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Literacy is a moral imperative! 📚 public school Special Ed teacher + Literacy Coordinator, BX @NYWFP @UptownBronxDSA prev. Comms @KhaleelAnderson! Views mine
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God help us and hear our prayers. 116th and Amsterdam is surreal right now
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This is infuriating! Does @USC not recognize the morbid irony of offering a minor in resistance to genocide and then not allowing the schools valedictorian, who studied this, who has worked hard to earn that moment, to speak during an ongoing genocide? We've really seen it ALL.
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@directedbyrian @USC WOW this is absolutely shameful. To silence a student studying resistance to genocide and has worked hard to be valedictorian, to stop her from speaking out, this is beyond sad.
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An organizer at the action at Grand Central tonight said that action is the antidote to despair and I want to lift up everyone lead organizing, leading civil disobedience, planning actions, disrupting the status quo during this crisis and inspiring others to walk alongside.
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Want to follow up on this and share that I too have been BLOCKED by my Congressmember @RitchieTorres
Congressmember @RitchieTorres I am one of your constituents and urge you to demand a ceasefire. This is genocide. We’re making our voices heard on Fordham Road.
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I’ve never seen this many police in my life.
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Joined a Palestine solidarity action at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Tremendously inspired by the leaders standing against genocide and shutting it all down #freepalestine
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Congressmember @RitchieTorres I am one of your constituents and urge you to demand a ceasefire. This is genocide. We’re making our voices heard on Fordham Road.
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This campaign is BOLD — so glad to be part of today’s kick-off!
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How is it that when NY state has underfunded public schools it takes lawsuits + multiple years of organizing for the state to fully fund our schools (+ the fight continues). But when Gov. Hochul calls for bag checks/the National Guard to be in the subway they appear hours later.
New: Gov. Hochul announces that she is deploying 750 National Guard members into the NYC subways to conduct bag checks, in addition to another 250 law enforcement members. She is also proposing a bill to ban people convicted of a violent crime on the subway from public transit.
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@CoriBush The First! And not the last! Congratulations and thank you so much for your leadership!!!!!!!!.
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As a B/UM DSA member and teacher in the Bronx, I’ve been inspired by Congressman Bowman’s leadership for years. And I’ll be voting yes on DSA endorsing him!. Why? I’m proud to share a DSA case for Bowman written by a fellow B/UM DSA member 🧵
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I VOTED! 🗳️ For possibly the first Jamaican-Indian Black American woman president of the United States on the @NYWFP line #voteWFP, for Congresswoman @AOC and voted yes on #Prop1 and no on 2-6! #NoPowerGrabNYC #ArmsEmbargoNow
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FEEL FREE TO SHARE: 📣 I’ve worked to compile a 22 page (and counting!) doc of resources connected to high school reading/science of reading in secondary spaces from the group chat I’m part of here on Twitter!
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It was an honor to speak at today’s rally! We’re standing up together to make it clear that we reject that our organizing and movement building will win. Tuesday must be a referendum on AIPAC and other big money groups targeting progressive leaders in NY + around the country.
Billionaires can’t buy our elections.
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Today!!!! I’m inspired, I’m elated, I wasn’t ready! I sat down at my desk at school for prep time, checked my phone, *audibly* gasped and announced to the teacher and students there (literally as calmly as I could):
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We MUST vote Congressmember Torres OUT.
I am beyond embarrassed that my rep in congress, @RitchieTorres @RepRitchie voted to censure @RashidaTlaib @RepRashida and his continuous distortion of any criticism of Israel's genocide of innocent Palestinians as antisemitic. We must vote Ritchie OUT.
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I’m honored to have had the opportunity to share why I’m so excited to vote for Congresswoman @AOC as a teacher, @nycDSA member and Bronx resident. The Congresswoman is a fighter for the Bronx + a student of the Bronx, knowledgeable about its past as she works to forge its future.
We deserve high-quality early childhood education for all families, tuition-free public college for all students, and thriving post-graduate careers without the burden of student debt. We can win it when we fight for each other. Vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on June 25th.
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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and should NOT be addressing Congress while committing a genocide of the Palestinian people
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@heymrsbond I wonder if there will ever be a successful reimagining and reform of the public schools nationwide. I feel like there's a lot of promise in both reading instruction reform + super relevant and authentic project-based learning, but 🙃 I just don't know.
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@chrissyteigen !!!!! And that’s your husband and what in the world is wrong with celebrating this attribute.
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I keep seeing SO many positive things about the book “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” — anyone have any experience with this book?
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I recently finished listening to the entirety of @ehanford's #SoldAStory and feel a lot of gratitude to be beginning my teaching career at the same time as this work is in the world. Truly some of the most consequential reporting of our time. 🧵.
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WOW @Tinashe was AMAZING tonight at Warsaw!!!! Her voice! Her stage presence! The incredible setlist!!! Her work is FOUNDATIONAL to today’s future R&B sound!
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Every single @HERMusicx song I hear is absolutely perfect. An R&B 10/10. I think of a technically perfect gymnastics routine
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I’m laughing I’m sorry. “Systematic phonics instruction is essential. That is a settled issue.” Can the professors that signed this letter confirm that phonics instruction is even taught at their university.
58 literacy greats signed this important letter. please give it a read. #tcrwp #literacymatters.
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I’ve started my work as a high school Literacy Coordinator in the Bronx (🙅🏾♀️!) and am super, *super* interested in Structured Literacy/SoR for older students. I’ve got some plans but still ? around: engagement. I know it’s make or break. This is something I want to tweet ab more.
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SO great to knock on doors in Harlem today and talk to fellow New Yorkers about what we can do to #TaxtheRich and fund the NY we deserve 💰
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Starbucks just went from Selfish by @pnbrock to Yo (Excuse Me Miss) by @chrisbrown - I don’t have words for the vibes right now.
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Every student should have access to an education that ensures they are literate, learning about our world, its history, its inequalities. Then practicing critical thinking + relevant skills so they’re meeting the urgent demand for problem solving + creativity + reform *today*.
Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.
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Have been stuffing letters at the DSA office this evening! 200 letters telling legislators to #TaxtheRich ✉️!!!
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@zaynah237_ @rachsyme I WAS JUST THINKING THIS ALBUM WOW I was just about to respond with this. Why am I tearing up.
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As so many are, deeply devastated by the results of the election. I hoped Kamala would win. Hearing @AOC’s tremendous IG live tonight, reflecting on coalitions, political ed, community. I think my Congresswoman should consider a Presidential run in 2028 and we start building now.
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Here’s a recording of my testimony at today’s hearing. I talked about how the new NYC Reads initiative, which I think is a great DOE initiative aligned w/ the science of reading, could stop completely with the continuation of mayoral control (like so many initiatives before) +
I’m so thankful to have had the opportunity to join fellow speakers in the Bronx this evening nearly *unanimously* against mayoral control. More hearings ahead, the next is in Queens on Dec 18th:
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This is SO great. This is just the God honest truth that we all should sit with and think about. And to see Fordham Road featured I just appreciate it tremendously.
Why did so many working class New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump last week — and even more not vote at all? . I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out.
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We’ve got the people power!!! Join us for this evening’s @nycDSA phone bank for Rep. @JamaalBowmanNY. 6 PM! 📞👇🏾
JAMAAL BOWMAN, AIPAC’s worst nightmare, joins NYC-DSA phone bankers THIS Sunday 6/9!! With only 8⃣days until early voting, we need to keep cranking it up. Palestine is on the Ballot! Can you team up with @JamaalBowmanNY & crush AIPAC this Sunday?. 📞
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Just leaving this evening's @nycDSA phonebank for @JamaalBowmanNY and the energy was so so powerful, we made over 20,000 CALLS! 📞. Who's ready to double that number and join me next Sunday, same time? Let's go!
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Inspiring to stand alongside so many marching on the @DemConvention this week. Let’s fund schools, not weapons!
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Making calls now for @JamaalBowmanNY alongside so many people!!!! 📞 We *reject* AIPAC, we *reject* MAGA money, we *reject* blatantly racist and false ad buys. We're fighting to KEEP Rep. Bowman, a – pro-ceasefire, pro-working class power leader – representing NY-16 in Congress!.
I'm attending a @nycdsa event: Phone Bank for Jamaal Bowman. RSVP here:
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Have been knocking on doors today for @Soto4NY and @RepBowman! Continuing to share literacy resources at the doors!!!! 📚
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I’m so thankful to have had the opportunity to join fellow speakers in the Bronx this evening nearly *unanimously* against mayoral control. More hearings ahead, the next is in Queens on Dec 18th:
.@christinakcover putting in the work to talk about how Mayoral control impacts reading instruction for our children! . Thank you! . #endmayoralcontrol
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AIPAC is spending *inconceivable* amounts of money on this race. Only further highlights Rep @JamaalBowmanNY commitment to working class people + will be the biggest check on dark money when he WINS.
Missed this yesterday. AIPAC just dropped more than 2 million against Bowman in addition to the 10m+ they’ve already spent.
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@mo87mo87 Love love love the regarding of Twitter as a public utility because it is absolutely true, saw another tweet about this some time ago.
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@DanWuori Dr. Wuori, it’s a joy to follow you, I’ve absolutely loved and have been referencing your tweets.
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@AP True leadership, character and love for our country. Thank you and God bless you @RepAndyKimNJ.
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@raptalksk This is so wonderful, beautiful and cool to see their awe and respect, especially definitely hearing MF DOOM’s clear influence on their music though I’m not as well-versed in his sound.
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Congratulations and thank you for your tremendous leadership Senator Gonzalez @Gonzalez4NY!!!!!
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Honoring Dr. King's legacy today could look like universal basic income.
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There was amazing energy at this past Sunday’s rally for @AOC!.
AOC will always be a fighter for NY-14. A fighter who has never taken a dollar of lobbyist money. A fighter for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a living wage, tuition-free public college, and affordable housing. Vote on June 25th. Vote early from June 15th to June 23rd.
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We need to end Mayoral Control immediately???????.
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@AOC This is so wonderful Congresswoman!!! Your leadership and positive impact in our world is a dream and a vision of teachers you’ve had along the way.
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Uplifted by Assembly Member @ZohranKMamdani’s EXCEPTIONAL leadership. So many calling for a ceasefire are being dragged out of rooms, drowned out by yells. AM Mamdani, as an elected official and invited speaker, calls for ceasefire here — and they dare not interrupt/take pause.
I was invited to an event last night where @RepJeffries was the chief guest. I was given the speaking slot immediately before him. This is how I ended my remarks. Ceasefire now.
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Nearly my entire timeline is genocide. People urgently fundraising. Seeing posts of men and children lined up and facing death. Horrific and gruesome videos of children injured and killed. Personally I don’t think I can vote for Kamala Harris as this is the Biden-Harris admin.
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Today is my last day as Communications Coordinator in the office of @AMAndersonAD31. I am leaving to continue graduate school @TeachersCollege and begin my teacher career this fall. It has been an honor to serve Assembly District 31 and work alongside so many inspiring leaders!
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Today was my first day as a Special Education teacher!.
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My Mom voted uncommitted in New Jersey! 🗳️.
4 minutes after polls close in New Jersey and ‘uncommitted’ has more than 1500 votes.
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So excited to be here at @NYWFP’s Bronx Chapter Launch!!! Inspired by the leaders here and encouraged to learn about the expansion of a growing movement right in my neighborhood.
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I’m so thankful for and inspired by Jonathan Soto’s leadership and the leadership of the entire @Soto4NY team! As I reflect on last night’s primaries, have thoughts to share (my own). First, a friend put it well—Team Soto made a positive, lasting impact!
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My heart’s so heavy. I think that all of America’s teachers and students should pick a day soon and, from that day forward, refuse to return to school buildings until gun control legislation moves along. We’ve got to pause our world and refuse to move another step forward.
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In these horrible past few months with increased witness to affronts to humanity in Palestine, Congressmember Bowman has been a steadfast pro-Palestinian leader in D.C. Him winning re-election despite record AIPAC spending will show that Palestinian solidarity can + must win.
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@mediatkd1 @TeamKanyeDaily @takashipom Ah this is so emotional and awesome to see — I immediately think of how Kanye has always had such a huge connection to LV since the start of his career so to see his best friend be recognized in this space/at this level!!!! What a journey for them!.
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I've decided to accept a new high school Special Education teaching position with a literacy focus, providing me with the opportunity to contribute to a school-wide evidence-based HS literacy effort. Looking forward but tough to say goodbye to my last school + its great community.
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Just arrived in Chicago! And for Congresswoman @AOC to be prime time for the start of the convention tonight!!!!! Oh we’ll be watching from somewhere in town for sure, we’re READY
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I often think about the cognitive dissonance it must take to be Mayor and perpetually cut from school + social services then send out press releases like everything is okay. I’m definitely convinced the ~8% could be found elsewhere in the budget??.
New Yorkers confronted @NYCMayor about his budget cuts: why is he cutting ~8% from schools, CUNY, libraries, & social services, while funding NYPD overtime, misconduct, & robot dogs, & Dept. of Corrections abuse & mismanagement? .Eric lied & called us disrespectful. #CareNotCuts
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In my opinion, to truly reform NYC public schools the first thing we need a mayor that is for the end of mayoral control. And has the humility and foresight to work with city and state legislatures to end it.
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Honored to have been appointed to Bronx Community Board 1 (Mott Haven, Melrose, Port Morris)! As a Bronx teacher and resident, greatly appreciate this opportunity and looking forward to serving and learning alongside fellow Board members! @BronxCb1.
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I *have* to tweet again ab how @TheWritingRevol has a positive impact on my life as a first year Special Education teacher. @JudithCHochman + @natwexler have created a method that is accessible, clear, possible to read + implement, connected to free resources, *then* paid ones.
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We need to pass the #BuildPublicRenewables Act! Climate change is here and sadly this past week might have just been a preview. NY can and must build public power. Thankful for the legislative leaders + activists demanding change. @nycDSA @NYCDSA_Ecosoc
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What is going on????????????.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul says genocide is just the natural way people respond to being attacked. “If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I'm sorry my friends, there would be no Canada the next day. That’s a natural reaction.”.
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Sworn in! 🙋🏾♀️ Looking forward to serving my community as part of Bronx Community Board 1!.
Today, @bronxbpgibson officially swore in our new Community Board appointees. We’re thrilled to welcome new members to Community Board 1 and look forward to all the great work we’ll accomplish together this year! . #BronxCB1 #Teamwork #Community #Togetherwegofar #doitforthebx
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This is SO unfortunate for us that Biden is going to lose the election I’m sorry but what . Not even a “I commend the young people for trying to make their voices heard” he’s just like my answer is NO.
Reporter: Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?. Biden: No . Apparently Biden is not swayed by the mass killing of children, international law, or an election as a growing number of Americans are appalled by his policies.
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**I’m back on leading another @Soto4NY phone bank today at 5!!!** We are working to elect the first DSA-endorsed legislator in the Bronx and polls say we’re in the lead. We’re having great discussions throughout the district. Let’s continue moving ahead:
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@nhannahjones So many references I’m only thinking about now reading your thread! This movie is EXCELLENT! I might be reaching- but maybe a critique of America’s history of enslavement, oppression, imperialism, colonialism, leading to the very standing globally that results in the cyberattack?.
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We’ve got to keep talking about the increasing frequency and duration of dangerous heatwaves in the United States and around the world.
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Learned so much today at @RepAOC’s wonderful town hall with @linakhanFTC + community leaders about ongoing work to take on corporate power. A new generation of leadership in NY and D.C. are making it clear — we demand more for working class families. And that’s not radical!
FTC Taking On Corporate Power Livestream - 9/13/24
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Growing up I think I thought if we saw images and videos we are seeing now…the world would stop. The genocide has made an absolute farce of so many people and institutions of “power” and “justice”.
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Beyoncé’s “Heated” is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard it my life. My chest literally burns. It is a fever pitch.
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This just arrived in the mail for me today and it looks great! Just starting to look through, SO much information and also actionable steps for educators and families.
The new edition of @AFTunion's American Educator magazine features a bunch of articles with good info for teachers and parents about how to help kids learn to read.
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America being the wealthiest nation in the history of the world and simultaneously struggling to provide all students with equitable access to literacy/the *best* possible reading instruction is literally difficult to understand.
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The complete failure of our governments and institutions to intervene in this genocide is deeply, deeply saddening and disillusioning. I’m encouraged by people and orgs standing for what’s right and I’m going to keep doing what I can, I’ll join actions, I’ll teach, I’ll amplify.
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Not only do we need to #RestoretheCuts immediately, we need to increase funding even *more* for more evidence-based reading programs and training based on the science of reading and including systematic phonics instruction.
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One example of why we need to end mayoral control is: the Mayor is reportedly approving *more* DOE budget cuts (how is this even possible) which is completely antithetical to his administration’s (critical) efforts to improve literacy.
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“American Fiction” was SO phenomenal. Absolutely beautiful
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