Education Law Center news graphic: North Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Landmark School Funding Case

North Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Landmark School Funding Case edlawcenter.org/north-caroli...

Indianapolis Is Overhauling Its Education System. School Advocates Are Split. Charter and school choice advocates celebrate the change as common sense and a solution to financial problems for charters. Critics see an attack on traditional public schools.

New school district structure just dropped in Indianapolis. Seems like a combo of receivership and ‘recovery zone’ à la NOLA. www.governing.com/policy/india...

Don't follow Arizona's example. End universal vouchers now | Opinion Arizona has shown the nation what universal vouchers do to public schools. It's time to put our money toward all students and that's in public school.

Want to see how messy the politics of school vouchers are for Dems? Here's likely 2028 candidate Mark Kelly on what a disaster vouchers have been for Arizona. Meanwhile, pro-voucher Dems are in Mass. today to push Gov. Maura Healey to sign onto Trump's voucher plan www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

How many people does heat actually kill? It depends on how you count it

“For example, if there are 50 deaths on a day at the OT and 75 deaths at 10°C above the OT, we attribute the difference — 25 deaths — to heat.” www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-many-p...?

Toxic Assets — citygroup Toxic Assets; Seeing Like a Land Bank by Jesse McCormick and Betsy Clifton with Anderson Fletcher, Noah Protas, Kyra Zimmerman, and Richard Williamson...

“Toxic Assets: Seeing like a Land Bank” citygroup.nyc/Toxic-Assets

Been thinking a lot about these lines from Althusser's book on imperialism:

excellent

If you want to get some perspectives from teachers on what it's like to teach right now, this is a great special issue of Workplace: ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/wo...

I just gave a book talk about radical school finance a few floors above where UTLA was bargaining their big contract. Solidarity and thanks to the organizers—and the bargainers who joined us!

Tomorrow!

And after the Robin DG Kelley talk Thursday, on Saturday, I’ll be doing a book talk with @utlanow.bsky.social at 11am PST. Sign up here!

The Cost Containment Conundrum Want to know why transit expenses are so high? Look at the history of politics in New York.

Fourth-point-five: Much more on the pension giveaways here -- www.vitalcitynyc.org/why-are-new-...

RESULT: Democrats have flipped this school board seat in Tulsa.

They ousted the conservative board member I wrote about here, who suggested that immigrant children endanger other kids.

And after the Robin DG Kelley talk Thursday, on Saturday, I’ll be doing a book talk with @utlanow.bsky.social at 11am PST. Sign up here!

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Atlanta private school announces sudden closure, citing financial problems Midtown International School leaders said fewer people were applying and more students needed financial aid, putting the private school in an "unsustainable" position.

The Milton Friedman logic of “schools should be like restaurants” means that sometimes a school will randomly close and a whole community wakes up one morning to find their essential infrastructure vanished. Like this school. www.ajc.com/education/20...

school board seats at play tomorrow:

—the Anchorage seat where a candidate said "ban trans kids" & praised Hitler's econ policies
—the lone conservatives left in St. Charles, MO, & Kenosha, WI, which were recently centers of book bans
—the Tulsa incumbent who said immigrant kids endanger others

If you’re at AERA you’d be dumb not to come to this lecture by Robin DG Kelley Thursday night at 6pm.

If you’re at AERA you’d be dumb not to come to this lecture by Robin DG Kelley Thursday night at 6pm.

Introducing: The Seattle Loop We are thrilled to share a sneak peek at the Seattle Loop, a fiscal strategy for generating public money for urgent needs in and beyond the city of Seattle. The Strategy: By establishing …

Introducing: The Seattle Loop

New Nora de la Cour just dropped !

The Right Has a Lofty Vision for Schools. Where’s Ours? The Right is selling a vision of classical education that promises to build character and nurture wonder. Liberals are stuck aiming for higher test scores and employability. Public education defenders need our own inspiring take on the meaning of school.

The Right is selling a vision of classical education that promises to build character and nurture wonder.

Liberals are stuck aiming for higher test scores and employability.

Public education defenders need our own inspiring take on the meaning of school.

Mamdani vs. the Credit Rating Machine Credit Rating Agencies Ruin Debtors’ Lives — and They’re Coming for a City Near You

It’s me writing for @debtcollective.bsky.social about credit ratings and NYC. www.inthered.org/p/mamdani-vs...

Speechless, but also so much to say about this graph. The compulsion cycle of Ed reform is so dense and the subject so variable that education research just isn’t replicated—it’s whoever makes the most noise, generates panic, soothes political-economic nerves. From: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review!

We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

"Another priority for the coalition will be modernizing and decarbonizing schools. Terrence Martin, president of AFT Michigan, discussed the need for upgrades across the state to improve conditions for students, teachers, and staff." www.ilr.cornell.edu/climate-jobs...

A hard look at what's happened in schools with edtech means a hard look at American technophilia, the capitalist push to treat schools like businesses, and persistent myth that schools and teachers are stubbornly stuck in the past.

Hoo boy

Fiscal Democracy | Phenomenal World Lula’s overhaul of the tax system represents a challenge to the Brazilian oligarchy which goes beyond the distributive policies of previous PT governments.

“its current iteration is the most radical to date: combining fiscal expansion with far-reaching tax reforms which take aim at the very structure of Brazilian oligarchy, and seek to replace it with a new model of fiscal democracy.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fis...