“…Google gains unprecedented insight into how enterprise AI infrastructure is built and where its weaknesses are.
This looks less like a product acquisition and more like an infrastructure land grab. Control the security layer and you influence the entire AI stack.”
"Together the Naviance lawsuit & the SIS breach tell the same story: a company accumulated an extraordinary amount of power over children’s data w/out building the legal commitments, security architecture or institutional culture necessary to be trusted with it" captaincompliance.com/education/th...
Graphic of an island setting with young person, wearing a backpack, holding a shovel in front of a treasure trust full of gold. Text: God's new gold mine New Federal K-12 Scholarship Tax Credit Help kids find the narrow way! BROUGHT TO YOU BY MY CHURCH SGO WWW.MYCHURCHSG.ORG SGO presentation for Donors
Speaking of that new Trump federal school voucher program… just going to leave this here.
“God’s new gold mine”: youtu.be/AgY6Bww-YZA?...
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Before No Kings Day on March 28, we highly recommend joining the @aclu.org’s know your rights training. You will learn about your constitutional right to peacefully protest and best practices for reducing risks while taking to the streets.
DOGE tore down the Education Department’s research and statistical agency. Now some in the Trump administration are pushing to rebuild it
A year ago, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept into the Department of Education and devastated its research arm, the Institute of Education…
“I’m concerned many of these efforts are framed as empowering families over their children's education. That kind of messaging is disingenuous and misleading.” Ed prof Alexios Rosario-Moore on the fed school voucher program and primary election referendum: www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/20...
"Discontinued federal grant funding for expanding social services & improving student attendance in more than a dozen Illinois school districts will be partially reinstated—but a messy legal battle over tens of millions more grant dollars nationwide is far from over." www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Monday March 16, join us for a panel discussing the real harms of school vouchers. We are urging Illinois state leaders to reject both federal voucher programs and misleading ballot initiatives that promote them.
Join us March 16 at 6:00 pm!
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“The entire architecture of most standardized test reporting is built around telling parents who their kids are better than (the core of norm-referencing). This is almost entirely useless for a parent trying to make decisions.”
“It is now time for us as a state to put in the public dollars to fully fund that formula, not get distracted with gimmicks that will send public dollars to private programs that discriminate.” — @lwvgr.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Proud to join all those supporting #NoKingsChicago!
Rise up with us: bit.ly/NoKingsChiMa...
Dark teal background, text reading: Help spread the word about a misleading pro-voucher question on IL primary ballots!/Tuesday, March 10, 6pm/ MAKE THE CALL for PUBLIC Schools/ We’re reaching out to voters to say: Vote NO on federal vouchers for Illinois! Public dollars must be for public schools!Graphic of a phone and a schoolhouse/ bit.ly/3_10callsforschools Image of a blue t-shirt with “Strong Schools = Strong Communities” printed on it in white with text reading: We're raffling off this rad Raygun shirt, so a lucky caller can keep showing their public school support!
Help us let voters know there’s a misleading pro-voucher question on their primary ballot, orchestrated by the Illinois Policy Institute (an ultra-conservative, anti-public school org funded by rightwing billionaires) as a ploy to garner support for federal vouchers. RSVP bit.ly/3_10callsforschools
I mentioned autonomous weapons targeting (alongside the domestic spying panopticon aims of DOGE, Palantir, and DHS camps) re: no GenAI policy in my programming class.
Even the most ardent GPT students sat up and took notice.
We have a moral imperative as adults/teachers/mentors to talk about this
We'll provide a quick training over Zoom at 6pm with everything you need to have successful conversations on this important issue. And we'll raffle off a fun @raygunshirts.bsky.social tee, so a lucky caller can rep their support for public schools!
About 10% of IL voters will have this non-binding measure on their ballot and we want them to make an informed choice. If they believe that public funds are for public schools, they should vote NO on vouchers for Illinois!
Dark teal background, text reading: Help spread the word about a misleading pro-voucher question on IL primary ballots!/Tuesday, March 10, 6pm/ MAKE THE CALL for PUBLIC Schools/ We’re reaching out to voters to say: Vote NO on federal vouchers for Illinois! Public dollars must be for public schools!Graphic of a phone and a schoolhouse/ bit.ly/3_10callsforschools Image of a blue t-shirt with “Strong Schools = Strong Communities” printed on it in white with text reading: We're raffling off this rad Raygun shirt, so a lucky caller can keep showing their public school support!
Help us let voters know there’s a misleading pro-voucher question on their primary ballot, orchestrated by the Illinois Policy Institute (an ultra-conservative, anti-public school org funded by rightwing billionaires) as a ploy to garner support for federal vouchers. RSVP bit.ly/3_10callsforschools
“Yet people who…talk about some magical ‘AI’ future insist they're the realists; & the ones who want to fund schools & not the military, hire teachers not buy tech gadgets, build a future that cares for people not profits—we’re the dreamers.” 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/there-is-no-...
"Lunchroom workers are the lowest paid workers in CPS. 88 percent can’t meet basic necessities. 67 percent reported having trouble paying for food and make $22k less than a CPS custodian. 90.7 percent lunchroom workers are people of color" secondcityteachers.substack.com/p/corrupt-ch...
Join us NEXT WEEK!
🚨 Illinois may appear strong in overall school funding, but when it comes to distributing dollars equitably, the state still falls short.
🗓️ Join the conversation on March 10 at 1 PM to explore what must change.
Register today: go.uic.edu/MakingTheGrade
…50 minutes of math, 40 minutes of English and history, 20 minus of independent reading or typing and 20 minutes of independent math, along with a 1.5 hour science lab each week. The remainder of the day spent in religious studies and prayer sessions.
Yeshiva Eitz Chaim, a Chicago boarding school that opened in 2019, has a massively long school day (7:45am - 9:30pm) BUT just over two hours of academic, non-religious instruction per day…
🚨 🧵 This religious boarding school, Yeshiva Eitz Chaim, was an Illinois Invest in Kids voucher recipient AND one of our low-quality curriculum horror story schools. 1/3 of students used public dollar school vouchers.
Vouchers = public dollars, no public oversight
…50 minutes of math, 40 minutes of English and history, 20 minus of independent reading or typing and 20 minutes of independent math, along with a 1.5 hour science lab each week. The remainder of the day is spent in religious studies and prayer sessions.
Yeshiva Eitz Chaim, a Chicago boarding school that opened in 2019, has a massively long school day (7:45am - 9:30pm) BUT just over two hours of academic, non-religious instruction per day…
"Vouchers keep losing at the ballot box. So how do they keep winning?" Billionaires like the Waltons and Reed Hastings bankroll the “parent choice” machine-Lobbying, messaging for new tax-credit voucher schemes that siphon public funds. Read: tinyurl.com/38vp7cp7 @edlawcenter.bsky.social
"Billionaire John Walton, son of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart and the richest family in the US," co-founded the nation’s two largest scholarships granting organizations...Most of their scholarships go to students who leave public schools to attend religious schools." @edlawcenter.bsky.social
“The document shows in stark terms the power, and potential risk, of online advertising data and how it can be leveraged by government agencies for surveillance purposes.” www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
This is exactly right.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
“If the federal government doesn’t want to be involved in education, why are they pushing these vouchers on states that have already defeated the use of vouchers? We need to invest more in public schools rather than give opt-outs to our public schools.” -Cyndi Oberle-Dahm, EVP, @iftaft.bsky.social
“Maybe things aren’t changing all that fast? And/or maybe these stories don’t represent political progress? Maybe all this talk about ‘the future’—a future that’s bound up in robot teachers and ‘AI’ tutors—is actually deeply reactionary? Deeply misogynistic. Deeply racist.”
