Toya Fick

Mom, former teacher. Executive Director of @OregonStand. Oregon is home, but Louisiana is in my soul.

[Toya Fick @toyafick]

@nickkristof Thanks for your piece on the Jim Crow education system. Spot on! We are calling attention to the disparities in Oregon… and making great progress.

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[Toya Fick @toyafick]

“We matter. We matter”

[StandforChildren OR @OregonStand]

School Resource Officers are an integral part of the school-to-prison pipeline which harms so many of our youth. Discontinuing their presence in Portland Public Schools is a big step towards justice.

[Toya Fick @toyafick]

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin.

[Stand for Children @Stand4Children]

20,000 teachers are at risk of deportation if Congress fails to pass the #DreamActNow. Make your voice heard: https://t.co/rKj1ykB8K4

[StandforChildren OR @OregonStand]

Chronic absenteeism ticked up, but #Measure98 funds help OR schools keep their students present&ready to succeed: https://t.co/cyRkGhd2gg

[Sara Gelser Blouin @SenSaraGelser]

Fast fact: In OR similar drug use rates across all races. But black men twice as likely as white men to be convicted of drug offense. #orpol

[Guadalupe Guerrero @CEO_Guadalupe]

New colleagues in OR: Supts Gustavo Balderas @4Jschools & Yvonne Curtis @FGSchools. ONLY 3 Latino system leaders in state w/ 220 districts.

[Statesman Journal @Salem_Statesman]

300 gather, seek solutions to race disparity in Salem-Keizer schools https://t.co/R8WC3WB4Id

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

What could possibly explain such different responses? https://t.co/OFYHgJYcNr

[StandforChildren OR @OregonStand]

This is unacceptable anywhere in our society, but particularly repugnant at our elementary schools. #NoHate https://t.co/OHuhHh2yGo

[John Lewis @repjohnlewis]

Don’t tell me this is about protecting the Second Amendment when you won’t stand up for the First Amendment.

[Children's Institute @Childinst]

96.7 % of kids in Oregon have health insurance. When happens when CHIP funds expire? @OregonGovBrown

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Opinion: 477 days. 521 mass shootings. Zero action from Congress. https://t.co/F2gSHhQkLZ

[Melissa Harris-Perry @MHarrisPerry]

Mass shootings since Sandy Hook, in one map https://t.co/Hy70s3Z5xv via @voxdotcom

[Toya Fick @toyafick]

"A leader leads by serving and serves by leading." Well said, @jodihack4oregon

[Ted Wheeler @tedwheeler]

If the latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act succeeds, Oregonians will bear the brunt of the damage. https://t.co/qojWzdSsdZ

[StandforChildren OR @OregonStand]

ICYMI – Great @oregonlive article on #Measure98 investments raising OR's #GraduationRate, one 9th grader at a time: https://t.co/j31iqHT3vj

[StandforChildren OR @OregonStand]

Over 1/4 of middle schoolers report being bullied. The Kindness Challenge will give them skills like empathy & more: https://t.co/lTi3bdHHPL

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

After the death of Sandra Bland, @karenrgood wondered what to tell her daughter about race. https://t.co/7z3GpHyJQu #TNYarchive