“I Love Food” Day
Teddy Bear Day
Wiener Schnitzel Day
Wonderful Weirdos Day *
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Day
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World Physical Therapy Day
Ampersand Day *
Pardon Day *
Date-Nut Bread Day
U.N. International Literacy Day *
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings.
This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning
a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity
in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As
members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond
to the human difference between us with fear and loathing and to
handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that
is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it
if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating
across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences
have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation…
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Acorn Squash Day
Buy a Book Day *
Grandma Moses Day *
Salami Day *
Superhuman Day *
Neither Rain Nor Snow Day *
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National Read a Book Day
Circumnavigation Day *
Coffee Ice Cream Day
Louisa Ann Swain Day *
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Secretary of Education DeVos issued a rule requiring states to share coronavirus relief funds with private schools, irrespective of need or low-income status.
News from the NAACP, the Education Law Center, and the Southern Poverty Law Center:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 4, 2020
Contacts: Ashley Levett, (334) 296-0084 / ashley.levett@splcenter.org
Sharon Krengel, (973) 624-1815, x24 / skrengel@edlawcenter.org
Parents, Districts, and NAACP Win Major Victory as Federal Court Blocks
Illegal DeVos Rule Nationwide
WASHINGTON D C – Late this afternoon the U S District Court for the District of Columbia
Judge Friedrich wrote: “Congress expressed a clear and unambiguous preference for apportioning funding to private schools based on the number of children from low-income families…” The court continued: “Contrary to the Department’s interim final rule, that cannot mean the opposite of what it says.”….The court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in NAACP v. DeVos, striking down a rule that imposes…
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Today is an important day in the history of education in the United States. Federal courts had ordered the schools of Little Rock to admit nine black students. Crowds of white supremacists gathered to block their entry. On this day, Governor Orval Faunus called up the National Guard to prevent the black students from entering Little Rock’s Central High School.
From Garrison Keillor’s “The Writers’ Almanac”:
It was on this day in 1957 that Arkansas governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to bar nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. In response, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne Division to make sure they could enroll. A few days later, Eisenhower made a prime-time, live televised speech to the nation in which he said, “Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
President Eisenhower proceeded to nationalize the…
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Cheese Pizza Day
Be Late for Something Day *
Jury Rights Day *
Two-Ingredient Cocktail Day
U.N. International Day of Charity *
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Penny Press Day *
Welsh Rarebit Day
U.S. Bowling League Day
National Skyscraper Day *
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V-J Day II *
Grits for Breakfast Day
Blueberry Popsicle Day
Calendar Adjustment Day *
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