Kyla Bailenson

CPS Principal 💚💛💚💛 and hopeful advocate.

[prolapsed catholic @chlumbucket]

Need high speed rail between wicker park and lakeview

[Bateman Elementary School @BatemanES]

And then there was just one week left with them. Next Friday, they will cross the stage as Bateman Graduates!🎓

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[Doc B's Musings @Chitownteach]

Final session of @CpsLeaders Leading the Transition today… We explored the power of play with VOCEL, partnered with @cps__face to deepen family engagement, and closed with mentors + principals setting goals for what’s next. #GoLearning!

[The Chicago Public Education Fund @TheFundChicago]

Six school leaders are one step closer to turning ideas into real change for students!

Help us congratulate our 2026 Design Challenge finalists. Join us on May 7 to see their work come to life!

https://t.co/o6QCPuyMJs

[Kyla Bailenson @KBailens]

@Chitownteach @CpsLeaders @cps__face Thank you for all you have done for us!

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Amazing: LA schools will eliminate personal devices in K and 1st grade, and limit use in grades 2-5, and give parents more options. I think this will catch on nationally:

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

Coco Gauff is standing firm after criticism of her natural hair in a Miu Miu shoot.

“The girls who get it, get it.”

Her message is simple. Wear your hair how you want. No explanations needed.

[The Chicago Public Education Fund @TheFundChicago]

Happy #APWeek, Network 4!

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

Chicago has turned all public school IDs into library cards to boost student access. https://t.co/EXnWj19zQ3

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

33,000 military veterans are currently homeless.

[David Santana @dsantana310]

get ready everyone:

in just 4 days, we’re going to let grown men who hit a ball with a bat affect our mood all summer

[Kyla Bailenson @KBailens]

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

⁨We’ve all seen the chaos unleashed by Democrats at airports across the country. It’s preposterous that Chuck Schumer continues to hold TSA funding hostage.

Thankfully, ICE will bring sanity to our airports starting tomorrow, but it’s far past time for Democrats to fund DHS.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Seen in Boston...

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: What do you think of Sid Rosenberg using the term cockroach?

Mamdani: So Muslims in this city, for almost as long as we have been in this city, have had to deal with those with power and platform dehumanizing us — to be called animals, insects, to be called a jihadist mayor….

This language is both painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker, but also as someone who was born in East Africa, and it is difficult to hear. There’s also a reminder that the silence that often greets this kind of bigotry, this kind of Islamophobia, is what allows it to fester — the temptation to treat it as politics as usual.

And I want to be very clear that I have far more urgent work in front of me than indulging the provocations of a man who trades in outrage and, frankly, fears the city that we are looking to build — one where every single New Yorker who lives here can call it their home.

I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of my faith. I am not ashamed of being the first Muslim mayor in the history of our city. And there’s no amount of racism that will change the way in which I lead or the commitment that I hold to each and every New Yorker in this city.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how media lies to you in real time.

[bebo, chicago rat czar 🐀 @BebopOtt]

Today, our hearts are bursting with love.

Welcome to the world, my son and yours: Abolish ICE

[🟡 The tumboy 🟡 @TheTumboy]

The Pitt but instead of a hospital it’s night shift at a Waffle House