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Bruce Lesley

@brucelesley.bsky.social

Proud father of 4. Child advocate. President of First Focus on Children & First Focus Campaign for Children. Basketball fanatic. Kids Can't Wait on Substack. #InvestInKids #VoteKids

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Bruce Lesley@brucelesley.bsky.social · 7h ago

Texas Republican Platform: Leaving Children Uninsured, Underserved, Unheard, and Unprotected brucelesley.substack.com/p/texas-repu... Texas has 1 in 10 of the nation’s children, which is why the Texas Republican Party platform should concern all of us.

Texas Republican Platform: Leaving Children Uninsured, Underserved, Unheard, and Unprotected

There is far more to what happened at the Texas GOP Convention than the story about the elephant peeing all over the convention floor.

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Bruce Lesley@brucelesley.bsky.social · 2d ago

3 Months Until Election Day: 10 Questions Candidates Should Answer for America’s Children open.substack.com/pub/bruceles... Today is 3 months from the mid-term elections. Here are 10 things to push candidates to support for children. #VoteKids

3 Months Until Election Day: 10 Questions Candidates Should Answer for America’s Children

Ten things to ask any politician who wants your vote this November — for Congress, for governor, or for your state legislature.

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Bruce Lesley@brucelesley.bsky.social · 5d ago

What the Washington Post Gets Wrong About MediKids open.substack.com/pub/bruceles... The uninsured rate for children is rising rapidly. We should get our country back on the path to covering all kids. Senator Andy Kim's MediKids bill would do just that.

What the Washington Post Gets Wrong About MediKids

A response to the Washington Post's editorial against covering every child and the question the Post’s editorial board seems shockingly unconcerned about: what happens to the kids left uncovered?

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Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rules like this obviously make individual children more vulnerable to abuse, bullying, scams, and ill health and make entire communities more vulnerable to shootings and other forms of violence, but they also diminish trust between educators and children and it's hard not to see this as a goal.

Alina B Baciu@alinabbaciu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sobering overview of what’s at stake if Congress okays dismantling the Department of Education: the only cabinet level role focused on children. US education, state-led with federal support, is not A+ anyway, but chaos, fragmentation, hostility to equity won’t help. open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Dismantling the Department of Education: Ten Bills That Ask Zero Questions About What Happens to Kids

Ten bills up for a vote this week would give school districts four federal agencies to deal with instead of one and eliminate the only Cabinet seat focused on children.

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Bruce Lesley@brucelesley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Open Letter to the National Assessment Governing Board: Stop Letting Others Lie About Our Children with Your Data open.substack.com/pub/bruceles... Cites @roblevine82.bsky.social @plthomasedd.bsky.social @palan57.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social @brookings.edu

Open Letter to the National Assessment Governing Board: Stop Letting Others Lie About Our Children with Your Data

NAEP Proficient is not grade level. It never has been. They have an ethical responsibility to correct the public misuse of the data.

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Center for American Progress@americanprogress.bsky.social · 3w ago

RSVP for our event on Wednesday, July 29, with @americasvoice.bsky.social, featuring @cortezmasto.senate.gov and expert panelists @brucelesley.bsky.social, @melissa-in-dc.bsky.social, and @stanveuger.bsky.social. ampr.gs/4wrRZqR

The Cruelty and Recklessness Must End

America’s immigration system has been broken for far too long.  Congressional inaction going back decades has resulted in an antiquated legal framework that has failed to keep pace with our economic n...

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Bruce Lesley@brucelesley.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Cruelty and Recklessness Must End: We Need Better Immigration Policies for a Stronger America - Center for American Progress www.americanprogress.org/events/the-c...

The Cruelty and Recklessness Must End: We Need Better Immigration Policies for a Stronger America

Please join the Center for American Progress and America’s Voice to hear from Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and a panel of experts on the Trump administration’s cruel and reckless…

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EdTrust@edtrust.bsky.social · 3w ago

EdTrust and 92 organizations oppose the package of legislation that would allow the Trump administration’s illegal dismantling of the Department of Ed to happen. Read the full statement: https://edtru.st/44vwhpl #ProtectPublicEducation

92 Education, Civil Rights, and Disability Organizations’ Joint Statement in Opposition to Legislation to Provide Cover to the Administration’s Illegal Dismantling of the Department of Education

92 organizations strongly oppose the package of IAA bills set to be marked up in the House Education and Workforce Committee this week

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Peggy Stuart@peggystuart.bsky.social · last mo.

Rep. Ivey: It's going to cost $125M to change the name from Department of Defense to Department of War. Vought: "It's common sense." (We could spend $125M on healthcare, food, education, infrastructure, but we have to tell the world that we're going to attack first, not just defending ourselves?)