Erika Donalds
@ErikaDonalds
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Saved by Grace. @ByronDonalds Wife. #BoyMom. Entrepreneur. Champion for Education Freedom & Economic Opportunity. Chair: @A1Policy Edu @YourEdFreedom @OptimaEd.
Naples, Florida
Joined April 2009
Love me or hate me, you will never wonder where I stand.
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Venezuelan schools: - Chronic absenteeism - Empty schools - 65% of students behind in basic skills Chicago Public Schools: - Chronic absenteeism - Empty schools - 65% of students reading below grade level It's no wonder the Chicago Teachers Union is defending Maduro.
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Take a few minutes to hear from our Founder, @ErikaDonalds, as she recaps year 2025, for both personal and the Foundation. https://t.co/KmdT68Vtcs
ICYMI: I shared my 2025 year-end letter - full of gratitude, big wins for education freedom, and what I’m excited about heading into 2026. Read it here: https://t.co/G8AKC6E1iO
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Stepping into 2026 like…
Byron Donalds raised $45 million over course of 2025 to run for Governor; added $13M in Q4 https://t.co/HxrVUHE2u4
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In Venezuela, children attend public school just twice a week, and teachers earn $1 per day. A direct result of Maduro’s narco-socialist regime. Thanks to our brave American armed forces, this abomination will come to an end, and bring education opportunity to Venezuela’s
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Maduro used foreign terrorist organizations to traffic deadly drugs and violence into our country, killing countless Americans. He was one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security. This morning, he was captured. This is “Peace Through
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98% of teachers’ union donations go to Democrats, who then oppose revoking the union’s federal charter. Somali Americans vote blue, so Democrats slam investigations into childcare fraud. NPR’s editorial staff is left-wing, so Democrats insist taxpayers keep funding it. Notice
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ICYMI: I shared my 2025 year-end letter - full of gratitude, big wins for education freedom, and what I’m excited about heading into 2026. Read it here: https://t.co/G8AKC6E1iO
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.@ErikaDonalds: Despite all the action taken by @EdSecMcMahon to disassemble the Department of Education, Congress will need to take the final steps to completely eliminate the agency.
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.@ErikaDonalds: We're calling on all governors to opt in to the federal tax credit scholarship program so that parents have more choice with their child's education. "It's the largest expansion of school choice in America's history"
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Ending 2025 with a grateful heart. God has been faithful, and we have so much to celebrate - personally and professionally. We’re advancing education freedom through policy and practice, changing families’ lives for the better every day. Read my year-end letter on my new
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.@ErikaDonalds, a founder of multiple charter schools, explains why teachers unions should not exist and which reforms have weakened them the most. "They serve the adults first."
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Rep. Byron Donalds' wife @ErikaDonalds explains why eliminating the Department of Education would actually provide MORE money to schools across the country:
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This should be a bar chart.📊
With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://t.co/AXzuUgptTJ
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In 2011, @rweingarten demanded that $20+ million be sent to Somalia. Why was the President of the AMERICAN Federation of Teachers focused on Somalia?? With the teachers union, it’s NEVER been about American children!
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@Tommy_USA 💯!!! Me, to my fellow school board members: “Can we have staff investigate why we spend 27% more on building maintenance than other similar districts?” Fellow school board members (also former union): “No, we will not waste staff time with such requests.” Many such cases.
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“How do we keep students safe while using AI in the classroom?” 🚸💻 @Elaine_Parker and @ErikaDonalds break it down: schools are building AI safeguards that protect student data, filter harmful content, and keep learning tools inside a secure “walled garden.” Rather than open
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