BATvocate Dragon
@Larry_Proffitt
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Educator, Education Advocate, and Grassroots Organizer who stands up and out for his students, their parents and educators!
Joined June 2012
He even kicked PATs one year.
I don’t brag on @RealLife_J_LO much, but here we go. He’s being inducted into the Cosby football hall of fame on Friday. He’s the best football player I’ve ever seen at Cosby high school. Offense, Defense, Special teams he would do it all. Well deserved brother! @jnichols_2121
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Michigan evangelical church worship leader & christian recording artist, Zachary Radcliff, has been arrested for child sex crimes.
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.@JoeNBC: “It drives me crazy when I hear politicians talking about how bad things are in America. We've got a $26 trillion GDP. China, which was supposed to overtake us 10 years ago, they're stuck at $17-18 trillion…Texas has a bigger GDP than Russia”
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The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.
truthout.org
The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.
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Early voting begins today. Vote like your neighborhood public school depends on it! Vote an anti-voucher #txlege House: @LizforTexas @averieforall @BirkholzforTX @Jennifer4Texas @laurelswift @kristianfortx Vote #txed!
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🚨 🚨 With Trump scheduled to speak tonight, let me re-introduce you to Ohio’s Ed O’Neill, who shares a perfect story about Donald Trump. As he asks: “What kind of a man would do that?” And then answers his own question. WATCH and enjoy:
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The whole voucher project is corrupt! *House members betraying their God-sworn #txed oath! *Rich private schools subsidized with poor kids’ public dollars! *@GregAbbott_TX whoring after billionaires to buy #txlege members! God forgive us! No vouchers in Texas! Ever!
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"Christian Nationalism is forcing schools to post the Ten Commandments while nominating a candidate for president who has violated almost all of them."
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Don't let anyone tell you that being a dictator on day one would be the end. Day one would be just be the beginning of the end of our democracy. He'd never give up power. #TBATs #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy #Debate #VoteBlueToProtectWomenRights #VoteBlueAllDownTheBallot #Roevember
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Leading, Teaching & Learning in Dickson County! We invite you to join our team! @DCS_TN @DCSTNspePops
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Jeff Bryant: For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education https://t.co/Gmx9kN7kSy
#Privatization
networkforpubliceducation.org
For many charter school supporters, the movement has nothing to do with education, and everything to do with investment opportunities. Jeff Bryant reports for the Independent Media Institute. Ever...
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The voucher idea first took root in the 1950s to avoid Brown v Board. But by 1990 had become an obsession for the religious Right—and the Kochs. The Privateers shows how the voucher lobby sold a story to legislators, the press, and to the courts. https://t.co/UlmkDQeHkN
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Churches in Arizona are opening schools with expectation that the state will fund them via private school vouchers. This is exactly what Betsy DeVos and other billionaires have been fueling through political contributions to right-wing politicians.
cnn.com
As universal school voucher programs are sweeping the US, Arizona has led the way in diverting public funding to private schools.
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CNN did not pull any punches with this story. Hope folks read it, discuss it, and join the fight to defeat billionaires who are intent on destroying public (secular) public schools. https://t.co/ZPBlDmF0zW
cnn.com
As universal school voucher programs are sweeping the US, Arizona has led the way in diverting public funding to private schools.
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Respect Public Schools: Public Schools Are Not Mission Fields - The push for Christian indoctrination in public school is an abomination. https://t.co/4M0ojtKnze
#EducationMatters
networkforpubliceducation.org
As Lifewise pushes similar laws for Ohio and casts their eyes on other states, the website Respect Public Schools offers some warning and explanation of how the group works. LifeWise Academy is a...
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L.A. school district approves strict student cellphone ban - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com
Student cellphone use at L.A. public schools will be banned starting in January to improve learning, limit distractions and decrease cyberbullying.
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Four civil liberties groups will sue the state of Louisiana after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law Wednesday that calls for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms.
lailluminator.com
Four civil liberties groups will sue the state of Louisiana after Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law that calls for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms.
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Parents & teachers unite to help children become great learners & build DEMOCRATIC public schools. Underfunded schools and demeaning teacher professionalism end public education, creating corporate for-profit schools. https://t.co/srtVV0dSTl
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States Are Spending Billions on Vouchers, Mostly for Religious Schools https://t.co/3BAsoRDH6m via @dianeravitch
dianeravitch.net
In the past few years, Republican-controlled states have established or expanded expensive voucher programs. The so-called “wall of separation” between church and state—a phrase coined by Thomas Je…
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