The Chicago Tribune editorial board and CTU's Jackson Potter have one idea in common: pay Chicago's school board members. Right now Illinois state law prevents that, but could we see a change? Read all about it in today's Board Rule: board-rule.ghost.io/a-paid-schoo...
Congrats, Morgan! On the flip side, Learning Heroes and TNTP used the UChicago Consortium's 5Essentials to find and highlight schools that work to be places kids want to attend. Read a summary with links in today's Board Rule newsletter: board-rule.ghost.io/a-paid-schoo...
It's a first for the @uscedpolicyhub.bsky.social Substack - we are sharing brand new, original research results! @annarsaavedra.bsky.social, Amie Rapaport and I are looking into reasons for teen absenteeism using the Understanding America Study edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/the-driver...
Mark your calendars for this Friday, March 13! Swing by our local journalism pop-up at Co-Prosperity from 5-7PM to meet the humans behind some of Chicago's coolest independent newsrooms: the Chicago Reader, Lumpen Radio, and @injusticewatch.org
Labeled a gang member and deported, longtime Chicagoan tries to restart in his Mexican hometown www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Happening now at the Broadview, IL ICE facility: waiting for a press conference on the story of Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a US citizen who was reportedly detained by federal immigration agents at O'Hare Airport Thursday and ended up released from a detention facility in Wisconsin early Saturday morning.
Tennessee leads the pack of states that could destroy undocumented children's right to attend school. Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Indiana, and New Jersey are in the mix, too. A bill passed in any of these states could go to the Supreme Court. theintercept.com/2026/03/04/t...
Sunny may be free, but we still need answers. Join Sunny, her family, and community leaders tomorrow at 2pm for a press conference at Broadview, 1930 Beach St. to demand accountability from DHS. Stay tuned for more details to come.
An unscientific poll gauging Paul Vallas for school board president is out. It has no filter so anyone can take it.
www.research.net/r/6667FX5?v=...
Flyer annoucing a rally at the ICE Detention Center, 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, IL Saturday 3/7/2026 at noon.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
That's a very good question.
Steve is being treated like a domestic terrorist only for reporting on the Trump anti-immigrant “blitz” in the Chicago area.
He was detained but NOT charged - yet punished.
This is purely to deter those who question power or even observe what’s being done by DHS.
Again - #JournalismIsNotACrime
The IDOC has not improved health care since the consent decree in Lippert. People are dying, going blind, having amputations due to lack of care for treatable conditions.
chicago.suntimes.com/health/2026/...
The majority of board members say they are committed to picking a new CEO before the coming school year. But there's sentiment in some quarters here that it would be better to wait and choose after the full board is elected and seated in Jan 27.
Chicago Board of Education Member Anusha Thotakura speaks candidly about the need to change school district culture to hold itself accountable to an elected school board. board-rule.ghost.io/infocus-anus...
If you need a break, here's a bit of good news. (Disclosure, yes it's my kiddo, and we're raising money for this trip.) patch.com/illinois/elm...
“The Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
💥“No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, 3 of which — Iran, Nigeria & Venezuela — had never been targeted by US strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in 4 years.”💥
Let's also see if the U.S. population will be able to 'vote out' fascism. If this doesn't happen, should other countries assume that the entire country is therefore "pro-fascism?" And if this is the determination, why shouldn't they attempt regime change through bombing the heck out of the U.S.?
After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin is leaving, and at least one Chicago defense attorney isn’t sad about it.
“Unless Pinocchio is applying for the position, we believe her replacement will be a great improvement” says Chris Parente, lawyer for Marimar Martinez www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/17/d...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 1
Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” said CEO Roger Krone.
If you'd like to be part of something hopeful today, maybe you could throw a few bucks toward helping my daughter get to a geography competition in Thailand? www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...
years ago, I met with a CPS Board member, saying a version of this to him
the choices of those with power will live on long past their exit from the agency
I told him, I'd be stuck navigating his bad choices
it is really common for young people and parents to hold the archive of CPS bad behavior
How quickly they forget...
Seems likely!
Here's a link to the survey that @marisakabas.bsky.social cited
"Since November 2024, the majority (57%) of LGBTQ people—including 84% of transgender and nonbinary people—have made significant life decisions or taken steps in response to LGBTQ-related politics or laws"
