This is quite insane. After a long debate that ultimately (nearly) doubled the number of private school vouchers statewide in TN to 35,000, the Assembly is now proposing *unlimited" vouchers in a separate program in all of the urban counties in TN (1/n) www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...
So you're telling me the vouchers didn't actually expand access to private schools, but instead helped line the pockets of these schools? I'm shocked.
Josh Cowen: You shouldn’t take seriously a single thing red state Republicans say about accountability in education until they require the same standards for voucher schools that they demand for traditional public schools.
Rep Tom Kean Jr likes to claim that ICE is targeting "dangerous criminals" in NJ and making "our neighborhoods safer."
The truth: "The data show more than three in four people detained in NJ since January 2025 had no criminal record."
Tom: Stop repeating Trump's lies!
www.nj.com/politics/202...
#ICYMI, from @josephinelee.bsky.social: The Texas Observer discovered Houston's state-appointed superintendent was moonlighting as a paid consultant for Third Future School, the charter school network he founded.
He canceled the potentially illegal contract when we asked about it.
Ordering my Felix Reyes jersey now! (Can I get one yet?)
Who is Felix Reyes and why do I already love this guy so much?! #Phillies
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Reviewer 2 asked for a citation to verify the effect size was practically significant, so...
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
This is baked into the business model of Charterschools it appears. This happened across the country all the time.
I have argued for this for forty years.
No one in this picture is wearing a tan suit or eating Dijon mustard, so I don't see why it would be a scandal.
An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
(Published Aug. 2025)
A lot has been said about Trump's executive order on "restoring truth and sanity to American history" that called for a review on displays at national parks that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
But what is Trump's admin vision for history? We got the answer in Philadelphia.
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Not cynical, realistic.
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
Nope. Start instead by addressing the pay gap in teaching (and other "feminized" professions). And stop denigrating educators by blaming them for problems they didn't create and can't be expected to solve on their own.
Children suffering and dying because you didn't like her laugh...
A hotel room without electrical outlets on both sides of the bed is just stupid.
We are seeing the fruits of an intentional, structural gutting and undermining of traditional avenues of protest by young people.
Activists on campuses fought for the institutionalization and resourcing of movement space and studies (especially racial, cultural, queer, women's, etc).
Thx to the NY Times for giving this hack the "respectability" he needs to command such a fee for his hackery.
Sweet Christmas, make it stop
it isn't all of it, but "having to admit the hated left was right about something" is the barrier to so much
You can leave a healthy cat alone at home for 48 hours, no problem. Just saying.
Students were told for a decade about how incredibly important free speech on campus was. And then it wasn't. What lessons did we teach students over the last year? If you are a student today, do you feel confident that the government, media and university will support your speech rights?
Where is Tom Kean, Jr. (R, NJ-7) these days? Does he think all of this is OK? Is he going to continue to sit by and do nothing while Trump runs amok? Does he care at all???
“Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive. Drug use is down, youth violence has dropped and teen pregnancies have declined.” It’s almost like panic abt kids’ wellbeing serve existing adult demands for control.
