Jessica Fregni

🎞 Animation & film fanatic | 🐈 🐈 & 🌱 lady | Always cooking 🍳 | Learning 🇮🇹 | Writer | Opinions and takes: my own

[Mara Gay @MaraGay]

All jokes aside: an entire generation of New Yorkers has been completely priced out of buying homes in their own communities. I think we help people most in need first (homeless, the working poor). But the inability of middle class to put down roots in nyc is a real problem.

[Monica Klein @MonicaCKlein]

.@RayForMayor & @ShaunDonovanNYC both think a home in Brooklyn costs $100K...

How can you fix the city’s housing crisis if you’re this oblivious?

[Jessica Fregni @thejessibuzz]

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#Wifi4Homeless #digitaldivide

[Jessica Fregni @thejessibuzz]

My story on the digital divide and how it's impacting homeless students in NYC is cited in this committee report urging the de Blasio administration to provide internet access to homeless shelters. So exciting to see! #Wifi4Homeless #digitaldivide

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[Jodi Cohen @Jodiscohen]

As a journalist, I’m so heartened to see people take interest in this story. If it’s helpful, I hope you’ll reply here to connect with one another and share.

https://t.co/pjFhaNnnnY

[Dana Goldstein @DanaGoldstein]

Kids are scared they’re going to fall behind. Education leaders are debating ideas for how to catch children up so they don’t experience learning loss that impacts the rest of their lives. Our latest, via @adampopescu, @nhannahjones and me https://t.co/LJRsvOHPLB

[Dana Goldstein @DanaGoldstein]

Remember that you need many elements to make online learning from home work: Internet, a functional device, adult supervision, and to be free from responsibilities such as babysitting for younger siblings while parents work.

[Ed Post 🎓 @edu_post]

Over at @TeachForAmerica, read about how organizations like @chiefsforchange are working to fix the gender gap in superintendents' offices around the country.
https://t.co/uVj8toDGkb

[ⒿⒶⓎ ⒷⓇⓄⓌⓃ jaybrown.bsky.social @TheMrJayBrown]

The NY Post is truly the worst. They referenced the first and only NYC case of COVID-19 and that it's in Manhattan, yet for some reason they used a photo of an Asian man in Flushing, Queens?

If you don't already do so, #BoycottNYPost print and digital media.

[New Jersey @NJGov]

is your child texting about new jersey?

TBH: taking bagels home
DTF: disco those fries
WTH: want taylor ham?
WPR: want pork roll?
BDE: big diner energy
OMG: oh my gabagool
SMH: springsteen my hero
DTS: down the shore
FTW: for the wawa
JH: jug handle
IDC: i dig central (jersey)

[Vintage Books @IReadVintage]

.@Abdi_Iftin, author of CALL ME AMERICAN, was back on @ThisAmerLife sharing a life update!
https://t.co/HHrncrPBUx

[Edgar Villanueva @VillanuevaEdgar]

Thanks for hosting me, @CICFoundation, and thanks for standing with me in the light! I’m inspired by your steps to dismantle systemic racism and to support spaces for racial healing in your communities. #decolonizingwealth

[Jessica Fregni @thejessibuzz]

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Some schools in Eastern Kentucky are equipped with state of the art classroom technology and the high-speed internet necessary to run it, allowing them to focus on preparing students for a 21st-century future in the region. #withoutwifi @SchottFound

[Jessica Fregni @thejessibuzz]

“McKee has one stop light. We have two. So it can work here as well.”

The town featured in @suehalpernVT's incredible piece in The New Yorker is giving hope to other communities in Appalachia struggling with internet access.

https://t.co/hLOZLx2YWy

#WithoutWifi.

[Jessica Fregni @thejessibuzz]

Slow internet was hindering students in one Eastern Kentucky county, so the community came together to do something about it. #homeworkgap #ruraleducation @nrea1 https://t.co/hLOZLx2YWy

[Jessica Fregni @thejessibuzz]

For many students in rural communities, access to high-speed internet at home can be sparse and expensive, or sometimes not even an option at all.

Please check it out my three-part series on the #ruralbroadbandgap: https://t.co/8RYnbJI3Q1

@EdWriters

[Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan]

They can keep trying but they'll learn hate has no home here.

We will not be intimidated. We will not be divided.