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And one thing thats clear in this area of the law is you cant use government property, like, say, the white house driveway or the white house premises in any way. Its one of the reasons, for example, senators, members of the house have to get up and leave their offices and go to a private building, which is not far from the capitol, to make phone calls involving their campaign and especially involving campaign fundraising. Theyre not allowed to use the phone right there on their desk in their Senate Office to make a call about fundraising. E but the Trump White House doesnt seem to know any of...

Comply with what is clearly an oversight issue on a law that Congress Passed called the hatch act. Its a pretty important thing they want to talk to her about. The principle of the hatch act is that you shouldnt use the powers of the government to get yourself elected, and thats a really important thing in america and in our constitutional republic. And if that has been thinned out, if thats something were going to scoff at in terms of a law because people having gone to jail for it in the past, thats a really big change for us to go through as a country right when were heading into an electio...

Summit School District Equity Advisory Team Summit Middle School Library Information Specialist Rebecca Kaplan, left, and Summit School District Language Development and Equity Coordinator Rita Tracy serve on the Summit School District Equity Advisory Team. It is the charge of public education — as stipulated in the federal No Child Left Behind (2001) and Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) — to instruct all students regardless of their degree of readiness, family circumstances or language proficiency at their grade level and ensure they make adequate progress each school year. When we do n...

motivation and rationale for the policy. The presentation included quotes from Equity Literacy Institute founder Nita Mosby Tyler alongside national, state and local academic data classified by racial groups. Prefacing the demographic data, Kaplan said the district’s achievement gaps are caused by opportunity gaps. “It is clear not everyone has the same opportunity as a white student in this district or as a wealthy student in this district or as a male student in this district,” Kaplan said. Kaplan pointed to several data points, including how students classified as Latinx comprise 9...

  “Historical inequities exist and persist within Summit School District. White students are overrepresented in district programs. … Institutionalized racism and systemic oppression due to language proficiency continue to have the largest impact on student performance …” — Summit School District proposed Policy for Just and Equitable Education . . It will be read again, and is expected to be adopted, at the board meeting May 13. Pretty harsh self-judgment. The Summit School District has already suffered one misstep on this path. The news release it issued Sept. 25 To be fair, white...