Every time someone utters "I'll shut down the Department of Education," a 28th Amendment angel gets its wings.

“when taxpayer $ are involved, [“accountability to parents”] can’t be the only answer. The reason we pitch in to pay for public ed is that all of us benefit when all…are well-schooled & can access the knowledge needed to make their way successfully through life”

America enjoyed a prosperous & healthier 20th century because of compulsory education. Bringing back child labor? Not “America’s best ideals.”

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A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless that horse is taking public dollars away from public schools and redirecting them to private institution to enrich some horse’s

Whoever designed Texas’ new kindergarten unit on Kings & Queens knew exactly what they were doing

Texas Kindergarteners will be taught that "over 150 years ago some people in our country were enslaved" "Africa is one place from which people were brought as slaves" "when the country was founded, slavery still existed in most countries in the world"

Spicy take on TJ via the TX kindergarten curriculum unit on "Our Great Country" "Whenever he was not sure about what to do, Jefferson read the words he himself had written. They always helped him make good decisions, and they are still helping us today."

when did lesson plans get so scary

What whitewashing our history looks like…

Time is zero-sum. When TX adds Bible content to its curriculum, it is going to supplant, not supplement, other content. The most remarkable example I've identified is MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Class materials⬇️ 1/ nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...