Migrant kids are being held in a South Texas detention center longer than a court order allows. The nation’s only detention center for families is routinely holding children beyond the 20-day limit, including an Iranian-born “average American kid” who’s been locked up for 123 days and counting.

Texas detention center holding kids beyond court-ordered limit

The nation’s only detention center for families is routinely holding children beyond the 20-day limit, including an Iranian-born “average American kid” who’s been locked up for 123 days and counting.

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"Blessed are you who weep..." This speech by Jamestalarico.com about #ICELawlessness is incredibly moving. We must take our anguish, our sadness, our fear & our frustration & turn it to fire! We must act & supporting candidates who will hold this administration accountable is the #1 thing to do.🧵

The measure of a society is how it invests in its children. For decades, I have advocated for Head Start because every child deserves a strong start in life. Today, I stand with the more than 100 civil rights and child advocacy organizations opposing efforts to dismantle the program from within.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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Just off the top of my head, the $5 million used on this project would fund hundreds of college scholarships, or provide rural broadband, or ensure reading interventions for thousands of struggling readers

Luke Radel@lukeradel.bsky.social · 2w ago

You paid for this. @meidastouch.com

More than 1,000 students from across the country joined us on Capitol Hill this week to urge Congress to pass the Dream and Promise Act, which would grant a long overdue pathway to citizenship to over 4 million Americans. Help us put pressure on our representatives at aclu.org/dream-promise-bsky

August as an academic

As Educators Warned Years Ago, Lots Of Teachers Are Leaving The Classroom larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/08/01/a...

solid sub-head - meaning, good lord:”failed to block funding” so contriving an alternate evil to inflict harm on poor children

Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary https://theonion.com/teacher-required-to-provide-own-salary/

GOP officials questioned support of teachers cultivating learning spaces inclusive of all children. NBCTs' students gain 5 months of additional learning in math,1.5 months in reading, 18% reduction in suspension & 10% decrease in chronic absences www.texastribune.org/2026/07/24/t...

National teacher certification must comply with Texas’ anti-DEI law

If National Board officials don’t show compliance with state law, they risk Texas excluding educators with the credential from a pay-for-performance program.

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It’s that time of year again. Teachers, THANK YOU for what you do. If you need help stocking your room this year, please drop a link to your Classroom Wishlists in the comments! I’ll get as much as I can, and there are always some great members of the community who chip in too!

“Complaints about Nolan’s “Odyssey” are mainly complaints about what does and doesn’t count as Western, as manly, and as heroic art.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vand...

The New Vandals

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" offends right-wingers' notion that only white men make history.

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Positioning the soulless pursuit of hollow ‘achievement’ as a perk of the “teacherless classroom” is quite the sales pitch. “If a kid asks who won against Colombia last night in the World Cup, it will say, ‘I can’t tell you that, let’s get back to your mathematics” www.ft.com/content/0070...

Elite AI-powered schools insist they provide route to excellence

Long-term effects of incorporating the technology into learning are still unknown, but inequalities are emerging

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“This severs the guardrails [and] eliminates the ability for students to fully access their rights, and it creates unnecessary and unjustified barriers to access their education.” www.edweek.org/leadership/e...

Education Department Scraps Longstanding Discrimination Rules

Districts will no longer be liable for "disparate impact"—in discipline, course access, or CTE programs.

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ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters. Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months. bit.ly/4pGQl1N

ICE arresting relatives trying to take custody of migrant kids

Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.

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As states play a larger role in shaping curriculum, local communities have fewer opportunities to influence how history and other complex subjects are taught. Our newest article explores why transparency, local control, and community voices matter. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/what_should_...

What Should Schools Teach, and Who Decides?

As states increasingly shape curriculum, who decides what students learn? Explore why local control, transparency, and community voices matter.

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Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

Trans rights are human rights. Trans youth deserve dignity and safety. Gender affirming care benefits everyone, but especially trans folks because it saves lives. 🏳️‍⚧️

I just sent this out to Democracy Docket premium members, but in light of the Postmasters comments this morning threatening voting by mail, I felt it is urgent to post it online for everyone. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...

Mail-in voting is under attack. Here's what you can do

The USPS is proposing a rule that would require states to share information about voters who request mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections.

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Why Texas' Fight Over Social Studies Standards Has National Consequences: The Texas State Board of Education is poised to vote on a new set of controversial social studies standards this week.

Why Texas' Fight Over Social Studies Standards Has National Consequences

The Texas State Board of Education is poised to vote on a new set of controversial social studies standards this week.

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A majority of Texans oppose the construction of data centers in their community, including nearly two-thirds of Texans living in rural areas, according to a new poll from the University of Texas/Texas Politics Project.

Majority of Texans oppose data center construction

Opposition was most intense in rural counties. Texas is poised to be the No. 1 market for data centers in the U.S., with the most planned projects of any state.

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“An AI bot can prompt, explain & guide, but it cannot notice confusion on a student’s face. It can see when a student answers incorrectly. But curiosity, resilience, belonging and the slow work of figuring out who you are cannot show up on a dashboard” theconversation.com/ai-schools-l...

AI schools like Alpha promise efficiency, but can’t replicate the messy process that helps kids learn

AI schools try to tailor learning to match students’ abilities. But they can’t help young people learn who they are.

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the importance of reading

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

“The state’s failure was “forcing the County to consider loans that will accrue interest we can never recoup.” On top of the estimated $25 million that Philadelphia forked over, Wall Street profits were easily in the tens of millions more” truthout.org/articles/eme...

Emergency Loans Are Costing US Schools Millions — and Lining Wall Street Pockets

States’ political failures are causing a massive transfer of wealth from classrooms to the richest banks in the nation.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce data showed that economic benefits of a large data center decline substantially after the construction phase. More like warehouses that surge short-term construction jobs followed by tax revenue w/out many contributions to local economy www.brookings.edu/articles/tur...

Turning the data center boom into long-term, local prosperity | Brookings

Local leaders are questioning the credibility of Big Tech’s promises of spillover effects that will produce high-quality economic development beyond near-term construction.

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“Data centers, like other imagined “economic game-changers,” are highly capital-intensive, non-labor intensive enterprises that create few jobs and inject little money into host communities” ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/why-data-cen...

Why Data Centers Will Be Economic Development Duds

Data centers are highly capital intensive, non-labor intensive enterprises that create few jobs & inject little money into host communities.

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