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It's late January, which means it is time for many families to start thinking about public school, charter school, private school, and magnet school admissions. Today we talk about primary and secondary education (K–12) and how individual and systemic choices deepen and maintain racial and economic segregation to the detriment of America’s schoolchildren. (Bonus workout: check out our first edition on school integration from almost a year ago).
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Note: As of press time, the government shutdown continues. In addition to today's workout on climate change, we also recommend that you keep pushing on DACA and CHIP with phone calls, ResistBot, and protests.
2017 was one of the hottest years on record, marked by patterns of extreme weather. While the science of hurricanes is complicated, climate experts have found clear links between the severity of hurricane-related flooding and climate change. Global warming can moreover be held responsible for devastating wildfires in California and heatwaves worldwide. These are not issues to be chill about.
The administration’s war on immigrants continues, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeting those in the U.S. with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS allows immigrants fleeing civil wars, natural disasters, or other dangerous situations to remain in the United States and work and travel. An estimated 437,000 people from 10 countries—many of which Trump has described in nasty, racist terms—are protected by TPS. Last week, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen decided to terminate TPS for over 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador, effective September 2019 (a similar move to terminate TPS status for Haitian immigrants was announced in November).
