The case would be one of the most significant dealing with #religion in #PublicSchools since an ideologically divided #SCOTUS ruled in 2022 that a former public high school football coach’s on-field prayers were protected under the #FirstAmendment’s right to #FreeSpeech.
In the current case, the [ultra-conservative] US Court of Appeals for the #5thCircuit in New Orleans upheld the #Texas #law on a 9-8 vote, overturning a lower-court ruling that found the measure #unconstitutional.
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The justices are expected to decide in coming months whether to take up the case, which is being closely watched as conservatives…work to expand #religious “rights” [ #Christian #evangelism ] in public spaces & opponents battle them in court. In April, a conservative appeals court upheld the law in a narrowly divided opinion.
#SCOTUS #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #SeparationOfChurchAndState #TenCommandments #education #PublicSchools #schools #Texas
#CivilLiberties groups Monday asked #SCOTUS to hear their challenge of a #Texas #law requiring that all #PublicSchools’ classrooms display the #TenCommandments, potentially setting up a landmark clash over the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
#SCOTUS asked to hear case on #Texas #law requiring #TenCommandments in #schools
The case could set up a landmark clash over the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.
With this #SupremeCourt, I truly fear the outcome.
#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #education #PublicSchools
Does anyone know someone working in the Oregon public school system? Preferably in an administrative role? I’d love an introduction to talk about tutoring kids.
Janeese #LewisGeorge, a #DemocraticSocialist, leads Kenyan R. McDuffie by double digits in the Democratic primary for #DCmayor, boosted by voters who find her more honest & think she will do a better job handling issues of #affordability & #PublicSchools, acc/to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. But a quarter of voters remain undecided about the race as the primary enters its final days.
I’d love it if a democratic socialist ran the city #Trump lives in.
Financial Hell Is About to Break Loose in American Schools
School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?Adam Laats (Slate Magazine)
One year ago, the #Trump admin gutted the #Education Department’s Office of #EnglishLanguage Acquisition, which is supposed to help about 5 million students in #PublicSchools “attain English proficiency & achieve academic success.”
By “gutted,” I mean cut 14 of the 15 staff positions in that office. Now the department has given #Congress official notice that it plans to dissolve the office entirely.
📍 Naomi Klein unpacks #world affairs and #politics, New Democratic Party (NDP) leadership #election in Canada, and importance of Avi Lewis becoming the new NDP leader on March 29
"And so, we really haven't had that for a long time; politicians who are really able to name the #system itself, and I honestly think it's the only way we can bring people back,"
📍 youtube.com/watch?v=1btIQPHHNk…
#democracy #systemspolitics #unpacking #structures #ideas
#publicschools #publichealth #publictransportation
#PublicEducation in red-state #Idaho:
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From Julie Yamamoto, retired teacher and former Republican rep from Idaho, defeated by a more conservative Republican:
“We’ve experienced this huge shift, from believing that the #PublicSchools were a bastion of our democratic republic…to believing we shouldn’t give them any money at all. And it’s happened so quickly."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Education #MAGA #Republicans #USPol #USPolitics
And…it’s happened…
#Trump Admin Announces Steps to Dismantle #Education Department
Responsibilities for #K12 & #college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.
#law #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #Project2025 #poverty #LowIncome #grants #funding #children #kids
nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/poli…
The #Trump admin laid the groundwork for this change earlier this year when it signed an agreement to move career, technical & adult education grants out of the #Education Dept to the #Labor Dept. Under the arrangement, Education retains oversight & leadership while managing the programs alongside Labor, a way of sidestepping the federal #statute.
#law #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools
Federal #law directs that these programs be housed in the #Education Dept. The #Trump admin is employing a work-around, the people briefed on the matter said, whereby other government agencies would run the Education programs under a contract with the Education Dept. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the changes.
#Congress #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools
McMahon has acknowledged that only #Congress can eliminate the dept but vowed to do everything in her power to dismantle it from within.
An #Education Dept spox did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Supporters of the dept say that the agency is effective in coordinating multiple aspects of education in one place & keeping priorities important to #students, #parents & #schools high on the federal agenda.
#Trump #law #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools
WTF do they think is going to happen to #schools?
#Trump admin to announce dismantling of much of #Education Dept
The Education Dept plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal depts, an unprecedented & unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by #Congress to ensure all Americans have #EqualAccess to educational #opportunity & better coordinate federal programs.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools
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Any idea from under which ideological headstone the subverters of public schools crept back into daylight?
"[T]o our advancement in all that has marked our progress in the past century, I suggest for your earnest consideration, and most earnestly recommend it, that a constitutional amendment be submitted to the legislatures of the several States for ratification, making it the duty of each of the several States to establish and forever maintain free public schools adequate to the education of all the children in the rudimentary branches within their respective limits, irrespective of sex, color, birthplace, or religions..."
— U.S. Army General & 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant —
#PublicSchools #USPol #USPolitics #Trump #HeritageFoundation #Subversion #Insurrection #TrumpInsurrection #Dixiecans #GOP
He’d already decided that his daughter would not participate when, to his relief, the #Tulsa #PublicSchools, a district that is majority #Black & #Latino, & several other #Oklahoma #school districts announced that they would not comply with the dictate. For that, they now face a state #investigation for failing to commemorate the activist who Walters said was a champion of free speech, civil debate & conservative & Christian values.
“It’s time for a State Superintendent of Public Instruction who will actually focus on quality instruction in our #PublicSchools,” Drummond, a Republican & candidate for governor in 2026, said.
Walters, a former teacher, was elected to the superintendent’s job. He had served as Oklahoma Secretary of #Education from September 2020 to April 2023. He was appointed to that position by Governor #KevinStitt.
Ever since then, “we have witnessed a stream of never-ending scandal & political drama,” #Oklahoma Attorney General Genter Drummond said in a statement.
Walters, 40, said Wednesday night on FauxNews that he is stepping down as state superintendent of public instruction to become the CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a nonprofit that says it assists educators “in their mission to develop free, moral, & upright American citizens.”
“We’re going to destroy the #TeachersUnions,” Walters said on Fox. “We have seen the #teachers #unions use money & power to corrupt our schools, to undermine our #schools.”