Mark McKechnie

@MarkMcKechnie3

26 years working for kids: counselor, social worker, teacher, advocate, nonprofit director... now Senior Consultant on Equity in School Discipline.

Joined November 2018

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  1. 8 hours ago

    Free education for all children was a radical idea. It still is.

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Your monthly reminder that trickle-down economics is cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and poor.

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    Numbers posted today by show the National Debt ended 2018 more than $2-trillion larger than on the day Pres Trump took office. It represents a 10% increase in the Debt on Pres Trump's watch. National Debt now stands at $21.974-trillion. 1/2

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  4. Jan 3

    "The list of things you are not supposed to do in an interview is practically a definition of autism. Don't look away, look the employer in the eye, sell yourself. All of these are very difficult for autistic people."

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  5. Jan 3
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  6. 31 Dec 2018

    Houston (and Washington), we still have a problem: Houston's rate of out-of-school suspensions for black students, 20.8 percent, was nearly eight times higher than that for white students, 2.7 percent (2017-18)

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    29 Dec 2018

    US leads the world in child gun deaths

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  8. 27 Dec 2018

    Reflecting on how I learned about Gordon Parks by attending a talk of his in college. Amazingly talented photographer, composer, author, film maker. How did I not know who he was until then?

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  9. 27 Dec 2018

    We need to do better in 2019, America. Living while black: Here are all the mundane activities for which police were called on African-Americans this year

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  10. 26 Dec 2018
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  12. 26 Dec 2018
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  13. 26 Dec 2018

    Reading Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain, by Zaretta Hammond, today. Key passage:

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  14. 26 Dec 2018
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  15. Retweeted
    22 Dec 2018

    I don’t just wear locs. They are a part of me. A gift to me. They mean something to me. So to watch this young man’s ordeal, wrecked me. The criminalization of what grows from him. The theft of what was his. Two hours of calls w/ officials yesterday. Two hours of heartache.

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    If Trump shuts down the government, hundreds of thousands of federal employees will work without pay in the days before Christmas, including about: 53,000 TSA workers 42,000 Coast Guard employees 41,000 law enforcement and corrections officers 5,000 Forest Service firefighters

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  17. 19 Dec 2018
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  18. 19 Dec 2018

    "The science is clear that racial discipline gaps exist, cannot be explained by differences in student behavior alone, and are roadblocks to educational opportunity and equity."

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  19. 18 Dec 2018

    Federal Discipline Changes Have No Effect on Washington’s Law

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  20. 18 Dec 2018
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