Chloe Latham Sikes @csikesrun
Advocate for equitable, quality public education 🏫. Ph.D in Educational Leadership & Policy🤓. Deputy Director of Policy @IDRAedu. She/her. All tweets my own. Austin, TX Joined September 2012-
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As I was just prompted to fill out my parental permissions for my son's school so he can get a bandaid and join a club, per Texas #SB12, remember that schools must still support ALL students to succeed and thrive. Here's the @IDRAedu explainer:
🚨 Chaos + confusion is spreading across TX campuses. Some students are being wrongly denied in-state tuition—even though they’re lawfully present. 📚 Students deserve the right to learn. 🗣️ Webinar 8/28 @ 6:00PM CT → mobilize.us/unitedwedream/…
Texas politicians just ended in-state tuition for undocumented students—a cruel repeal of the 24-year-old Texas Dream Act. Students deserve better. 💔📚 🗣️ Join us 8/28 @ 6:00PM CT → mobilize.us/unitedwedream/…
“It’s a scary future, because if you have been to rural communities, you understand how foundational the school system is to the community,” said Bellsnyder. “As we lose funding and our community schools aren’t as strong, then our communities will become weak as well.”…
“Instead of providing this office with more capacity and more resources to do exactly what the executive order says — to make sure that everybody speaks English — they are doing the total opposite,” Garibay said. washingtonpost.com/education/2025…
Hey Michigan, look to Arizona for the future that billionaires like Betsy DeVos want for our kids: A no-accountability school voucher scam where funding that used to go your neighborhood public school now goes to your neighbor’s underwear.
Hey Michigan, look to Arizona for the future that billionaires like Betsy DeVos want for our kids: A no-accountability school voucher scam where funding that used to go your neighborhood public school now goes to your neighbor’s underwear.
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NABE we ORGANIZED and made calls to our elected officials! We did it! Our English Leaner sts will receive Title III funds for FY25 @NABEorg We celebrate today and will keep ORGANIZING for the FY26 budget. #IdentifyEducateMobilize
📣 REMINDER! Senate Redistricting Hearings have begun! 🎥 Watch live: senate.texas.gov/events.php 🔴Happening now: 🔹Regional focus: South and Central Texas including Bexar County, Travis County & the Rio Grande Valley regions 🧵 #txlege #redistricting #Texas
"School budgets are already very tight, so withholding funds for required programs such as those 4 English learners will certainly place a burden on school systems," 2024 National TOY @Missytesterman , an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor in TN abcnews.go.com/US/trump-admin…
UPDATE: I guess being a right-wing billionaire means never having to hear “no.” Betsy DeVos’s voucher scheme is back in the Senate bill after a few small tweaks to sneak through. This would ram vouchers into states that don’t want them.
UPDATE: I guess being a right-wing billionaire means never having to hear “no.” Betsy DeVos’s voucher scheme is back in the Senate bill after a few small tweaks to sneak through. This would ram vouchers into states that don’t want them.
Federal privacy law prohibits schools from sharing students’ data, with federal immigration, said Miriam Feldblum, ED of the President Alliance on Higher Education & Immigration. Those protections cannot be waived on the basis of a sts undocumented status.texastribune.org/2025/06/23/tex…
I was an undocumented TX college student. Im NOT going anywhere- and neither is our movement. Lawmakers lacked the political courage to force a floor vote at the Capitol on the Texas Dream Act, so state leaders took a coward’s path #TXlege #Immigration texasobserver.org/texas-dream-ac…
I just received some incredible—and truly humbling—news that my blog is ranked 6th nationally among the "Top 30 Educational Reform Blogs and Websites of 2025," just a few spots below the U.S. Department of Education's blog. Honestly, I’m a bit overwhelmed. I started this space…
Robbing students of an education is never good policy. The TX Dream Act has been a win for TX families and the TX economy. Our state is better because of it. This move doesn’t just harm our current and future students - it’s a loss for all of us. texastribune.org/2025/06/04/tex…
“The Texas House & Senate declined to repeal the Texas Dream Act this session because even state lawmakers recognized how out of touch that would be. Now Donald Trump is pushing the issue even further by suing Texas for giving these students a fair shot.” nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/…
Ending the Texas DREAM Act hurts Texas students & families. This is a huge blow to Texas high school graduates, especially those who just walked the stage with college plans in sight. #txdreamact #txed
Ending the Texas DREAM Act hurts Texas students & families. This is a huge blow to Texas high school graduates, especially those who just walked the stage with college plans in sight. #txdreamact #txed

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