Erica L. Green
Translating education policy to real life for D.C buro. B-More born. bred. Lover. Fighter. Mother. Writer. [email protected]
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New Campus Sexual Misconduct Rules Will Tackle Dating Violence
Erica L. Green - Nytimes.com 6d 5 tweets
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s contentious regulations on sexual misconduct at schools will cement domestic and dating violence and stalking as forms of gender discrimination.
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Erica L. Green Lauren McCluskey would have turned 23 today. Jaelynn Willey would be graduating high school this year. They were both shot and killed at school because staff ignored reports of dating violence. Here’s how pending Title IX rules could help others 4d
Trump’s Budget to Request More Wall Funding Amid Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Alan Rappeport, Margot Sanger-Katz - Nytimes.com 7d 5 tweets
The president’s final budget proposal of his first term will offer a blueprint for priorities if he wins re-election.
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Erica L. Green “The president’s plan includes $4.4 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade, with about $2 trillion coming from changes to safety net programs and student loan initiatives.” (It would also cut Education Dept by about 8% to $66.6 billion). 6d
Education Department Whistleblower Forced Out After Exposing Push Against Trans Athletes
Rebecca Klein - HuffPost 17d 4 tweets
Dwayne Bensing says he faced retaliation for reporting the department’s fast-track treatment of a case affecting transgender students.
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Erica L. Green “He found internal communication indicating attorneys were unsure of the legal theory for taking up the investigation...The emails also indicated that the head of the civil rights office, Ken Marcus, pressured employees to expedite the investigation.” 16d
They Shared a Bunk Bed Growing Up. Both Were Killed by the Police.
Joseph Goldstein - Nytimes.com 23d 4 tweets
How the shooting of one brother paved the way for the other’s death, seven years later.
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Erica L. Green “Stories of young black men in fatal encounters with police have become a painfully routine part of the news cycle. But for a family to lose two sons to police shootings is all but unheard-of in 21st century America.” A Mother’s Agony 23d
Religious School Choice Case May Yield Landmark Supreme Court Decision
Erica L. Green - Nytimes.com 26d 1 tweets
With oral arguments coming on Wednesday, both sides of the long-running fight over vouchers for religious schools are preparing for a watershed moment for public education.
As More Mothers Fill Prisons, Children Suffer ‘A Primal Wound’
Dan Levin - Nytimes.com 50d 8 tweets
At least 5 million children have had a parent behind bars. The toll is exacting, from unstable homes to lasting effects on their well-being.
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Erica L. Green “To have a mother in prison is like a primal wound.” I’ve struggled my whole life to describe it. This. This is exactly what it’s like. 50d
2019 Marylander of the Year
The Baltimore Sun - baltimoresun.com 50d 1 tweets
For his many efforts to make us “better than this,” Elijah Cummings is the 2019 Marylander of the year.
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Erica L. Green “Though he couldn’t have known the angels would come for him before the year was out, Elijah Cummings certainly must have been secure in the knowledge that he did all he could to stand up for his beliefs. We are.” 50d
After Newtown, mourning parents enter into the lonely quiet
Eli Saslow - Washington Post 795d 12 tweets
After the shooting and the politics, the Barden family suffers all that’s been lost since the day their son died.
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Erica L. Green There is not a year that goes by that I don’t think of this incredible and heartbreaking story. 64d
DeVos Defends Restricting Debt Relief for Bilked Students
Erica L. Green - Nytimes.com 66d 1 tweets
The education secretary said “many students” got “a valuable education” from for-profit colleges as officials planned a round of notifications to applicants for full relief, 95 percent denials.
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Erica L. Green I covered a hearing today, and it made me desperately miss school board meetings. "DeVos Defends Department's Approach to Loan Forgiveness for Bilked Students:" 66d
Trump Order’s Wider Definition of Judaism Aids Crackdown on Colleges
Erica L. Green - Nytimes.com 67d 4 tweets
A new executive order from President Trump is likely to further a policy that was already playing out in the Education Department’s battles against bias on college campuses.
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Erica L. Green The president is scheduled to sign an executive order bolstering the case for categorizing Judaism as a "national origin," to investigate anti-Semitism on college campuses. The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has been doing that for months 67d
Black Scholars Are Not ‘Rare Creatures’
Nytimes.com 75d 19 tweets
When Purdue’s president said this, I had to respond because this myth is so pervasive.
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Erica L. Green “The idea that scholars of color are rare is a damaging fiction. Yet it’s pervasive in academia, causing untold damage.” Note: Also the reason that the same five “experts” get quoted in stories over and over again Black Scholars Are Not ‘Rare Creatures’ 74d
A ‘rodent infested’ Baltimore embraces its ‘not bad for a running back’ quarterback
The Baltimore Sun - baltimoresun.com 76d 1 tweets
The NFL"s most exciting star is the unlikely success story that Baltimore can not only cheer, its residents might just copy.
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Erica L. Green A ‘rodent infested’ Baltimore embraces its ‘not bad for a running back’ quarterback 76d
Students Fainting From Hunger in Venezuela’s Failing School System
Nytimes.com 79d 10 tweets
Children ask teachers at the entrance of one struggling primary school if there is food before deciding whether to come in.
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Erica L. Green “In the country’s second biggest city, a sign outside a dilapidated school without electricity recently read: “Please come to classes, even without uniforms.” The children ask teachers if there is food before deciding whether to come in.” via 78d
Broken Promises and Debt Pile Up as Loan Forgiveness Goes Astray
Erica L. Green, Stacy Cowley - Nytimes.com 80d 9 tweets
A federal loan forgiveness program made a promise to students: Stick with your vital but low-wage professions and your debts will be wiped clean. Then they weren’t.
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Erica L. Green “I am not the one that asked for this program. I didn’t dream it up. Someone promised it. All I did was believe it was real.” Broken Promises and Debt Pile Up as Loan Forgiveness Goes Astray - The New York Times 79d
Pete Buttigieg Called Me. Here's What Happened
The Root 82d 25 tweets
The first thing you should know about me is that I absolutely hate talking on the phone.
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Erica L. Green Michael Harriot: Pete Buttigieg Called Me 82d
Maryland Rep. Cummings’ daughters endorse his longtime staffer for his congressional seat
The Baltimore Sun - baltimoresun.com 82d 1 tweets
Three of the most high-profile people seeking to succeed Cummings also eulogized him at his funeral: Spikes; Cummings’ wife, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings; and former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume.
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Erica L. Green 👀 Maryland Rep. Cummings’ daughters endorse his longtime staffer for his congressional seat (his widow is running) 82d
Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools
Erica L. Green - Nytimes.com 83d 15 tweets
The front-runners for the presidential nomination are moving away from the charter school movement, and black and Latino families ask why their concerns are lost.
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Erica L. Green “What would be happening in a fair society is we would be asked for our opinions, rather than having candidates saying, ‘I have a plan for you — to shepherd you into the very schools that you left on purpose.”’ 83d
Howard school board gives final OK to redistricting plan that addresses overcrowding, balances poverty levels
The Baltimore Sun - baltimoresun.com 87d 2 tweets
After nine packed work sessions, several protests, thousands of pages of comments, and scrutiny of neighborhoods and school maps, the Howard County Board of Education voted Thursday to move about 5,400 students to new schools for the 2020-21...
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Erica L. Green Despite a death threat against the superintendent, racist attacks on black families and months of community turmoil, this happened. "Howard school board gives final OK to redistricting plan that addresses overcrowding, balances poverty levels:" 87d
114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless. These Two Let Us Into Their Lives.
Nytimes.com 90d 25 tweets
The number of homeless students has swelled by 70 percent over the past decade. For Darnell and Sandy, school is the only stable place they know.
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Erica L. Green 114,000 Students in N.Y.C. Are Homeless. These Two Let Us Into Their Lives. - The New York Times 🙏🏾 ⁦⁩ 90d
In Flint, Mich., Lead Crisis Moves From Homes to Schools
Erica L. Green - Nytimes.com 102d 27 tweets
The city’s schools, stretched even before the lead crisis, are struggling with demands for individualized education programs and behavioral interventions for children with high lead exposure.
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Erica L. Green “Everyone thinks we’re fine, but we’re not fine. Our kids aren’t fine and they’re never gonna be. Please tell people we’re not fine.” -Nakiya Wakes, Flint In Wake of Flint Water Crisis, Children Suffer in Class 95d