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Gavin Healy

@gavinhealy.bsky.social

Author of A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785900/a-guide-to-maos-china/#bookTabs=1

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 7d ago

This is at least the fourth person with diabetes to die in ICE custody just this year. Many more have been hospitalized and/or reported starving themselves so they wouldn’t die after being denied care. Is anyone aware of any litigation specific to immigrants with diabetes?

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 7d ago

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · 4w ago

When you casually link in your piece to a Manhattan Institute tweet that compares test scores and funding between PS 307 and Community Roots charter while purposefully omitting how vastly different their student populations are, then you are actively misinforming your readers 👎🏻

Demographics for Community Roots charter, a non-Title I school Student Count 200 180 160 140 120 100 100 ENROLLMENT BY ETHNICITY 210 AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE 2 0% BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 100 21% HISPANIC OR LATINO 79 17% 79 80 ASIAN OR NATIVE HAWAIIAN/OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 60 55 27 6% 40 27 WHITE 20 2 210 44% 0 American Black HISPANKSIAN OR WHITEULTIRACIAL Indian or AfricanOR LATINGTIVE Alaska NatAmerican HAWAIIAN/ OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER MULTIRACIAL 55 12% OTHER GROUPS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED 11 2% 159 34% 149 32% MIGRANT HOMELESS FOSTER CARE PARENT IN ARMED FORCES 10 2% - - Demographics for PS 307, an extremely high-poverty school where nearly 50% of the students have a disability, the majority of whom have an IEP that requires a lower class size Student Count ENROLLMENT BY ETHNICITY 111 110 AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE 100 6 90 3% 83 BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 80 111 48% 70 HISPANIC OR LATINO 60 50 83 36% 40 ASIAN OR NATIVE HAWAIIAN/OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 30 8 3% 20 14 WHITE 10 6 14 6% American Black HISPANISIAN OR WHITEULTIRACIAL Indian or AfricanOR LATINGTIVE Alaska NatAmerican HAWAIIAN/ OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER MULTIRACIAL 8 3% OTHER GROUPS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED 26 11% 107 47% 207 90% MIGRANT HOMELESS FOSTER CARE PARENT IN ARMED FORCES - 61 27%
Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · 4w ago

Black parents said Hannah-Jones’ essay illustrates the Catch-22 they’ve encountered: If they choose a school with a better academic reputation and a higher share of white students, will that come at the expense of their child’s emotional well-being?

Gavin Healy@gavinhealy.bsky.social · last mo.

More from the training for the NYC CEC Antidiscrimination and Antiharassment Policy (Reg D210). In 2023 the FACE Dep Chancellor told me D210 was “an unfunded mandate inherited from the previous administration.” This training seems more about limiting DOE liability than protecting students/families.

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Gavin Healy@gavinhealy.bsky.social · last mo.

This AI slop is from the required training module for the NYC Citywide and Community Education Council Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy (Chancellor’s Regulation D-210). John Davis’s name plaque is facing backwards and both of the women on the left are named “Maria Garcia."

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Jen Jennings@jenjennings.bsky.social · last mo.

🧵 Let's talk about the backstory here, which you can also read about in my book. Bergtraum was 1 of 8 new selective citywide career-themed HS opened between 1969-82. 8 new schools doesn't sound like a lot, but at the time, there were 86 HS in NYC & new schs recruited from the whole city. 1/12

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Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · last mo.

Once a premier business high school with 3,000 students, Murry Bergtraum has shrunk to about 90 kids. Why have city leaders let the struggling NYC school stay open?

Robin Broshi@eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · last mo.

The most depressing outcome from my time as a parent leader advocating for admissions reforms to make middle and high schools more uniformly accessible was watching “nice, liberal” parents team up with rabid racists and transphobes to protect the status quo.

Jen Jennings@jenjennings.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m excited to share that The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Public Education is officially out in the world. It seemed important to find a slice.

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CNN@cnn.com · last mo.

Antoinette Forbes, a 53-year-old single mother, was last seen Friday, September 4, in Washington DC according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Her family is searching for answers.

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The messianic, desperate push by NYCPS employees and “parents’ rights” activists for an OpenAI/Google-controlled public high school didn’t happen by accident Moratoriums aren’t enough, the mayor needs to install much narrower guardrails for dealing with these companies, they aren’t our pals

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"This playbook allows the companies to shape the American education system in ways that benefit them." This is the reporting we need in education. This entire piece is essential reading. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you think it can’t happen to you, realize that a couple of people in New York City were wined and dined and fellowed by Google and OpenAI and next thing you know it became a top, almost desperate priority of NYCPS to create an AI HS, planned and run with those firms Let’s be careful out there!