.@MickeyDollens is right.
Ryan Walters is unfit to serve as state superintendent.
• His rhetoric & attacks fuel violence.
• He ignores threats to the lives of our kids & teachers.
• He flouts our laws & norms.
• He “leads” with willful negligence.
He must be impeached.
@LtGovPinnell Thank you for calling the incredibly harmful rhetoric and intimidation, and standing with our educators who work to keep kids safe every day.
Please amplify: to accompany the new film The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, we created a suite of lessons for educators to teach her life, the boycott's organizing, Parks' challenge to Northern racism and critical thinking about master narratives: https://t.co/MTrXzEOTAr
This morning at a press conference I tried to ask @DOEChancellor a question about the high rates of car crashes and injuries outside city schools. The result? @NYCSchools had security escort me out of the building. https://t.co/LncQTyCONX Via @GershKuntzman
It’s us. We’re just everybody 🙃
& apparently we don’t deserve our basic human right to a free, appropriate & sound education unless we can meet criteria that is often out of our control. (Attendance,weight of standardized exams despite disparate Ed resources school to school)
Years of advocacy to desegregate our schools, disentangle the system from law enforcement and ensure we have a fairer system are going down the toilet bowl. Painful to watch. https://t.co/OalEiHkRac
A great thread 🧵 on NYC segregation as @DOEChancellor and @NYCMayor prepare to announce decisions on admissions policy.
To desegregate or re-segregate? That is the question…
📣My debut memoir #YearOfTheTiger is available MEOW!
🐅📖💻 Online events, plain language summary (coming soon) and more: https://t.co/Px5b1iyd36
📝 Free discussion guide by @NotYourAvgHo101
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🎧 Official book playlist https://t.co/ZQSp0oYunx
Anytime someone is worried about ‘parents leaving the city’ …we know exactly who they’re talking about &it’s not OUR families.Imagine if officials placed energy into students &parents actually fighting to save& improve education for ALL kids @AppleseedNy @integratenyc @rjps4nyc
Over 6 months later, our statement remains the same.
It would be a tragic misstep to reverse course on policies that have fostered greater transparency & fairness in the HS admissions process.
More on this in recent recs we sent this summer: https://t.co/zuGdXVAfjc
👎BAD news: New York has a long history of policymakers trying to cut public school funding.
👍GOOD news: New York has a long history of parents, youth & educators pushing back and winning!
#RestoreTheCuts
School starts Sept 8. @NYCMayor has 28 days to #RestoreTheCuts and stop the chaos and pain to schools that HE is causing. We'll be reminding him everyday to DO THE RIGHT THING AND #FundOurSchools!
My friend @SFdirewolf is an activist, a brilliant writer, a community connector, & a force for good. You may recognize her from a 2018 episode of #UnitedShades where she educated me on living w/ disabilities. She is a singular human & she needs our help. https://t.co/bDlwEBCnFk
Ir has been painful to have to fight for resources for my children, the kids of #ElBarrio and of all of Manhattan. This could have been avoided. We HAVE the money but our Mayor refuses to just #restorethecuts and is asking us to pray about it.
Shout out to everyone who came through to @EdAntiRacism last weekend🤗
This Saturday I’m presenting at 7 p.m. EST on Mental Health & Self-Care for Educators.
Register at https://t.co/F4cFd4buBe
#edantiracism