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[amanda vender @VenderAmanda]

@BrianLehrer @imaniperry @WNYC It's important to remember that NYC is the place with the most segregated schools in the nation. Even as we love our multiculturalism, schools with whiter and wealthier students are still the most desirable and any effort to change that faces a huge backlash.

[Congressman Jamaal Bowman @RepBowman]

We have been overusing and misusing standardized tests created by third party for profit companies for over 20 years. My More Teaching Less Testing Act would ensure our kids are not being forced to stifle their creativity and infinite brilliance through yearly standardized tests.

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

“It is the role of government to balance the rights of individuals with the well-being of the larger community,” write @akt1211 & @VenderAmanda.

#EWOpinion #EdChat https://t.co/PRliPb8nGi

[AQE New York (aqeny.bsky.social) @AQE_NY]

@GovKathyHochul is pushing for a massive expansion of charter schools in New York City right now through the state budget.

🚨 Email Gov. Hochul and your State Legislators now and tell them: Don't raise the cap! → https://t.co/RaYdne9csa

[amanda vender @VenderAmanda]

@RepGraceMeng @Grace4NY Will you please co-sponsor H.R. 1741 the "More Teaching, Less Testing" Act to reduce the number of federally required standardized tests? https://t.co/ty3xN5IUj6

[Office of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine @NYCComptroller]

Sorting children into pathways that have immense power to determine their futures, based on their grades when they are eight- or nine-years-old, is inconsistent with a vision for a city where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive.

THREAD

[amanda vender @VenderAmanda]

@ycinnewyork @NYBATs @debalex55 @leoniehaimson @LiuNewYork @errollouis @NYCSchools @GovKathyHochul To be clear: 2 teachers in a class is better than one teacher in a class. Smaller class size is even better.

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

@ycinnewyork @NYBATs @debalex55 @LiuNewYork @errollouis @NYCSchools @GovKathyHochul @VenderAmanda Do your research. Read the bill and stop opposing what NYS highest court said was necessary to provide NYC kids with their right under the state constitution for a sound basic education.

[Saul @saaaauuull]

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: 165 Congressional and agency staff have sent a letter to President Biden and Senator Schumer this morning demanding robust climate policy and a climate emergency declaration now.

We refuse to remain silent until climate policy is passed.

https://t.co/B9QH2dzxrh

[MORE-UFT @MOREcaucusUFT]

Today is a wonderful day to sign the class size bill.

Over 90% of the State Legislature did, so why haven’t you?

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

I’m old enough to remember when Manchin and Sinema both voted to carve out the filibuster in December 2021 to raise the debt ceiling.

Don’t you dare say this Senate can’t get rid of the filibuster.

[amanda vender @VenderAmanda]

With you being PRESIDENT you can act. The majority already voted for you guys.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

With your vote, you can act. You can have the final word. This is not over.

[amanda vender @VenderAmanda]

Seems like you knew it would happen so why didn’t you do anything/why continue to do nothing?

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Make no mistake: Today's overruling of Roe v. Wade is the culmination of a deliberate effort over decades to upset the balance of our law.

It’s a realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the Supreme Court.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Find yourself a Democratic Party establishment that fights as hard for reproductive rights as it fought to crush Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Democrats hold all the levers of power to correct our slide into fascism and their only response is telling people to vote to give them power they already possess. Their inaction makes them complicit.

[Jabari Brisport @JabariBrisport]

There seems to be confusion around NYC school funding. To be clear:

June 10:
Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams proposed a budget that decreased the total funding for schools

June 13:
44 Councilmembers voted yes on the proposal and it passed

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Democrats hold the House, Senate & White House.

Act.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Putin wouldn’t have so much power if the world wasn’t reliant on fossil fuels. It’s time for a Green New Deal.