Looks good www.mobilize.us/raceforward/...

School districts basically never default but generally speaking if it’s not on your bingo card these days then it def should be.

I'm torn between being absolutely enraged & wanting to see inside one last time... 😡💔St. Louis Public Schools votes to demolish three vacant schools | STLPR share.google/59616Md1KBbs...

Thank glob someone’s writing about this bullshit www.claspblog.org/blogposts/fi...

Lotsa numbers here. One that’s standing out is that charter enrollment doubled from 6% of NYC students to 12 in the last ten years. Publics when from 74% to 68%. cbcny.org/research/com...

It’s me wearing pink at the @dissentmag.bsky.social event for Know Your Enemy and @mikeduncan.bsky.social my face is doing something a little weird

I don’t think this will become law but it’s worth keeping close tabs on it. When @robertkelchen.com said a few years ago he thought a Republican congress might consider getting rid of student loans altogether I thought it was nuts. Well it may be nuts but it’s a live possibility.

Wow enrollment is up at CUNY and SUNY where there’s free tuition programs whodathunk

Last chance to register for ELC’s 17th annual Education Justice Lecture tomorrow, June 3, at 3pm ET! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I voted for the bond markets

We could’ve had a green new deal for schools, but no, we get this

Yes! www.change.org/p/rename-the...

I’m now hearing that Rollins was on Zohran’s inauguration committee. I’m not crying you’re crying!

Found out from neighbors in my building that Sonny Rollins, who just died, used to live in our coop in north Brooklyn. Here’s a picture with his German Shepherd in our parking lot c. 1972.

Every time I pick up As Public as Possible by @schooldaves.bsky.social I learn something that stops me in my tracks. Philadelphia spent $3.65 BILLION in debt service over 30 years. That’s tax money going to Wall Street instead of students, but that’s how the system says schools should do it.

“The dynamic is fascinating and worth following: Notwithstanding the thumbs-down from municipal labor leaders in sympathy with the teachers, many parents who stand to benefit from the federal aid are members of these very unions.” www.vitalcitynyc.org/hochul-trump...

I just don’t think pension debt is a thing. Contributions are self-imposed amounts calculated through speculation. This isn’t debt. I don’t owe my future self in the same way I owe the mortgage bank, eg. Projecting that framework is hurtful category mistake justifying unnecessary austerity.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

And def want to read “The Poetics of the Tax-Form / Michael Denning” the contribution in this collection www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

Looks good press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This is gonna be cool! And I helped a little! tr.ee/vXMdbJmqCu

The expert framing matters because the numbers without context are inert. When someone translates funding data into what it means for classrooms, the abstraction disappears. The analysis becomes a tool, not an observation.

My book hasn’t gotten very many reviews and it’s not on any lists but a slate of school board candidates in Minneapolis are reading it and it’s helping them think through what to do. I have this unrequited crush on the mainstream modes of approval but this is pretty good.

Have been really loving reading David Backer's As Public As Possible to learn more about the complex world of education funding & discussing with other public school advocates, community members, and fellow school board candidates @christin-with-mpls.bsky.social and @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social. 💙📙🩵

Some of us MPS board candidates, caregivers, & educators are reading “As Public As Possible” together; it’s sparking so many ideas! I cannot recommend David Backer’s book enough. Hear him on the “Have You Heard” pod here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... & here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

I’m doing a series at my newsletter on “The Law of Green Fiscal Mutualism,” where I consider the legal dimensions of green banks derisking tracker pension purchase of local school bonds. Here’s the second installment. buttondown.com/davidibacker...

Cool new issue of Philosophical Inquiry in Education focusing on the concept of public in public education pie.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/pi...

Super excited and honored to have @advaitarun.bsky.social excellent review of my book in the new issue of @dissentmag.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/article/publ...

It turns out that the bonds NYC needs to sell on Wall Street for its school buildings get lower credit ratings, making them more expensive. Why does the debt state want toxic schools??

This is very cool! You should go! actionnetwork.org/events/green...

Really really thrilled that my review of @schooldaves.bsky.social's "As Public As Possible" was adapted and published in @dissentmag.bsky.social for their America at 250 summer issue! Let's go to bat for the public education system: dissentmagazine.org/article/publ...

Super excited and honored to have @advaitarun.bsky.social excellent review of my book in the new issue of @dissentmag.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/article/publ...

So much for the neofascist idea that keeping women out of universities would make any difference to birth rates. It’s people without degrees that are having fewer kids. Free college = increased birth rate?

“smoothing out a bizarre feature of the city’s pension payment schedule instituted in 2010, which had required accelerating payments through to fiscal year 2032, at which point the payments would turn negative and the pension funds would return money to the City over a seven-year period.”

Eggsistential

Looks good tupress.temple.edu/books/the-hi...

There’s a trot writing detail school finance reports on Jersey and I’m here for it www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Wayne Au’s dad was a physicist turned revolutionary communist theorist and cadre. This a book he published! www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-C...

Discoarse

NYSPD literally throwing away sidewalk seller flowers on Mother’s Day outside Roosevelt Ave subway, why??

EXCLUSIVE: A Long Island school district has settled a lawsuit with a former student for $125k after they erased her artwork in the school parking lot of a watermelon and a keffiyeh, both symbols of Palestinian solidarity. But what she really wanted—a public apology—ultimately eluded her. My story:

No. It’s not that Dem govs are listening to the voucher lobby. It’s that the tax credit is *already* national for adult donors no matter what governors do. The question for governors is whether to send those adult donations to kids out of state or keep the $$ in state.

I'm writing something about public pension funds & data centers & risk -- this total mess strengthens my goal to get elected to the MA PRIM Board! have a friend who works for MA state government? Pls send them to my website so that they can vote before May 22nd!! lenorepalladino.me

“You fight the snake in the room you have reserved for your defense. The fight generally starts after you have finished answering questions about your thesis. However, the snake will be lurking in the room the whole time and it can strike at any point.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

I was on library’s podcast zetforward.podbean.com/e/episode-17...

Love a good tax the rich canvass actionnetwork.org/events/tax-t...

Wow so cool, I didn't know these ppl were out there philosophyineurope.org/upcoming-eve...

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

Still pissed about this www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pdcuuX/