Right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court (R) could end affirmative action

The Supreme Court is widely expected to overturn or roll back affirmative action in college admissions. Many education experts say this could change everything about the process — including scholarships, standardized testing and alumni preferences. https://t.co/ZHFngtGov6
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 16, 2023

Black applicants receiving offers of admission would drop to half that of white students…predicting a return to “1960s levels.” https://t.co/QHI8R1kAhh
— Jonathan M. Metzl (@JonathanMetzl) January 15, 2023

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear argument in a pair of cases raising the momentous question whether universities can continue to employ any sort of affirmative action in admissions.
As the Dobbs case overturned some 50 years of precedent, the Court looks poised to undo
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) October 30, 2022

If the court ends affirmative action, even banning targeted outreach to POC applicants, there will still be aff action for rich (white) kids. https://t.co/GMPQYdQgSV
— Michael Mechanic (@MichaelMechanic) January 15, 2023

The Biden administration should have been prepared for the student loan court decision

You knew that Republican judges would do this.

The Biden administration should have anticipated what Republican judges would do and had something ready when the court decision was announced. This is also true of the Supreme Court abortion decision.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) November 16, 2022

The extreme right-wing Supreme Court will probably end affirmative action

As part of their plan to take the country back to the 1950s, I expect the extremist Supreme Court (R) to overturn affirmative action.

The Court is poised to “transform Brown from an indictment against racial apartheid into a tool that supports racial exclusion.” We’re all learning that the gap between the unimaginable and the inevitable is narrowing fast and may soon vanish altogether.https://t.co/mTV9WJCII9
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 28, 2022

Affirmative action under threat as high court hears UNC case https://t.co/t25n72PLYL
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2022

This week the Supreme Court hears a challenge to affirmative action—and will likely overrule more than four decades of precedents on college admissions. https://t.co/cyjL45F6ub
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 29, 2022

The most diverse group of Supreme Court justices in history will gather Monday to confront the issue that has vexed and deeply divided past courts: affirmative action. https://t.co/x60mrKaQmh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 29, 2022

It’s official: Supreme Court is nixing affirmative action next term. Arguments set for October https://t.co/5XOqaBK80Z
— Sophia Tesfaye (@SophiaTesfaye) August 12, 2022

Supreme Court will hear two major cases concerning race-based affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina on October 31 https://t.co/jPjHbWmHHi
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 3, 2022

Next term, the Supreme Court will hear a case about affirmative action. Justice Thomas' wife sits on the board of the group that is backing the lawsuit.

This is why it's important we have a code of ethics for our judicial system: so conflicts of interest like this do not arise.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 2, 2022

School test score declines were not from school shutdowns

No – if it were the result of shutdowns, then places that shut down and stayed closed longer would have had far worse outcomes than those that didn't. They didn't. California, for instance, did better than avg, and LA was the only place to have reading scores actually go up. https://t.co/zKa3IP9Z6R
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 24, 2022

Plummeting U.S. test scores aren’t a red state vs. blue state thing https://t.co/6YuaWlfAMx
— Eugene Robinson (@Eugene_Robinson) October 24, 2022

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Bad attacks on public schools

The right wants to sabotage public schools so their kids don’t have to learn the facts. They’re showing bigotry, too.

The stakes, experts said, are high. If Americans do not trust teachers, those with resources may pull their children into private schools, endangering public-school funding, which is tied to enrollment. https://t.co/n5bW7eE8LH pic.twitter.com/feNkikAr6P
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 7, 2022

States have been steadily shifting more burden of public higher ed from taxpayers to families precisely as student body is growing more diverse. Fed Ed Dept projects the school year starting now is last one ever in which whites will comprise most HS grads. https://t.co/iX6btHQ3G3 https://t.co/YmLasEuUDa
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 27, 2022

With thousands of teaching vacancies across the country, the U.S. is seeing an exodus of educators.

"The breaking point for me was continuously being devalued," Qorsho Hassan, former Minnesota Teacher of the Year, tells @GeoffRBennett. https://t.co/kJJsHLr25l
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) August 20, 2022

We don’t have a shared story of America’s past anymore — and that’s a problem, Jonathan Zimmerman writes in @madebyhistory. https://t.co/h6e0JjwVCN
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) August 20, 2022

The mission of restoring an America where white Christians exerted the dominant influence made explicit: "Kari Lake Wants a 'Trump-Inspired' Curriculum Crafted at a Private Christian College Taught in Arizona's Public Schools" https://t.co/tHsPKPoFmS
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 15, 2022

In Arizona, even advocates of the school voucher program admit that they only cover about two-thirds of tuition at most private schools, leaving parents responsible for thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs. https://t.co/zGGPxrnsxS
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) August 11, 2022

It's been only a few weeks since millions of children returned to America's schools — but the debate surrounding the teaching of gender identity and race is already at a fever pitch https://t.co/Hq0aOirOv1
— CNN (@CNN) September 7, 2022

The right-wing attack on public schools

Republicans and their Supreme Court (R) don’t want kids to learn the truth about American History and want to abolish the separation of church and state.

In elevating free exercise over disestablishment, the Supreme Court is allowing private interests to trample any robust notion of the public good.
https://t.co/zZogvh6kDx
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) July 9, 2022

Republicans have become increasingly anti-institutional, especially in the domain of education. A majority of Republicans and two-thirds of conservative Republicans say that public schools have a negative effect on America. https://t.co/e4Ulkl2oUB pic.twitter.com/eNcR8DE9G8
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 8, 2022

Prominent right-wing commentators openly calling for the dismantling of the public education system which serves roughly 50 million students. Republicans won't be far behind. pic.twitter.com/eHiZSLBH8H
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 8, 2022

It’s important to explicitly name what’s happening here: The Governor of Oklahoma is using taxpayer money to target public schools in a town which saw one of the worst instances of racial violence in American history & accuse them of breaking the law by teaching their own history https://t.co/sJp4SOeqjk
— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) July 7, 2022

Ohio Republicans want schools to teach both sides of the Holocaust

Terrible idea. Anti-semitic, too.

This is a friendly reminder that Ohio House Republicans are advancing a bill to teach BOTH SIDES OF THE HOLOCAUST.
— Rep. Casey Weinstein (@RepWeinstein) July 8, 2022

If you’re still on the fence about where the MAGA party stands:

The Ohio House has advanced a bill to teach students about the holocaust from the Nazi’s perspective.

This is why state and local elections matter.

Get. Them. Out.https://t.co/rxj03srCgB
— David Yankovich (@DavidYankovich) July 8, 2022

Never spent a day in an actual school, but wants to make teachers include the Nazi POV when teaching the Holocaust. Vote wisely, Ohio! https://t.co/gweBNKdc4Q
— MelB (@MelBaggers) July 8, 2022

Public colleges promote upward mobility

Note that it’s Cal State and obscure UT campuses, though.

It’s the whole non-prestige tier of American higher education that gets under-discussed. Quality here is very mixed but when it’s good it’s extremely valuable. https://t.co/FFlFwZ7kpj
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 2, 2022

Examples of Republicans who are distorting history in school textbooks

I expect red state textbooks to say Biden didn’t win a fair election in 2020.

One concerned teacher said Christian nationalism is "just baked into" every part of DeSantis' new initiative. (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/em2PS2tZLw
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 1, 2022

Teachers told the Miami Herald the new standards portray the founders as against the idea of the separation of church and state, downplay the role of the colonies in slavery, and push conservative judicial theories. https://t.co/CXFuVAalTL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 1, 2022

Included in the new civics training for Florida public school teachers is the statement that it is a “misconception” that “the Founders desired strict separation of church and state.” https://t.co/5zP5psfdb2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 2, 2022

Wisconsin school board members dismissed a book on Japanese American incarceration during World War II because it created an “unbalanced” account of history, outraged parents say. https://t.co/qXesk4nfRQ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 1, 2022

Restricting voting access is about changing the electorate of today; censoring the teaching of race/gender/sexual orientation and banning books is about changing the electorate of tomorrow. https://t.co/fkHERTj3zZ https://t.co/k1uVI5tH7M
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 1, 2022

I wasn’t planning on speaking today, but when a GOP Senator stepped up to the mic to MOCK @SenErikaGeiss and me for walking out of a second “CRT” hearing in the Michigan Senate, I couldn’t let it stand. pic.twitter.com/ZKmBRyKXPA
— Senator Dayna Polehanki (@SenPolehanki) June 9, 2022

Republicans now refuse to use the word “slavery”. https://t.co/77OGlCfape
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 1, 2022

Kudos to @washingtonpost for being the only one I've seen to get the headline right on this. Everyone else went for the clickbait/panic effect.

Horrifying that it was proposed, but the right thing did happen.https://t.co/xe4UZwoSWT
— Natalie Jackson (@nataliemj10) July 1, 2022