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A Shen parent posted this to Facebook & it’s gotten over 200 shares. It’s good to see suburban parents speaking up about inequality #fundourschools #Albany 
Some people are starting to understand the choices their privilege allows them to make, like where to live, have real downstream effects....
My biggest fear is that our urban & rural districts never recover. Once a social program is dismantled, that’s it. People move on, we decide it’s too expensive & too hard to rebuild. Albany has spent years building services & programs that had were getting results.
Placing students in deplorable learning environments pushes them out of the classroom and into the school-to-prison pipeline. Schools in communities of color must be environments that foster learning.
#EqualEdWeek
#EqualEdWeek
In Baltimore, for example, prior to the #COVID19 pandemic, students were subjected to schools in disrepair with contaminated water. Some teachers even had to provide their classrooms with heaters in the winter to manage conditions.
Baltimore City students have missed almost 1.5 million hrs of class time due to these conditions. That is why LDF & @ACLU_MD demand Maryland uphold its constitutional responsibility to provide adequate learning environments.
#FundourSchools
#FundourSchools
The Maryland House of Delegates just passed a bill that adjusts the state's formula for funding schools. While the bill's funding increase is a commendable first step, Baltimore City Schools is facing a decades-long deprivation of adequate school funding. naacpldf.org/press-release/…
Baltimore City Schools are underfunded by an estimate of $342 million, forcing students to attend class in facilities that lack heat, lack air conditioning, and cannot meet their basic needs. #FundOurSchools
Students in Baltimore City deserve a properly funded education. If the new formula does not begin by completely closing the adequacy gap, students in Baltimore City Schools will continue to receive a constitutionally inadequate education. bit.ly/3aXKgGT
Not only do #Baltimore students deserve more, it is Maryland's constitutional obligation to give them more.
Until they do, students will continue to suffer the consequences of the state's neglect. #FundOurSchools
Until they do, students will continue to suffer the consequences of the state's neglect. #FundOurSchools
"The state rates only 17 percent of the [Baltimore] city’s schools as in good or excellent condition, compared with more than 90 percent in Howard County and more than 60 percent in Baltimore County." (@baltimoresun )
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@baltimoresun The Kirwan Commission has submitted its recommendations for legislation to address support for MD schools, but it is not enough. If implemented it would still take almost a decade to fill the annual funding gap facing City schools. baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/…
[THREAD] They say that hindsight vision is 20/20. That's why I'm so troubled by SJ75 in the #valeg.
A history lesson + a call to action...
#vagov #vapol #fundourschools
A history lesson + a call to action...
#vagov #vapol #fundourschools
First, I'm the Executive Director of @VirginiaExcels. VE is designed to develop and amplify the voices of students and families from historically underrepresented communities to promote educational equity.
As I've shared with all of the participants in our programs, "I've failed you if you only parrot things that I think & I hate failing."
Daily, I ask myself multiple times, "is this best for kids? If not, how can we make it better?"
Daily, I ask myself multiple times, "is this best for kids? If not, how can we make it better?"
