The man who led the greatest decimation of school funding in recent history has thoughts on education. No thanks. We’ve been busy digging ourselves out of the giant hole he dragged us into by overhauling how we teach reading in the early grades, recruiting and retaining great

Our state budget is due by July 1. The Senate and Governor have presented proposals to begin negotiations. The Republican-led House is like…

MSTEP and NAEP reading scores reflect a “high bar” in terms of reading comprehension. They DO NOT reflect “basic reading level” (i.e. they DO NOT mean large swaths of kids “can’t read”). It would be akin to saying YOU “can’t read” if you didn’t achieve a high sub score on the

As I was trying to interview Rep. Schriver on Tuesday, Rep. Sharon MacDonell (D) walked up and started debating him. She said the high school graduation rate in 1920, the year Schriver was touting for quality education, was about 30%.

It’s simple: You can’t brag about being a champion for thousands of homeless, low-income students who join Job Corps to train for a good job with a roof over their heads – and then shut down the program and send these kids back out on the street. politico.com/newsletters/we…

Things we've learned in the past 24 hours: 1- Men are too emotional to be leaders 2- Elect more Democratic women to office

We ❤️ union dads! Happy #FathersDay from America's unions!

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

MI Republicans: stop playing political games & deliver a final budget. #TimeIsTicking

We are less than one week out from the statutory deadline to pass a budget to fund our schools and local communities. Since the Republicans haven’t even passed most of the draft budgets yet, they called in Ted Nugent today to testify about feral pigs 🙈

“Well, I don’t care if you’re just thirteen, you look too good to be true” Ted Nugent talking about sex offenders in front of committee this morning is a choice.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

CHILDCARE? BABY BASKETS? 😱 OH NO!

Republicans now want to call Trump “Daddy.” Happy Pride Month!

It’s the end of June & House Republicans haven’t even introduced their draft gen gov budget yet—it should have been done by May. Negotiations should have started a month ago, instead they’re playing games. Now they’re blaming everyone else for their inability to govern. Sad.

Thank you Jeremy Moss for joining me in the City of Oak Park 4th of July Parade! I hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th. Today we remember that freedom isn’t free & democracy’s fragile. Let’s keep showing up, on the streets and @ the polls, to protect our legacy & our future