More background on one teacher's fightback against the racist religious bigots who run Idaho. @palan57.bsky.social: Sarah Inama Takes Idaho To Court curmudgucation.substack.com/p/sarah-inam...

As I explain in my book The Privateers: While he was going after Clinton, Ken Starr was running legal strategy for all pro-voucher, anti-public school litigation in the 90s and the first SCOTUS case in 2002. His time was paid by the right-wing Bradley Foundation. baylorlariat.com/2026/02/11/j...

Tennessee House panel kills private-school voucher transparency bill tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/11/t...

Other Democratic governors are wary of new Trump school funding program. Not Polis. coloradonewsline.com/2026/02/11/o...

Teachers at this Philadelphia charter just voted to unionize Union recognition was hard fought — the school's administration declined to voluntarily recognize the Esperanza High School Collective. share.inquirer.com/DpGDBx?utm_s... via @phillyinquirer

1. Internal documents reveal that Freedom 250, which purports to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary, is a vehicle to promote Trump and "America First" propaganda, including election conspiracies Major corporations like Mastercard and Deloitte and spending million to bankroll this effort

We Need To Talk About The Carolina Coup. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

The TN GOP doesn't want its constituents to know that most of the vouchers they are paying for are going to the affluent who already had their kids in private school and that what they said about what vouchers would do -- give parents "choice" -- was a lie.

Actually he’s going to give that money to himself to settle lawsuits he filed against his own government. l.smartnews.com/p-78fJt6hi/b...

How Pennsylvania’s Charter School Funding Formula Works bensalemweekly.com/how-pa-chart... via @bensalemweekly

On @retractionwatch.com. I'm glad they wrote this, except for the part about being furious that they needed to.

'A court that refuses to reverse a constitutional violation because reversal would be disruptive has announced that any violation succeeds as long as the violator moves fast enough.' #NorthCarolina #Beware cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

Do you want churches to run public schools? The Right is pushing new court cases to do just that. My latest newsletter walks through it open.substack.com/pub/joshcowe...

The Feds Push School Prayer open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

Will School Choice Kill Athletics? open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

In response to Iowa's vague & punitive "age appropriate" school materials law in 2023, schools immediately removed over 3,000 books. Of the most-removed: 6 center Black American experiences 7 center experiences of women 2 are dystopian critiques of authoritarianism 1 is antiwar/militarism

Michigan Repubs are just fine with Trump shutting off bridge to Canada. Praise his deal-making prowess. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

There has always been school choice. What choicers are really pushing is taxpayer-subsidized school choice.

"If you 'know what time it is,' you understand the hour is late and you’re prepared to do whatever it takes. It gives carte blanche for total ruthlessness in politics because you understand the stakes." @lkatfield.bsky.social talks to @inthesetimes.com about her brilliant new book, Furious Minds.

The SAVE Act is a literal poll tax for married women who changed their last name.

People: we want fewer forced ads and shit that works Tech companies: oh you want more forced ads and more broken shit, coming right up 😀

A Small Town newspaper that did the most important investigative journalism during the industrial age to close open.substack.com/pub/salenazi...

YouTube: House Democratic Policy Committee Hearing on Cyber Charter Reform February 9, 2026 Runtime 1:24 www.youtube.com/live/ReSSPyp... via @YouTube

Students Unite! open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

President Trump’s allies are offering access to him and other perks to donors who give at least $1 million to a new group supporting flashy initiatives he is planning around the nation’s 250th birthday, according to documents and interviews. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/u...

Big Lies of Education: Miracle Schools radicalscholarship.com/2026/01/29/b... @palan57.bsky.social

Re: the right-wing celebrations coming out of Texas on voucher application opening day: There are generally three kinds of private schools in state voucher systems:

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get … tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.

Behind every teacher who's failing at her job is an administrator who isn't doing his.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

"I find robust evidence that moratoriums [on fraternities] decrease alcohol offenses by 26 percent. Additionally, I find suggestive evidence that moratoriums decrease reports of sexual assault on the weekends by 29 percent." [FYI I was in a fraternity] jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/1...

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Y’all, I’m losing my mind over here. I need everyone to read this article. I can’t go it alone!!! “Epstein argues that teaching children to write may be harmful because writing forces “linear” and “narrow” patterns of thinking, whereas the greatest thinkers never wrote.”

so called autonomous vehicles still rely on human input futurism.com/advanced-tra...

When "Parental Rights" Become a Shield for Child Abuse open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Ramaswamy’s proposed rule for public schools highlights Ohio’s lack of rules for private schools ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/02/r...

Miracle Children: When A School Is Too Good To Be True www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Oklahoma board expected to deny bid for Jewish charter school, invite lawsuit www.the74million.org/article/okla...

Legislative Extortion bill would withhold more than $4.3 billion from 700,000 Ohio public school students open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...

I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous theconversation.com/i-used-ai-ch...

"A deliberate effort to circumvent the law" open.substack.com/pub/otherdut...

OH: Legislature Considers Extortion and Revenge Against Public Schools open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

CURMUDGUCATION: OH: Legislature Considers Extortion and Revenge Against Public Schools curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2026/02/oh-l...

Under Stephen Miller’s model immigration blueprint to be tested in Tennessee, public schools would be required to verify immigration status of students and report undocumented.