Tracey Barrett

Public school teacher. Tar Heel born, bred, etc. She/her. Tweets are my own.

[Keung Hui @nckhui]

Thousands of teachers are expected to march in Raleigh on May 1. Is it a strike? Teachers aren't allowed to strike under NC law. But NCAE says it's a mass mobilization & not a strike. Teachers are requesting leave to take the day off. https://t.co/OPHeRtpBGa #ncpol #nced

[Sen. Jay Chaudhuri @jay_chaudhuri]

How many people will lose health care in YOUR counties in North Carolina under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"? #ncga #BigBeautifulBill

Alamance - 11,059
Alexander - 2,140
Alleghany - 640
Anson - 1,892
Ashe - 1,476
Avery - 1,074
Beaufort - 3,167
Bertie - 1,282
Bladen - 2,793
Brunswick - 8,684
Buncombe - 15,825
Burke - 6,907
Cabarrus - 11,478
Caldwell - 5,958
Camden - 330
Carteret - 3,870
Caswell - 1,268
Catawba - 9,602
Chatham - 2,516
Cherokee - 2,195
Chowan - 790
Clay - 760
Cleveland - 7,219
Columbus - 4,189
Craven - 6,256
Cumberland - 28,516
Currituck - 1,095
Dare - 1,556
Davidson - 11,949
Davie - 2,008
Duplin - 3,690
Durham - 17,072
Edgecombe - 5,479
Forsyth - 25,309
Franklin - 3,561
Gaston - 16,436
Gates - 439
Graham - 805
Granville - 3,003
Greene - 1,178
Guilford - 41,678
Halifax - 3,871
Harnett - 8,360
Haywood - 4,154
Henderson - 4.875
Hertford - 2,000
Hoke - 4,134
Hyde - 258
Iredell - 9,134
Jackson - 2,926
Johnston - 12,145
Jones - 620
Lee - 3,545
Lenoir - 5,271
Lincoln - 4,357
Macon - 2,143
Madison - 1,513
Martin - 1,599
McDowell - 3,745
Mecklenburg - 81,665
Mitchell - 889
Montgomery - 1,739
Moore - 4,697
Nash - 6,527
New Hanover - 12,496
Northampton - 1,291
Onslow - 11,742
Orange - 4,525
Pamlico - 803
Pasquotank - 2,507
Pender - 3,531
Perquimans - 764
Person - 2,510
Pitt - 13,533
Polk - 1,099
Randolph - 9,698
Richmond - 4,494
Robeson - 14,745
Rockingham - 6,071
Rowan - 9,289
Rutherford - 5,166
Sampson - 4,698
Scotland - 3,546
Stanly - 3,645
Stokes - 2,962
Surry - 4,695
Swain - 1,773
Transylvania - 1,886
Tyrrell - 187
Union - 10,624
Vance - 4,107
Wake - 48,213
Warren - 1,160
Washington - 840
Watauga - 1,694
Wayne - 8,508
Wilkes - 4,582
Wilson - 5,624
Yadkin - 2,152
Yancey - 1,088

That's more than 663,000 lives the governing majority just put at risk.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

The folks at @TheAssemblyNC are out with a bombshell investigation of the shadowy network of evangelical anti-abortion groups disguised as medical clinics operating across North Carolina - and the tens of millions of our tax dollars Republican lawmakers are dishing out to them.

The investigation documented how these clinics not only straight-up lie to women, but harass them and even steal their personal information for manipulation. Even better? Most of the taxpayer money isn't even going into services at all, but straight into the pockets of anti-abortion leaders.

When Democratic lawmakers demanded more information - where is taxpayers' money going? What are they doing with it? - Republicans blocked their inquiries, and informed the groups they shouldn't respond.

Republican legislators like @DeanArp @RalphHise @joycekrawiec refused to comment for the story.

Our tax dollars at work!

[Adam Lucas @jadamlucas]

With the @uncwomenssoccer NCAA title today, every four-year @UNC student who enrolled since 1977 has been on campus for at least one @goheels national title.

Those original students are now 65 years old.

#GDTBATH

[Nate DiMeo @thememorypalace]

North Carolina! I'll be coming to Durham for a *live show and Q&A and book signing on Monday 12/2. Come on out. *Listen, most podcast live shows are just a couple of dudes sitting in chairs doing a lesser version of their usual show. This is not that. It's actually good.

[Tracey Barrett @traceyebarrett]

@eddy_sarah theyre truly the best 💛

[Tracey Barrett @traceyebarrett]

Did a standardized test write this

[Lamson Nguyen @LamsonNguyen15]

The number of instructional days that are permanently lost due to field trips, college fairs, sporting events, etc is way too high. Extracurricular activities that encroach on the academic calendar and bell schedule are no longer extracurricular. It turns school into summer camp.

[John Reinan @johnnyasheville]

We just got water in Asheville, 19 days after Hurricane Helene. It’s brown and you can’t drink it yet, but once the impurities are flushed out it will be fine. The city has done an amazing job repairing catastrophic damage. Pipes 30-40 feet underground were destroyed.

[Tracey Barrett @traceyebarrett]

What this has made me realize, as an educator who has recommended kids chase these scholarships for 10+years— is that they’re basically operating as head hunters for prestigious schools who want a hand-picked list of students of color who aren’t seen as “risky” to admit

[Tracey Barrett @traceyebarrett]

Yeah so this is extremely disappointing. I did genuinely hope @QuestBridge would react to this disaster with the values they claim to espouse re: giving marginalized students a boost in a process that is stacked against them.

[Tracey Barrett @traceyebarrett]

I was at a water distro site w/a guy who would only direct traffic, no other job. But he kept stopping cars w/ADA tags from being able to park near the water… and pitched a fit when his fellow volunteers called him on it and he left, rather than adjusting. Don’t be that guy

[Caroleeena 🍉 @Caroleeenalala]

A note from a friend in western NC:

[Tracey Barrett @traceyebarrett]

I really hoped the allusions to victim-blaming of Appalachia for “not evacuating” or “ignoring warnings” I had seen in my scraps of cell service this week were overblown. Tonight I have wifi…. and many of y’all will not see heaven

[Simon MacEwan @theblastedheath]

I have no idea why people didn't have stores of fuel and generators, and stocks of food and water. Anyway here's a totally unrelated poverty map of Appalachia.

[Mis Leading @FaatiTheStreet]

I don’t know if y’all have seen this post on FB about Asheville, NC right now, so I’m sharing it here:

@Imani_Barbarin has BEEN telling us about how disabled people are abandoned incrisis, here’s the latest of that happening in the aftermath of #HurricaneHelene #Disability

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.

[Tracey Barrett @traceyebarrett]

I love unions

[NWSLPA @nwsl_players]

Some said a CBA like this would never happen. #WeSaidNow. The Players just secured freedom over their careers and made history as the first American major pro sport to eliminate the draft.
Player freedom secured. Read more about our new CBA via link in bio. #wesaidnow

[Dr. Death Metal @TheUnshored]

These kids dropped an absolute banger

AND smoked the Louisville public school system for their failure to provide adequate bus service to Black students