ohmslewis:

bernieforthepeople:

The Betsy Devos Era of Education House Bill 610 is terrifying.
Please inform yourselves.

This bill will effectively start the school voucher system to be used by children ages 5-17, and starts the defunding process of public schools.
In addition the bill will eliminate the Elementary and Education Act of 1965, which is the nation’s educational law and provides equal opportunity in education.

It would repeal ESSA (Every Students Succeeds Act):
ESSA is a big comprehensive program that covers programs for struggling learners, AP classes, ESL classes, classes for minorities such as Native Americans, Rural Education, Education for the Homeless, School Safety (Gun-Free schools), Monitoring and Compliance and Federal Accountability Programs.

The Bill also abolishes the Nutritional Act of 2012 (No Hungry Kids Act) which provides nutritional standards in school breakfast and lunch.
The bill has no wording whatsoever protecting Special Needs kids, no mention of IDEA and FAPE.

Some things ESSA does for Children with Disabilities
-Ensures access to the general education curriculum.
-Ensures access to accommodations on assessments.
-Ensures concepts of Universal Design for Learning
-Includes provisions that require local education agencies to provide evidence-based interventions in schools with consistently underperforming subgroups.
-Requires states in Title I plans to address how they will improve conditions for learning including reducing incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, overuse of discipline practices and reduce the use of aversive behavioral interventions (such as restraints and seclusion).

Please call your representative and ask him/her to vote NO on House Bill 610 (HR 610) introduced by three Republican reps (now that’s a surprise!)

MORE: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/610

Call your representatives. Wake them up. Demand they not only vote no but actively block, fight and campaign AGAINST this bill. They’re stripping children of food, access to educations and the right to use the fucking bathroom. THESE ARE FUXKING KIDS.

counting-dollars-counting-stars:

They are voting on another Healthcare bill tomorrow (Thursday 5/4/17). 

This one is even worse than the last.

CALL THEM

EMAIL THEM

MAKE THEM FEEL THE CONSEQUENCES IF THEY VOTE FOR IT

justsomeantifas:

Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” news (May 1st 2017 - May 2nd 2017)

• Congress came to a bipartisan agreement on a spending bill and avoided the government shutdown. While both parties largely called this a win, Trump expressed his anger over Twitter and said that we need “a good [government] shutdown.“Complaining about the congressional negotiating process, Trump suggested we make changes to end bipartisanship. His options were to either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or outright change the rules to give Republicans more power by only requiring 51% in votes. This is similar to the “nuclear option,” that was deployed during Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination. (source)
  
  
• After White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus talked about the administration’s desire to change libel laws to make it easier to go after reporters, press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed those claims. Spicer said that this is “something that is being looked into.” (source)
  
  
• The administration was reportedly discontinuing the Let Girls Learn programs, which was created to help educate adolescent girls in developing countries. The State Department denies the report. (source)
  
  
• Trump’s agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue did confirm that he is going to roll back Michelle Obama’s healthy eating initiative for schools. While not completely eliminating the program, Perdue announced the guidelines regarding nutrition requirements for schools’ meal programs would be relaxed. (source)
  
  
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross commented on the U.S. strikes in Syria calling it “after-dinner entertainment” for him at Mar-a-Lago. “Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria. It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment. The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment.” (source)
  
  
• Trump announced that he in considering raising the gas tax, something that hasn’t been done in over two decades. According to him, the tax will help pay for infrastructure. (source)
  
  
• Trump abruptly ended an interview with Face the Nation when the host, John Dickerson, asked about the Obama wiretap claims. When asked about the claims, Trump complained that people weren’t talking about the issue - so Dickerson pressed him further and asked for his opinion. Refusing to answer the questions, Trump ended the interview. (source)
  
  
• For some reason, Trump was talking about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War. According to Trump, Jackson was angered at the Civil War (despite being dead) because he had a big heart (despite being a genocidal, slave-owning racist) and that we don’t know why there was a Civil War (despite the fact that we do). (source)
  
  
• House Republicans are having difficulty with their new Obamacare replacement plan. The revised bill has been altered to appease the Freedom Caucus making moderate republicans turned against the bill. About 20 republicans currently oppose the new plan and they can only lose 22 votes to still pass the bill. (source)
  
  
• While discussing his health care bill, Trump showed that he has no idea what’s actually in his proposed bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. He told the interviewer that those with preexisting conditions will be protected, however this is completely false under the new amendments to the plan. Trump make other comments in the interview about deductibles and insurance sales across state lines both which were false. At one point the interviewer even told Trump one of his plans wasn’t in the bill and Trump responded “Of course, it’s in.” (source)
  
  
• Anti-abortion activist, Teresa Manning, has been put in charge of the Title X program, which provides family planning funding for poor Americans or those without health insurance. Manning’s appointment marks the second anti-abortion person to join the administration this past week. Charmaine Yoest, former president of Americans United for Life, was just picked by Trump four days ago to serve as the department’s assistant secretary of public affairs. (source)
  
  
• Rep. Mo Brooks, discussed the GOP health care plan to repeal Obamacare where he implied that those with pre-existing conditions are not living the “right way.” Brooks stated, “My understanding is that [the new proposal] will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool. That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people - who’ve done things the right way - that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.” (source)
  
  
• Jared Kushner failed to disclose that he is currently a part-owner of a real-estate finance startup and has a number of loans (reaching $1 billion) from banks on properties he co-owns giving him ties with Goldman Sachs, George Soros and Peter Thiel. (source)
  
  
• Trump pushed back against reports that Steve Bannon is leaving the White House or being fired. He said that Bannon was a “very decent guy” who is getting a “bad rap.” (source)
  
  
• Trump is expected to sign a religious liberty executive order later this week. While the language of the order has not been finalized, it’s shown that it will give businesses and individuals the ability to claim broad religious objections. Mike Pence has been the person working on the language and writing that goes into the document and he’s been reportedly putting pressure on Trump to sign the order. The signing might happen on Thursday which is the National Day of Prayer. (source)
  
  
• During Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearings earlier this year, an activist was arrested after she laughed. After a senator claimed Sessions has a history of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented,” Desiree Fairooz laughed. Fairooz says she laughed because Sessions actually has the opposite history and has opposed equal rights. Now, federal prosecutors are pushing forward with a case against Fairooz and are saying that “the laugh amounted to willful ‘disorderly and disruptive conduct’ intended to ‘impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct’ of congressional proceedings.” If convicted, Fairooz could face up to six months in prison. (source)
  

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