I think about this every time I walk or drive past one of the old Denver high schools. We used to build castles to learning for our children.

Went for a walk and accidentally interrupted a raccoon in the act of stealing someone's DoorDash.

How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd.

The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd.

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The only time I actually missed a flight, I was, in fact, traveling with young kids. It was a big deal.

What the difference between a ‘silent e’ and a ‘magic e’ can reveal about effective tutoring Struggling students can get lost when tutoring uses different terminology and approaches from their core classroom instruction. A recent study found students tutored using more-aligned materials made ...

Some students get tutoring but end up as ‘intervention lifers.’ This common sense tactic could help. - via @ericameltzer.bsky.social

#EdResearch #EdPolicy #EduSky

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Can Colorado exclude Catholic preschools from a state program for barring LGBTQ children? Supreme Court to decide. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether private religious schools that accept public dollars can refuse to enroll certain kids based on religious principles.

The next line in evolving church-state case law: Can states require religious schools to abide by nondiscrimination requirements to receive public money? The Supreme Court is taking up a case involving Colorado's universal preschool program. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

Two things are true here.

First, lots of education research is of disturbingly low-quality — and that's a real problem for the field. But second, painting with such a broad brush about a large, intellectually diverse field is not right.

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What really stands out is how Roberts acts based on political and policy concerns, not legal ones. And if the legal concern then was excessive use of executive authority, that does not seem to be the concern driving shadow docket decisions today.

I feel like this started with the law enforcement framing of a "messy divorce." Messy divorce is fighting over retirement plans and cars and the holiday schedule. As a journalist myself, I know blind spots can cause even well-intentioned reporters to miss the big picture. But we have to do better.

Florida’s Billionaires Want More Private Schools. So They’re Building Their Own. New schools founded by the financial elite feature flight simulators and sailboats, while serving up organic Thai food.

How the other 1% lives.

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Denver police swarmed Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn after nearby ShotSpotter alert, lawsuit alleges The city’s ShotSpotter system is a network of sound-detection sensors that pinpoints the location of gunshots and sends alerts to police.

An alert from Denver’s ShotSpotter gunshot-detection system prompted police to swarm a Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn and detain Black partygoers for close to an hour — even though the alert was 20 minutes old, for a neighboring address and was likely triggered by fireworks

Newark lowered the voting age to 16 but students are still learning about their new right New Jersey’s largest city made history by lowering the voting age to 16 for school board elections. But after only 73 teens voted last year, youth organizers are working to boost participation.

New Jersey’s largest city made history by lowering the voting age to 16 for school board elections. But after only 73 teens voted last year, youth organizers are working to boost participation.

Obligatory note that John Eastman was during this time the visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Batra had been to ICE’s field office in Harlingen many times over the years to renew her work permit and to help attorneys with translation. Office staff recognized her as she was being processed. Agents posed for photos with her handcuffed, which they said was for “social media.”

My grandfather z'l once told me society started to go downhill when they let the kids wear dungarees to school, and I think that's about how I sounded to my own kids about the athletic shorts. Athletic shorts are for athletics and housework.

I also think restaurants should be open all the hours they are open. When I was a server, if someone walked in at 9:58, I sat them and I served them. I wasn't going home at 10 anyway.

Now you go in 30 minutes before close and they won't serve you!

I hate pajama day. I think kids should wear actual clothes to school.

I also didn't let my kids wear athletic shorts to school, but that's probably because I was in the Peace Corps.

Colorado pays for lots of homeschool enrichment. Funding cuts and stricter rules may be coming. “My kid goes to public school, and I pay $100 a week for her to go do horseback riding lessons,” said Jessica Capsel, co-chair of the Pro-Colorado Education Project. “But if I homeschooled, the state ...

Colorado has no vouchers, no ESAs, but its homeschool enrichment program raises some of the same questions as tax dollars fund things like horseback riding lessons that public school students would have to pay for. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

Historic LAUSD triple-union strike averted after final agreement with SEIU Local 99

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

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The Trump administration ripped up civil rights agreements. Could it spark a chain reaction for schools? Conservatives say the federal government is finally interpreting Title IX correctly. But some legal experts say tearing up old agreements is not only virtually unprecedented — it could have a chilling...

Terminating civil rights agreements could have ripple effects far beyond those cases or even transgender students as a group. “Once you open that door to something that is unprecedented, where does it end?" one longtime OCR employee asked. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/14/t...

Los Angeles schools avoid a strike as a last-minute deal is reached with staff Los Angeles schools avoided a strike as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal.

Los Angeles schools avoided a strike as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal.

Tennessee House approves voucher program expansion to 35,000 students Some Tennessee Republicans and Democrats argued the new voucher expansion breaks promises made to public school districts last year. House Republicans also quietly slipped in a new amendment that coul...

The voucher expansion that just passed the Tennessee House requires schools to collect SSNs from all students to benefit from a hold harmless provision. It's a backdoor way of tracking immigration status that some Republicans have been trying to pass for 2 years.

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This reminds me of when my son's summer program had to change the No. 1 rule from "Have fun" to "Have fun safely."

I ranted for years about all the people driving on long-expired temp tags. And then I got ticketed for it. It was super cold the day my real plates came, and I planned to do it as soon as it warmed up. And then I just forgot. Boy was that some karma.

Do kids really need a carnivore diet? School lunches are expected to align with a new food pyramid that prioritizes meat. But is that really best for kids and their nutrition?

The new food pyramid could reshape school lunch guidelines. But as @lilyalta.bsky.social reports, an unlikely coalition is calling on the Trump administration not to put kids on the carnivore diet. What kids actually need, they say, is more fiber.

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Rep. Feenstra is getting pushback from fellow conservatives for saying voucher schools should accept everyone.

They call it “overregulation.”

It would directly contradict their whole point for vouchers if private schools couldn’t turn some kids away.

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I seriously love youth sports. It's like ... anything can happen. ANYTHING.

Trump admin has quietly given up on one of its biggest and most controversial moves regarding funding for universities and scientific research (altho few people outside of higher ed paid attention to it)

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‘You don’t have to learn anything to graduate’: Dubious credentials boost Pennsylvania’s graduation rate Philadelphia teachers say they’re incentivized to push students to earn low-value credentials — like a 2-hour online ladder-safety course — by state and district officials who want to see graduation rates continue to climb.

Among the popular "industry credentials" in Philly schools: a 2-hour online ladder safety course that most employers who ask people to climb ladders would be required to offer anyway. Good work by @rebeccaredelmeier.bsky.social on what's going wrong in high school. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...