Having autism in the 1800s would be so ass. You had to do shit like organize lamp oil instead of watch sonic videos on YouTube

A former autism center employee tried to report fraud to the state. Nobody responded.  • Minnesota Reformer minnesotareformer.com/2024/09/17/a-f…

High-speed rail, using steam locomotives. To quote Apollo 13, "It's not a miracle. We just decided to go."

👉👉👉“One of our researchers started referring to this as ghosting,” Center on Reinventing Public Education Robin Lake tells The 74 Amanda Geduld. “Parents were being ghosted by their schools & not getting information about how their kids were doing academically.” the74million.org/article/new-re…

My kingdom for a tater tot emoji.

I'm at MPS Finance Committee & there are 3 members of the public here. Everyone else (~10 ppl) is an MPS employee, School Board Director, or media. Meetings aren't streamed. It's like this every month (except 1). And THAT is how we got here in a nutshell. meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/…

To summarize the state of things in MPS: 1. Last year's Pro Forma warned about the risk of statutory operating debt *next year*. 2. Revenue since then is LOWER and expenditures are HIGHER. 3. But ... it's all good?... A Fin Comm thread.

Really enjoyed the conversation today - thanks Michael Brodkorb and Becky (Alery) Scherr!

It’s magical

Me, an intellectual, asking them more questions until the bell rung lol

When will we have the serious conversation about gun control that leads to safe learning environments regardless je assigned or by choice It is time to pay attention to academic out ones and school safety equally.

Takeaways from #NLGJA2024: LGBTQ+ journalists discussed the upcoming election, AI’s impact on the industry and the need for more queer representation in media. News is Out: National Queer Media Collaborative debuted its first panel to an engaged audience! localmedia.org/2024/09/five-b… Dana Piccoli

When the Boston Center for Independent Living was founded in 1974, disabled people had very few options for living on their own. I took a look at the organization's 50-year history, and what's in the future for the independent living movement GBH News wgbh.org/news/local/202…

Changes to how the Chicago school board runs its meetings, effective immediately: - a lottery for registered speakers instead of first-come-first-served - a 5-minute limit on public comment for labor and elected officials - regular roundtables to get feedback from students

Seattle school closure proposals are getting lots of attention. We suggest examining each school's costs and outcomes as part of the process. Here's an interactive display with the data for SPS: edunomicslab.org/usingdata-in-d…

Disabled women make 50 cents for every dollar a non-disabled man makes. The gap is even steeper for Black, Latina and Indigenous disabled women. bit.ly/3Xq72AS

Today is the first ever #DisabledWomensEqualPayDay. I wrote about some of the disparities in more detail and how the day came about 19thnews. 19thnews.org/2024/09/first-…

I reached out to the Minnesota Department of Health. They said the following: “While we understand the interest in knowing specific locations, we prefer not to name individual schools… Sharing this information impacts our ability to work closely with these facilities.”

I still legitimately do not understand this.

Part of the FSA/OWI Collection at the Library of Congress Opening of the Mexican Independence Day celebration. Saint Paul, Minnesota (1937)