#education underfunded

[recountmag]

(via The struggle of Ms. Rodriguez in inner-city Chicago)

[yugocar]

"you guys don't understand this about america!" followed by things that the majority of people absolutely understand about america

[hymnsofheresy]

my hot take is that us americans in general don't respect education or educators on a social level. which is what leads to our entire education system being underfunded.

[feluka]

when i hear people use the 'but the education we received is bad!' excuse i remember that one time in science class the book brought up the big bang theory and the teacher straight up said 'wow that's really blasphemous, i'm not gonna teach that!' and made us skip the whole chapter

[snailthimbles]

i cant do this anymore :)

[butchlifeguard]

hii! can i ask how people think butches are privileged?

i've just heard the take a couple times that women (+ adjacent) are oppressed for being feminine, rather than being women. it seems like a small difference but some follow that logic and claim that masculine and butch women *aren't* oppressed for their supposed proximity to the patriarchy. take that with a grain of salt because i dont have sources of that take, but for something similar you could observe the stereotypes of 'not like other girls,' where young women who prefer to dress casually and have men friends are said to have internalized misogyny. ultimately this serves to remove blame from men in perpetuating patriarchal values, and instead places it on gnc women, which is just a progressive way of punishing any woman who dares to be Too Masculine. genuinely ty for the question i needed to organize a few of these thoughts.

[thundergrace]

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

This probably sounds super pedantic, but I hate how people, and especially businesses and governments, are re-framing 'commuters' and 'clients' as 'customers.'

[versacethotty]

heat wave detected and mechanic telling me that he don't know what to do abt broken AC in car…

[reasoningdaily]

https://x.com/TheBWSTimes/status/1704505972213821818?t=crF9Fmf3_SbHsCULHfiX5g&s=09

The state of Oklahoma underfunded its only historically Black college (HBCU), Langston University, by $418 million over the last 30 years compared to its white counterpart Oklahoma State University, White House officials stated in a letter on Monday.

Oklahoma, along with 15 other states, underfunded their HBCUs for decades, in violation of an 1890 law that required equal funding for all land-grant institutions.

In a letter sent to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and 15 others, including Democrats and Republicans, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack suggested working with states to remedy the disparities for underfunded HBCUs like Langston University.

“Given the large amount of state funding that is owed to Langston University, it would be ambitious to address the funding disparity over the course of several years in the state budget,” the officials stated. They also suggested supporting Oklahoma and other states with a “two-to-one” match of federal funds to address the issue.

Gov. Stitt’s office has acknowledged the underfunding.

What is a land-grant university?

Universities designated as land-grant institutions refers to the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. The federal government provided land and supportive funding for states to establish colleges for research purposes. Decades later, however, segregation continued to deny opportunities to Black students.

Therefore, the federal government passed the Second Morrill Act in 1890. It required states that wanted to create a separate university for Black students to provide equal funding.

At a time when history has come under scrutiny in the classroom, the disparities show Jim Crow racism continues to impact students at underfunded Langston University today.

According to the White House letter, which compared funding between each state’s historically white and historically Black land-grant universities, they failed to provided equal funding.

HBCU Langston University underfunded: will state-federal partnership fix it?

Gov. Stitt is currently celebrating a record-level of state funding, despite Democrats urging him to use the funding for crucial service programs. Stitt’s called a special session for the beginning of October for a personal policy goal. He’s urging legislators to eliminate the state’s income tax.

Meanwhile, the White House officials are urging Stitt and 15 other governors not to take funding away from one program to balance the disparities for underfunded Langston University.

“We want to make abundantly clear that it is not necessary to reduce funding to other institutions, nor make a reduction in general fund allocations to Langston University in addressing these disparities,” the officials wrote.

Read the full White House letter here.

[falllpoutboy]

people are so quick to blame teachers on literally everything and then wonder why there is a national shortage of teachers and support staff in schools lol

[ovisiphorus]

Media literacy is a buzzword and functionally meaningless as a term the way it is employed. We have to start beating people who use it instead of saying what it is they WANT to say instead.

[silverstarfics]

me, agreeing to work the early shift: this is fine. nothing can possibly go wrong.

five minutes later: *part of the ceiling literally collapses*

[toomanysubcultures]

FUCK people who put knowledge behind a paywall fr

[uwumacaronitime]

Public school window blocked by ad.

Took 3 months ago, Mc. Gregor public elementary school, Toronto, Ontario. I know the image is slanted, I took this quickly while on my walk.

To be clear: Mc. Gregor has always been an underfunded, overpopulated school. Classes had to be merged into one classroom, and the amount of students in the school got so bad they had to full the playground with temporary buildings while my sister was attending. I'm 70% sure that this is just a supply closet window. But it's still depressing they have to put dental ads up for funding.

Tagging this more than usual because I want the word to be spread about this.

[asinglesock]

NA28 my beloved ❤️❤️❤️