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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 8h

I have a lot of FEELINGS about the subscription model but I am glad someone said “let’s make a mobile graphic design app with snapping and layers.”

US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 9h

I am getting too into adobe express for my Instagram posts but as a 20+ year adobe product veteran it is satisfying. They de-annoyinged it while still allowing enough features to be creative.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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NPR @npr.org · 21h

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

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. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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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Florida Education Association @floridaea.bsky.social · 21h

Our schools are under attack by the very people who are supposed to support them.

When state leaders choose politics over progress, and power over people, educators are left underpaid, undervalued, and silenced—and it’s our kids who pay the price.

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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 22h

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some
by Marty Schladen
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal

Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 2d

I mean this. If you voted for this get the hell off my Bluesky feed. You voted against Every child and Every thing that I have spent my lifetime fighting for. If you voted for this we share No common ground and you are my enemy! . www.k12dive.com/news/special...

RIFs rip through federal Office of Special Education Programs

With OSEP reportedly decimated, one special education expert asks: How can IDEA "possibly function"?

www.k12dive.com

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Funding has been restored, although for only one year. The original grant was for five years.

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 1d

Every single kid—no matter their needs—deserves a fair shot at learning.

Gutting the Education Department’s special education office does the exact opposite.

Despicable and cruel.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 1d

The number of Ohio children without insurance has risen. Experts say it could grow
“These numbers are really a wake-up call for elected officials that it's time to roll up their sleeves and try to figure out what's gone wrong here,”
www.wvxu.org/2025-10-13/t...

The number of Ohio children without insurance has risen. Experts say it could grow

The unwinding of Medicaid and its looming budget cuts could mean less access to health care for Ohio kids.

www.wvxu.org

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Many people, most not even in congress or being paid to do so, spent the whole weekend reading any information on these cuts we could find.

The lies are so insulting.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 1d

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Dec 9 is confirmed as the last day of employment for OSERS staff.

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

www.npr.org

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 2d

I started an Instagram for this account! I am wary of Meta but also it is a very effective platform for sharing information, so it felt like the right thing. (I also used to run an ig for my art business 🤫 so the posting schedule/norms are a little more familiar):
www.instagram.com/education.tr...

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 2d

Some may not realize that Gallaudet and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) depend on federal funding administered by OSERS to operate.

No OSERS staff = nobody to distribute this funding.

Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 3d

I think so. That and big ticket funding for things like Gallaudet/NTID and vocational rehab, which all fall under here too

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 3d

This RIF has effectively ended federal funding for special education.

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

Reporting from @zachschermele.bsky.social at USA Today with more details ⬇️

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

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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US Education Tracker @educationtracker.bsky.social · 3d

100% - its a huge funding cut “disguised” as a RIF

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