Relentless education champion. Recovering biochemist. Equity advocate. World wanderer. Wannabe cook. Movie enthusiast. Crazy bird lady. THAT neighbor.
Austin, TX
Joined August 2011
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Carolyn Landel retweeted
.@RMPartnership_ used a youth-centered strategy to help @sd27j pass a local school ballot measure to raise funds for the district and its 22,000 students. With these youth-led efforts, the measure passed by more than 57%. See how: hubs.li/Q01-6m9K0 #bettertogether
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The practice of hiring uncertified teachers is not new. Last year ~30% of newly hired teachers across the state held no teaching certification. Texas has a systems issue when it comes to our teacher workforce. High-quality preparation and compensation are key. #txed #txlege
Preparation and pay are key to ensure teachers will want to stay. But, Texas districts have long struggled to hire teachers due to lack of a robust teacher workforce pipeline and recent record-high attrition rates. #txed #txlege
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Carolyn Landel retweeted
Check it! Here, I break down the case for climate reparations, using the words of legendary poet/soul singer Gil Scott-Heron to make my argument that the U.S. needs to pay up.
msnbc.com/the-reidout/repara…
Carolyn Landel retweeted
1 million
That is how many votes are already in here in Texas - and the state isn't even finished tallying the first day of in-person Early Voting.
And it probably goes without saying but, this is a CRAZY high number.
houstonchronicle.com/politic…
Carolyn Landel retweeted
Harris County emails that 128,186 people voted early there today. 67,471 people voted early there on the first day of early voting in 2016.
Carolyn Landel retweeted
BREAKING: Nearly all eligible voters in Travis County are registered to vote this year.
A record 97% of the county’s estimated 850,000 eligible voters are registered atxne.ws/3lHQ1xv
Carolyn Landel retweeted
BREAKING: El Paso County's turnout for the first day of early voting was 74% above 2016 and 44% above 2018, when native son @BetoORourke was on the ballot for the Senate. elpasomatters.org/2020/10/13…
Carolyn Landel retweeted
Spotify has a playlist with the speeches from John Lewis’ homecoming, if you missed it.
open.spotify.com/show/4NtIqk…
Carolyn Landel retweeted
The night John Lewis visited the set of SELMA, I was in awe. I was humbled to be in his presence...notice in the background of this photo that moment was captured. The look on my face says it all, as I followed him around. Thank you @Ava. God Bless John Lewis
Carolyn Landel retweeted
John believed that in all of us, there exists the capacity for great courage and a longing to do what’s right. We are so lucky to have had him show us the way. I offered some thoughts today on his life and how, like him, we can give it all we have. obama.medium.com/my-eulogy-f…
Carolyn Landel retweeted
Former President Barack Obama on John Lewis and Bernard Lafayette boarding a segregated bus: "Imagine the courage of two people Malia's age, younger than my oldest daughter, on their own to challenge an entire infrastructure of oppression." abcn.ws/3hVkvud
Carolyn Landel retweeted
There’s been talk of feds distracting Portland from BLM, and there’s been people trying to mislead the movement.
So Portland came out tonight to say #BlackLivesMatter
Carolyn Landel retweeted
President Obama: "We're born with instructions to form a more perfect union. Explicit in those words is the idea that we're imperfect. What gives each new generation purpose is to take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further than any might have thought possible."
Carolyn Landel retweeted
I’ve been using the phrase predatory capitalism but after listening to James Lawson I may need to switch to plantation capitalism
Carolyn Landel retweeted
“John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.” — President Obama
Carolyn Landel retweeted
.@barackobama: "We may no longer have to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar to cast the ballot. But even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations ... "
Carolyn Landel retweeted
Rev. James Lawson closes with ‘I Dream A World’ poem written by Langston Hughes:
I Dream A World
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way... – at Wellington, FL
Carolyn Landel retweeted
There’s just no evidence that mail-in voting disproportionately benefits Democrats. bit.ly/3jOzdoq
Carolyn Landel retweeted
Trump’s racist tweet about a “Suburban Lifestyle Dream” is exactly why we must lead on a new Southern Strategy. The politics of hate, lies, and fear have crippled generations.
Our enemy is not one another, but a system that profits from poverty and inequity.
The real swamp.
Carolyn Landel retweeted
It's rare that Black colleges receive these sorts of transformational donations. I wrote about the donation disparity last year: theatlantic.com/education/ar…
