Guest Blogger
Teacher
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ivonne Orozco is the 2018 New Mexico Teacher of the Year. She teaches high school Spanish in Albuquerque. As a first-generation college student, immigrant, former DACA recipient, queer woman of color, Ivonne has found her voice in education through her intersectionalities. Ivonne is a co-founder of Teachers Against Child Detention.
This post is an open letter to the Trump administration, signed by 45 former State Teachers of the Year and…
Let me drop some numbers on y’all real quick. We know that starting as early as Pre-K, Black students are three times more likely to…
On March 13, 2020, when Governor Newsom shut down schools in California including in LAUSD where my son is now a senior, I held my…
There have been some good reasons to close schools over the past year—in the early days of the pandemic, for example, or during major weather…
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