NWICPE

The mission of the Northwest Indiana Coalition for Public Education is to advocate for a high quality and equitable public education for every child in NWI.

[NWICPE @nwicpe]

https://t.co/R8AsWapOC0 you can use for NWICPE advocates and allies!

[Joel Hand @JoelHandAtty]

@IC4PE @ICPE_MC @nwicpe @outragedmomto3 @IndyApples @IPS_CC @sebloom @NEIFPE

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

The GOP wants to take over all public school boards. CRT and mask mandates are a pretext, which they use to manipulate low information people to help them. This has been a long term GOP goal. They want to take over public education. So they can kill it. 1/

[Jeff Bryant @jeffbcdm]

Why is it that radical rightwing Republicans and libertarians see the centrality of public education to democracy while Democrats and progressives see defending schools as mostly an economic argument about "leveling the playing field" and preserving the myth of "opportunity"?

[NWICPE @nwicpe]

@nkellyatJG Your Twitter feed helps us in NWI know what is going on at the Statehouse. You are incredibly valued. We are grateful.

[Chad Priest @ChadSPriest]

🚨🚨An urgent 🧵 about #COVID in Indiana.

1/ Dear Hoosiers: We have a #COVID problem. Our 7-day average positivity rate is hovering around 11%. The last time we saw positivity like this – May, 20202; Oct, 2020; Jan, 2021.

[Arika Herron @ArikaHerron]

You guys. I can’t stop thinking about “this is our Martin Luther King moment to say no.”

[Lauren Groff @legroff]

The malice here, the calculated undermining of excellent free public education.

[Jennifer McCormick @mccormickforgov]

Remember when schools had stacks of submitted applications and solid leads for various positions?

There are many school district job openings out there…1,851 (per DOE)

Supt & Principals…🙏

[NWICPE @nwicpe]

@JoelHandAtty @ArikaHerron @SBTribune @IC4PE @ICPE_MC @NEIFPE @IPS_CC @IndyApples It runs contrary to what we know children need—the time and space to try, experiment, dabble, investigate.

[Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer @cfrBloomington]

@JoelHandAtty @ArikaHerron @SBTribune @IC4PE @ICPE_MC @nwicpe @NEIFPE @IPS_CC @IndyApples In a word, no. This is what a marketplace of schools looks like. Soccer, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, everyone in on the action of creating a niche school, watering down funding and quality. Focus on what sells instead of the common good.

[NWICPE @nwicpe]

“Issues of race are not going away. . . Diversity is a great thing” - Napthalia Ruth

[NWICPE @nwicpe]

Starting at 6:30! https://t.co/6b8uvIkppC

[Andrew Johnson @GburgAddress]

No thanks for this framing, @TIME. This year has been awfully difficult, but the gains my students and I have made do not reveal a "lost" year. To the contrary, my students' perseverance has been extraordinary.

[NWICPE @nwicpe]

Education and Race-Skills and Tools for Educators to Overcome Racial Barriers to Learning https://t.co/61neoqzoJN

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Very excited to announce the @IBWellsSociety is sponsoring several investigative reporting internships this summer targeted towards HBCU students and students from other under-represented groups. The first amazing opportunity is to intern on the investigations desk @nytimes !

[Jennifer McCormick @mccormickforgov]

Message from the Statehouse 2021 is loud and clear...we are gutting public education and other public services while also eliminating your protections and rights against 90% of Hoosiers’ opinions, but it is for your own good. 🤦🏼‍♀️

We know better.

[ISBA @isbanews]

OVERSIGHT PROHIBITED BY STATUTE: Believe it or not, the ESA legislation actually says state agencies "may not in any way regulate" the activities of a nonpublic school that accepts money from an ESA account. #ESAisnotOK #SupportINPublicSchools

[Joel Hand @JoelHandAtty]

@SCM_Supt @cfrBloomington @HicksCBER Interesting that the state has spent right at about $1 billion on private school vouchers since 2011. Does anyone think that is really a coincidence? I don't. @IC4PE @ICPE_MC @nwicpe @NEIFPE @IPS_CC @IndyApples @INHouseGOP @inhsedems @INSenateGOP @INSenDems @HolcombForIN

[Jennifer Robinson @JennyJRbnsn]

The choice scholarship program (i.e., school vouchers) cost Indiana taxpayers $172 million last year. The cumulative amount that Indiana has spent on vouchers is now more than $1 billion @IC4PE @ICPE_MC https://t.co/HqYq1yTxmw