Shanon Taylor

Shanon Taylor

@drspedinnv.bsky.social

Professor of special education at Univ. of NV, Reno. All posts mine. Former teacher of E/BD students. Mom, WIFE + 🐈‍⬛ ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8542-1765 https://www.unr.edu/education/about/faculty-and-staff/department-educator-preparation/shanon-taylor

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This, the tech CEO that needs AI to name three special things about her own child … one, why does anyone admit they’re letting AI make them clueless? Two, why are they letting AI make them clueless?

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Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

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"The Clark County School District operates about 1,900 buses, the largest district-owned and operated fleet in the country."

longislandtonv.bsky.social@longislandtonv.bsky.social

Diesel prices are hitting school districts' buses in a big way. Here's what's happening in the 5th largest district in the country, Clark County, NV which encompasses Las Vegas and beyond. www.fox5vegas.com/2026/09/25/r...

So … just saw a commercial for TIAA wealth management using the Blister in the Sun guitar riff. I mean, I love me my Femmes and all my retirement “wealth” is in TIAA, but it just seems weird to combine those two things.

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Some of the nation’s first statewide voucher programs were created specifically for students with disabilities. But most legislatures haven’t required private schools that take this public money to accept even a few kids with such needs.

propublica.orgVouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...

Not lying y’all, if I didn’t show up for work for 100 days, I’d have to file FMLA paperwork. Not partisan here, but if ANY representative can disappear for this long, they should have to explain it. Or stop getting paid.

Johnathan Perkins@johnathanperk.bsky.social

Mitch McConnell has not been seen for nearly 100 days.

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Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

Perfect for all my Reno friends who have avoided the grocery store and/or Costco for the last week.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net

"There’s a song playing, and you’re pretty sure it’s the same song, and you’re pretty sure it’s been playing all day, but you’re not quite sure where it’s coming from or how to turn it off." buff.ly/LwUD20k

To make fun of adolescents taking part in a skills development program takes a special kind of horribleness in a person.

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

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This is appalling in so many ways.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Linda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to them...the beauty of that is the student almost has a one-on-one tutor...I have seen it work so well"

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"Cross’ employees ultimately got paid with university funds for the rest of the week after the cancellation. Eventually they lost their jobs altogether. Two suffered anxiety attacks that landed them in the emergency room. Several no longer work in education." www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

edweek.orgTrump Cut Their Education Grants. Here’s What Happened NextGrantees whose work ground to a halt last year lament broken promises and abandoned projects.

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OPINION by Kenyon Andrews: Special education funding for Nevada schools is under threat — but special needs students aren’t going anywhere. When we decide only certain students are worth teaching, they all suffer. thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

thenevadaindependent.comOPINION: Special needs funding in Nevada is education funding, period - The Nevada IndependentOPINION: Special needs funding in Nevada is education funding, period. Read more at The Nevada Independent.

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🚨BREAKING: In a win for Nevada voters, a court dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling, which came shortly after the 6th Circuit rejected to rehear the DOJ's Michigan case, marks the 22nd loss in the department's hunt for such data.

This is horrifying. We’re fully back in J. Edgar Hoover territory

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social

Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Holy moly, if I were a lawyer and a judge said this to me, I’d start praying for the earth to open up and swallow me.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

DOJ: We want a clean clear order... JUDGE: I've already done that! Do you want me to issue another order saying "I really mean it this time"? 28/

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A great day for the disgraced doctor Wakefield, who was struck off the medical register for serious misconduct—he pushed for spacing RFK Jr says statues should be built in Wakefield’s honor; he welcomed him here in the US, bringing him into MAHA A terrible day for kids apnews.com/article/vacc...

apnews.comTrump to sign executive order calling for spacing out childhood shotsPresident Donald Trump will sign an executive order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three dif...

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I’m proud to reintroduce the VITAL Act! More than 1 in 4 adults have some type of disability, yet less than 6% of our housing supply is designed to be accessible. My bill would help increase affordable housing that is accessible for our most vulnerable communities!

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Pretty soon the FDA is going to put out an alert saying: “We’re just gonna need everyone to stop eating for a week or two while we figure this stuff out.”

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Researchers at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark have conducted multiple landmark, population-wide studies tracking hundreds of thousands to over 1.2 million children using national health registries to examine potential links between vaccines and autism. Every major study found no connection.

en.ssi.dkLarge Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditionsA new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...

Holy moly, this is a stunning figure. Every Democrat running should use this.

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social

Since the Cold War ended 50 million of the 52 million net new jobs created in America have been created under Democratic Presidents. Essentially all of them. 4/

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The Trump administration today unveiled a radical proposed overhaul of Head Start, framed as “expanding access” but achieved through larger class sizes, fewer staff and credential requirements, reduced health and family services, and potentially shorter hours

Great new addition to the policy world & disability scholarship, primarily done by people with disabilities. Share with students, scholars, disabled people, anyone interested in policy - share with everyone!

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty.bsky.social

Produce Policy. Build Power. Happy Disability Pride Month! I'm excited to launch @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social in partnership with @incldisability.bsky.social. Disabled people are already policy experts. The Foundry helps develop, publish, & advance disability policy grounded in lived experience.

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A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

nytimes.comJudge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath KeepersThe judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

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Yaaas! Good news on a Sunday! The senate moves to temporarily ban the OMB proposal that would allow political appointees in charge of approving federal grants, especially #NIH grants. Recall that the OMB rule yielded 500k comments, 95% of them against it. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

politico.comSenate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaulLanguage is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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Very good sign for grants

Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social

People doubted me when I said that Russell Vought was not popular hill and people would not looked kindly on his attempt to put the grant making process in his pocket. Well. 👀, www.politico.com/live-updates....

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The Senate HELP committee passed a bill that would block the Trump administration from transferring many functions (including postsecondary education) out of the Department of Education, but would allow student loans to be transferred to Treasury.

politico.comSenate education committee blocks parts of Trump’s Education Department breakupSen. Tim Kaine negotiated a bipartisan bill to stop the department from offloading special education, K-12 programs and additional functions to other federal agencies.