Category: Wisdom

• Billions are headed to your state and local schools

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  June 24, 2021

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  School Finance, Wisdom

  Billions are about to flow from the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan to state education agencies and local school districts. Huge increases to Title I are also on the horizon. NOW is the time to be vigilant. Please be sure that communities of color and historically marginalized students in your community benefit. NOW is the time to…

  

• News that would make Grandmas Vasquez Proud

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  May 27, 2021

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  Wisdom

  The first thing I thought about when I heard the news was that mi abuelitas (my grandmothers) Maria Ygnacia Vasquez and Herminia Ovalle Vasquez would be proud hearing this news today. Adapted from Maya Angelou, Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that’s wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I…

  

• Need some advice about a tattoo

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  April 1, 2021

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  Los Chistes, Wisdom

  I need some advice today. I made a bad decision to get a tattoo when I lived in Houston back in 1999. How much would it cost to get my large @walmart tattoo removed?

  

• More than $1 billion for 56 Black charter graduates!?

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  March 25, 2021

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  Wisdom

  I think this table is very self explanatory. Feel free to spread widely. H/t to my source that passed this along. Stop saying these large charter chains are about Black students. Just stop. See also the post NEW: DOES THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NEED SEPARATE CHARTER SCHOOLS? Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this…

  

• ¡Corran la voz!: “Exacerbated Inequalities” Webinar

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  February 21, 2021

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  Wisdom

  ¡Corran la voz! Check out #MASBAwebinar entitled “Exacerbated Inequalities” featuring Host @ProfessorJVH and a panel w/ @CarolBurris of @Network4PubEd, #GeorginaPerez of @TXSBOE, @DrDoraESauceda of @BrownsvilleISD & @AnneSung of @HoustonISD