public education super fan | kc tenants board member

Replying to @rivertolake
they gotta get to work andrew
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Replying to @rivertolake
coffee shops need to open at 6!!!!!!
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Kathleen Pointer retweeted
School is back in session – and every student deserves to feel safe in their classroom. As a school board member, you have the power to keep ICE off campus and away from student data. Our No Secret Police toolkit shows how. Link in bio. 📚
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Kathleen Pointer retweeted
On Sept. 10, The Kansas City Star's parent company McClatchy laid off six of our union members. These journalists have given their energy and empathy to The Star and its readers, and we want to give back to them. gofundme.com/f/support-laid-…
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Replying to @rivertolake
i belong to the downtown ymca in kc and it is very nice
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On this day 12 years ago, Twitter user 'LuckyLuciano17k' posted a photograph of himself with the caption "You know I had to do it to em".
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tell helm to put this on a marketing poster
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The economics of doing local news has gotten completely wrecked, whole communities are getting left in the dark, and somebody is finally doing something about it. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/c…
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Kathleen Pointer retweeted
From Daniel Dawer and Ruth Kravetz: Nearly 2,000 juniors at 16 high schools in Houston ISD were pulled from Algebra II and placed in remedial math. At some schools, about 70% of juniors were similarly demoted. It wasn't due to poor grades ... texasobserver.org/the-housto…
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AHHHHH!!!!! Can’t wait to meet him :) big hugs to his mom and dad 💛💛
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God is good
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omg!!!!! is he here??
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Replying to @rivertolake
okay fair enough but like at least give me a quick call in the meteor situation
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Replying to @rivertolake
um okay kind of rude i can see this you know
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Kathleen Pointer retweeted
It's Union School season. @TenantFed's organizing training, this year w 809 trainees from 131 cities across 39 states. Reno to Richmond, El Paso to Ann Arbor, tenants joined w properties ID'd, or ready for an assignment. At minimum, this means we organize 26,250 units by Sept :)
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Replying to @rivertolake
Absolutely untrue
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Replying to @rivertolake
tabi’s very patient it’s true
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This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @WHOI, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: piped.video/shorts/DenUjePDd…
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it would be extremely chic if you had an ex wife
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Kathleen Pointer retweeted
LP School Board Members know - school takeovers are about control. As far-right state legislators back abusive preemption to take authority away from local officials, they also use school takeovers to weaken the powers of school boards, community voices, and local democracy.
New: No state has taken over as many public school districts as Texas. Since 2020, the Texas Education Agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts. Four of those came just this spring. At least another 10 are at risk of takeover. propub.li/4e8parw
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Kathleen Pointer retweeted
North Carolina just lost another 12,000 students from public schools through the Opportunity Scholarship voucher program…draining approximately $97.3 million in state headcount-driven funding from public education. Let’s be honest: public school education may not be working for families because it is not being adequately funded. The state calls vouchers “one of the state's biggest educational investments in recent years.” Imagine if we could instead say: “Increasing teacher salaries has been one of the state's biggest educational investments in recent years.” What if that $97.3 million had been invested in: Raising teacher salaries that remain among the lowest in the nation Addressing the more than $13 billion in school facility needs across North Carolina Removing the outdated 13% cap on Exceptional Children funding while Durham Public Schools serves 16.6% EC scholars Removing the 10.8% cap on English Language Learner funding while DPS serves 22.8% multilingual scholars Removing the 4% cap on AIG funding while DPS serves 21.7% academically/intellectually gifted scholars Public schools educate every child who walks through our doors regardless of need, language, disability, or circumstance. Yet we continue to be asked to do more with less while public dollars are redirected away from the very system that serves the overwhelming majority of North Carolina students. If we truly care about student outcomes and their future, we must fully fund public education which is the bedrock of democracy. We are preparing scholars for the future and the future doesn’t look like a private school education. Our public schools are diverse and represents the real world they will be living in. We will all be ancestors one day. Act accordingly. Contact your legislators and have family members and friends across the state to contact theirs. Demand investment in public schools, not abandonment of them. Our scholars deserve better. Our educators deserve better. DPS deserves better. North Carolina deserves better. wral.com/news/education/oppo…
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Kathleen Pointer retweeted
I had the privilege on working through city problems with visionary future leaders of Ms. Hobbs’ ESL class at East High School this morning. We talked affordable housing, homelessness, potholes, immigration, schools, trash, and road diets!
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