The free and virtual Peralta Equity Conference is happening now: https://sites.google.com/view/peraltaequityconference/home
Session recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6dbv_ZRJJb4rcMym_9YI5jNfvCEQ5Du
The Florida #OER Summit is next month: https://www.flvc.org/oersummit
#EdDev #Equity #Peralta #OnlineTeaching
#Trump admin freezes about $2.3 billion in #funding to #Harvard
The U.S. Department of #Education said on Monday it was freezing about $2.3 billion in federal funds to #HarvardUniversity over the school's decision to fight White House demands, including that it shut down #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs.
#law #extortion #dictatorship #FreeSpeech
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-freezes-about-23-billion-funding-harvard-2025-04-15/
Researchers say that a person’s intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed, so much so that practice alone may not be enough… So if you’re ‘smart’ you have an advantage when it comes to using technology, confirming yet again that tech can be divisive, promoting a divide between higher- and lower-IQ individuals. That’s an ‘access’ issue IMO, that needs to be addressed. Considering a majority of the world’s population has an IQ under 100, this is an equity and equality matter. All individuals, regardless of intelligence quotients, should have access to the benefits offered by technology. #Technology #equity
Source: SciTechDaily https://search.app/wJFD9UsAeUttEu7j6
I wonder what Dr. Lakshmi Chilukuri, professor of molecular biology, provost of 6th College at #UCSD, and mother of Usha Vance thinks of the #fascism. Have any students in her lab lost their visas? Has her research been affected by the #NIH cuts?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-ucla-stanford-among-schools-011815174.html
Also, note the department wesbsite's link to #Equity, #Diversity, #Inclusion
I wonder what Dr. Lakshmi Chilukuri, professor of molecular biology, provost of 6th College at #UCSD, and mother of Usha Vance thinks of the #fascism. Have any students in her lab lost their visas? Has her research been affected by the #NIH cuts?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-ucla-stanford-among-schools-011815174.html
Also, note the department wesbsite's link to #Equity, #Diversity, #Inclusion
We should consider that we are past fixing our global system. For true systemic equality, we may need to burn it to the ground and allow for regrowth.
(Excuse the binary/patriarchal language. It’s a direct quote.)
#SCOTUS allows #Trump officials to freeze #teacher training grants over *#DEI*
A divided #SupremeCourt on Fri cleared the way for the admin to at least temporarily freeze up to $65M in #educational grants designed to address #TeacherShortages, which the govt says fund programs that promote #diversity, #equity & #inclusion [as they should, though the Trump admin’s definition of DEI is humanity].
#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #indoctrination #education #idiocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/supreme-court-trump-teacher-training-grants-dei/
More of this please:
The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/new-york-trump-dei-order.html?smid=url-share
NT Times - #News - Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend Grants to Teachers…The justices let the Trump administration temporarily suspend $65 million in teacher-training grants that the government contends would promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The ruling was an early victory for the administration. #SCOTUS #legal #DEI #Education #Grants #GrantFunding #Racism #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion
#Trump Admin Threatens to Withhold #Funds From #PublicSchools
State #education officials will be required to verify that they have eliminated all programs that promote #diversity, #equity & #inclusion [#DEI] that the administration deems *unlawful* [uncomfortable for #FarRight #bigots] according to a new memo.
#censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #extortion #law #USpol #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/public-school-funding-trump-dei.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=AEB43A0E-0ED5-401C-9960-8E17975F9091
https://nos.nl/l/2561865 The #usa is making demands on #diversity, #equity and #inclusion to #european companies. Let me be very clear: #locaverdi will never comply to such demands. #dei
"There's nothing in this world stronger than a soft heart that refused to harden"
That's beautiful 
(Credit to @colavsdaughter)
Things that are NOT a #choice, in no particular order:
- Being #LGBTQ+
- Being #Disabled / Unable to Work
- Skin Color
- #Economic Circumstances at Birth
- Country of Origin
- Brain Chemistry
Things that ARE a choice:
- #Religion
- #Bigotry
- #Taxation
- #Government Spending
- Systemic #Equity or Lack Thereof
We need to choose to make life better for the 98%, because of those things that are NOT a choice. #Taxtherich, and use the funds to promote economic equity. That's called #Civilization .
Canada should recognize celebrations like Eid, Diwali and Lunar New Year as public holidays
#Canada #EidMubarak #Eid #Diwali #LunarNewYear #PublicHolidays #Diversity #Inclusion #Equity #Holidays #Multiculturalism
https://the-14.com/canada-should-recognize-celebrations-like-eid-diwali-and-lunar-new-year-as-public-holidays/
From: blenderdumbass . org
The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were e...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/equal_rights_to_kids
People across the country are fed up with both parties bowing down to billionaires. They want to tax the rich now. They want to keep Social Security and expand Medicare. They are sick and tired of corporate greed running rampant in our policy-making.
In a democracy, power should be in the hands of workers, community members, and democratically accountable representatives—not billionaires who are trying to enrich themselves at our expense. —Rashida Tlaib, congresswoman. #USPol #USPolitics #politics #democracy #Billionaires #TaxBillionaires #equity #ClassWar #PowerToThePeople
@nazgul
The US was built on stolen land, from murdered populations, using enslaved labor
"A house built on sand cannot stand...." & this house has been given plenty of time to recognize its cruel ignorant arrogance
I am heartbroken about the suffering the fall of this house is causing but praying we can eventually rebuild on Rock:
#Equity #Compassion #Truth #Solidarity
In an especially strange twist, the case — against #TownstoneFinancial, a small Chicago-based lender — was brought during #Trump’s first term by Kathleen Kraninger, the director he appointed to run the #CFPB.
#RussVought, who became the agency’s acting director last month, said it had “used radical ‘#equity’ arguments to tag Townstone as #racist with zero evidence, & spent years persecuting & extorting them.”
