Barbara McD Dowdall

Retired from A. Philip Randolph Career Tech HS English Department.
Member of the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools (APPS)
GTown History curator

[Barbara McD Dowdall @barbmcdowdall]

Connecting Children with Nature Through Books - https://t.co/p7gGtt0FJi

[PBS News @NewsHour]

After firing more than 100 sitting immigration judges, the Justice Department is now advertising to hire so-called "deportation judges" in their place. https://t.co/2ODfyEJjl7

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it."

—Zora Neale Hurston

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Remember, James Baldwin talks about the 1965 voting rights Act. it was not guaranteed 60 years later they took it away.

[Eric Moran @eric_moran92]

An absolute disaster of a process! The wake of the 2013 closures has left me skeptical that “modernization” will be carried out in a timely or responsible manner.

A state-appointed board created many of these conditions, & a mayor-appointed board kicked the can down the road…🤬

[Andrew Saltz | AVENGE SEPTA @mr_saltz]

1. A Modernization plan, even one that closes schools, is understandable. You might support it.

*This* plan is really bad. There is an aggressive lack of details and accountability that suggests the #phled team is going to make this up as they go.

[Lisa Haver (haver-lisa.bsky.social) @Haver_Lisa]

@mr_saltz Magical thinking based on imaginary funding: @APPSphilly analysis. https://t.co/jr8tRfmAvK

[Barbara McD Dowdall @barbmcdowdall]

@eric_moran92 Pretty clear.

[Eric Moran @eric_moran92]

Who matters in this city?!

[Eric Moran @eric_moran92]

Argue about financial necessity all you want:
- Once again, closures will disproportionately impact areas w/ highest concentrations of poverty.
- The HS closures take away quality options in these areas.
- Schools will be reopened in these areas as gentrifiers’ children grow.

[Barbara McD Dowdall @barbmcdowdall]

@PhillyTrib Heartless. AND fiscally irresponsible. Sure to lose public school families to charters and the suburbs.

[Philadelphia Tribune @PhillyTrib]

Despite two recesses forced by protests led by City Council members, the Philadelphia Board of Education voted 6-3 to pass a $3 billion facilities plan that would close 17 city schools.

https://t.co/XNqGFwnEya

[Eric Moran @eric_moran92]

No surprises from the SRC legacy member…

Sick of these people treating children’s futures as just another charity board.

[Lisa Haver (haver-lisa.bsky.social) @Haver_Lisa]

Democracy in action at ⁦@PHLschoolboard⁩ meeting #PhlEd

[Barbara McD Dowdall @barbmcdowdall]

@Haver_Lisa Possible School Board President Richardson Dilworth and Superintendent Mark Shedd effort to meet student demands for Black history: Penn graduates and former principals' multicultural textbook for the schools: https://t.co/4tHWU3RQLs

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

That’s how presidents speak. LBJ was a big person in so many ways.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump is so disrespectful. He literally cut in front of Queen Camilla while she was shaking hands.

Every day is another embarrassment for our country.

[Maya Wiley @mayawiley]

For as long as Black people have lived in this country, our right to vote & power to decide who leads have been attacked. Today’s SCOTUS decision is a disgrace. Every voter deserves a fair chance to elect people who can be held accountable to meeting their needs & fixing their problems. That includes Black voters. We haven’t just come this far by faith alone. We have come this far by fighting for #votingrights. This isn’t over! @civilrightsorg

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Fran Lebowitz: “The thing that makes New Yorkers the angriest about Trump is other people think he’s a New Yorker. New Yorkers don’t think that, we never thought that. He never wins New York. He never even comes here because he’s so hated. He’s afraid of New York, as he should be”