE’s behalf in Broadview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7d

It's called sadism, a requirement for their "job," which gives them great pleasure.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 7d

If you ever wondered what Republican “governance” looks like, this is it.

A government shutdown.
Federal workers who don’t get paid.
A President who golfs during a shutdown.
National guards and ICE deployed to attack and arrest Americans.
Millions of Americans losing their healthcare.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 8d

In my ongoing series, "You can buy *that* with Arizona ESA funds?"

Small animal ultrasound, $779.99

Taxpayers are subsidizing pet pregnancy care while public schools scrape for basics.

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