ELC-PA's @mrsl132.bsky.social explains why in today's @inquirer.com: buff.ly/5N92TwD
Head Start offers a model for ending preschool pushout. Don’t weaken it. | Opinion
RFK Jr.’s rule changes to Head Start are not final yet, so the public has until Oct. 6 to voice any opposition to the proposed deregulation.
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Head Start is a model for how we can end preschool pushout — not a program we should deregulate. Its protections against suspending and expelling young children should be expanded to preschools everywhere, not stripped away.
BREAKING: Democrats announce wrongfully dismissed Justice Department attorney Liz Oyer and Epstein survivor Dani Bensky to testify in opposition to Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination.
Liz Oyer served as the Justice Department’s nonpolitical pardon attorney. She was fired by Blanche for refusing to rubberstamp gun ownership rights to Mel Gibson, a convicted domestic violence abuser and friend of Donald Trump.
Liz Oyer was wrongfully fired by Todd Blanche for not doing Trump’s bidding. Dani Bensky was retraumatized as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein because of Todd Blanche’s failures. Both will offer compelling testimony about the dangers of Todd Blanche as an attorney general.
As Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again. Read and share my letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/my-letter-...
My Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Concerning the Nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General
As Deputy Attorney General, Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again.
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“Preschool pushout is not about children failing to meet expectations — it’s about systems failing to meet children’s needs and violating their rights,” said Rose Wehrman, an attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Education Law Center-PA. Read the full article: buff.ly/eqcsuNa
Preschools Disproportionately Kick Out Kids With Disabilities
Children with disabilities as young as 2 are being suspended and expelled from school often for behaviors that are related to their diagnoses, according to a new report detailing their experiences.
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For @lawyeroyer.com to tell @chrislhayes.bsky.social that Trump's new $1.8 slush fund is the most corrupt thing she's seen is... saying something. She referred to it as: "a total sham," a "travesty," an "end run around congress," and "pretty nuts."
But you are what you did And I'll forget you, but I'll never forgive The smallest man who ever lived 🚫No Kings👑 📍 ambler,pa f/t @fooleryco.bsky.social signs 🪧 #NoKings
"Make no mistake. Your place is in the revolution." Poem by @nikitagill.bsky.social Call scripts via @5calls.org 💔
Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.
Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
@eugenedaniels2.bsky.social asks: what’s funny about threatening to cancel elections? exactly. @lawyeroyer.com says trump says these beyond outrageous things, sees what lands. and then pretends some of it was a joke. but we should take everything they say seriously. @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social
The violent acts of ICE in Minnesota last week—including detention of educators and assault on school property—highlights exactly why ICE must abide by long-standing respect for sensitive locations and stay away from schools. Tell Congress—keep ICE out of schools ⤵️ actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Keep ICE Out of Schools
This week, we witnessed unconscionable acts of violence by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota—including the murder of Renee Nicole Good, the handcuffing of school staff, th...
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Info from @edlawcenterpa.bsky.social on important rights that immigrant students and families have in school. Schools must be safe spaces for students. Read through below for some of the protections that exist in PA & federal law. Please share.
Education Law Center-PA@edlawcenterpa.bsky.social · 8mo agoSchools must be safe places for every student to learn, regardless of immigration status. Our new resource page explains immigrant students’ rights and schools’ legal responsibilities, with tools for families, educators, and administrators. 👉 bit.ly/3LBkM9V
"The fear is part of the goal." @lawyeroyer.com on @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social @ms.now. She notes that POTUS and VP do not care about rights. They care about terrorizing people that do not align with their political agenda.
Five years after the Capitol siege and one year after Trump’s mass pardons, dozens of pardoned January 6 rioters are back in prison or facing new charges. I discuss some highlights. youtube.com/shorts/wxQlH...
Dozens of pardoned Jan. 6 rioters charged or convicted of new crimes
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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My sister @lawyeroyer.com with a must read op-ed in today’s @nytimes.com.
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 9mo ago“Americans deserve an impartial assessment of all the misuses of the pardon power that we have seen from presidents of both parties,” Liz Oyer, a former Department of Justice pardon attorney, writes.
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Education Law Center-PA@edlawcenterpa.bsky.social · 10mo agoCelebrate #GivingTuesday with us. Please consider participating in this global day of giving by supporting ELC with a gift of any size. Go to: www.elc-pa.org/donate
Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
today’s @nytimes.com magazine. front page expose featuring my indefatigable sister @lawyeroyer.com and dozens of ex-doj workers like her that have sounded the alarm about the rapid deterioration of all sense of justice in the department.
“The founders of our country entrusted with our president [that the pardon power] would be used for the public good.” — Former US Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer. She’s right. The president is selling off our democracy.
Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
REP. @rokhanna.bsky.social : “This is one of the most horrific & disgusting corruption scandals in our country's history... Because survivors spoke up, the truth is finally going to come out and this country is really going to have a moral reckoning. How did we allow this to happen?”
Grateful to all of the attorneys sounding the alarm about the dismantling of the DOJ. (Including my sister Liz @lawyeroyer.com.)
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 10mo agoThousands of attorneys have left the Trump Justice Department this year. We talked to 60 about what alarmed them most. nyti.ms/3Xy2QiW
Survivor condemns “insane levels of institutional betrayal” amid Epstein file delays Jess Michaels, a survivor of Epstein’s abuse, joins The Weeknight to explain how meeting with members of Congress over the scandal has led to what she calls “insane levels of institutional betrayal and cowardice.”
Happening now: my sister @lawyeroyer.com on @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social talking with @michaelsteele.bsky.social, @symonedsanders.bsky.social, & @aliciamenendez.bsky.social. Liz says: Trump is using pardons to enrich himself, his friends & family, embolden his supporters, & dismantle democracy.
