Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and

“School choice” is choice for the affluent. “Parent empowerment” is empowerment for the few. “Market competition” is control of the rich. Euphemisms for vouchers are lies. Truth? Your taxes for their religion. Tax benefit for well-to-do. Wealth transfer from poor to rich.

Questions nobody has answered … If public schools are “failing” and private schools are “successful” then why don’t they modify public school requirements to match private schools? No STAAR No financial reporting No accountability system No SPED compliance

Short version again st HB 900 in today’s Austin America-Statesman @aasviewpoints @TXLA @PENamerica @OIF

If German kids are strong enough to learn about the Holocaust — then American students should be strong enough to learn about slavery and the Native American genocide.

Last night, around 11 pm, I was taking a mind clearing walk around Stanford’s campus and witnessed a white police officer draw a gun on a young Black man. 1/11

We can’t rely on the grid to hold up when it gets cold. We can’t rely on the grid to hold up when it gets hot. We can’t rely on Greg Abbott to change this. It’s time to vote him out and fix the grid.

Conservative Christians are fully enraged at #studentloanforgiveness, missing the irony that their entire professed religion is based on the idea of a cancelled debt. Way to lose the plot, kids.

This is absolutely ridiculous @BNBuzz you all need to do better, we ALL deserve representation & to see ourselves in the shelves; you just made that nearly impossible in your stores

EDUCATORS and LIBRARIANS! Want to greet your new students with new books?! I’ve got about 120 elementary and Middle Grade books to give away—half here, half on Instagram. To enter to win half here: follow me and RT this tweet. Bonus entry: tag a pal who may want to enter too!

To move our education system forward, let's start with uplifting and respecting our teachers. #PayTeachersMore #RespectTeachers

To address the teacher shortage issue, we must address the teacher respect issue in our country. We must stop normalizing providing teachers with inadequate resources to be successful.

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

These are elementary school children who woke up this morning. Who ate their favorite cereal. Who tied their shoes in double knots. Who laughed with friends on the bus. Now more than a dozen are dead. This isn’t normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. It can’t keep being this way

Ensuring every person in TX has access to high-quality sexual & reproductive healthcare https://t.co/MkRPUB4MF5 get your free repro. healthcare kit if you’ve decided you don’t want to be a mother or just aren’t ready to be one yet. #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

Banning books is a slippery slope, as this year has shown. Where does it stop? #FReadom and our very democracy rely on the exchange of ideas. We celebrate authors who tell stories in all their different perspectives.

HAPPY #SCHOOLLIBRARYMONTH! Today is #NationalSchoolLibrarianDay! 🎉 To celebrate, each week for the month, we will have a winner chosen to receive a librarian care package! To enter this week; like, RT, and comment your school and your fave thing about being a school librarian!