yay! now do Sligo Avenue

Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas. (The link preview is bad, but it's: Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)

The average MCPS school building is nearly 30 years old — and it shows. When pipes burst or mold grows, our students and teachers pay the price. I’ve asked the Board of Education to hold another public hearing on the Capital Improvements Program so more voices can be heard.

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

ok, now do MoCo! :)

We have some ideas in our forthcoming book #SchoolsforSale, based on what happened over the past 10+ years in PHL. Book drops in June 2026 + available for pre-order now. We are open to talk to folks organizing, in school districts, and cities about our recs. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.

Color me surprised. Or not.

The ghost of William Whyte hates this trend. You should, too.

#Cities across the United States need additional #housing to support their growing populations and address increasing housing costs. Aging #libraries could provide a solution. Explore more in this new Urban Wire article.

Drivers have killed or injured at least 3 children/youth in as many months in Montgomery County. When will @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social and its DOT step up to make evidence-based infrastructure changes that we know work to save lives?! @evanmglass.bsky.social

When we talk about safe routes to school, we need to think about the various definition of safety and what mobility justice actually looks like for all students/families.

"Out of this disruption, there is an opportunity to build new, more resilient networks for research, collaboration, and public impact—networks that are insulated from political winds and grounded in shared commitments to scientific integrity, justice, and the public good." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

I'm excited to be presenting on research from my forthcoming book, Schools for Sale: Disinvestment, Dispossession, and School Building Reuse in Philadelphia on Nov 7th ata the APA Public Schools and Communities Division School Planning Summit! lnkd.in/eYxCPTtH @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social

I'm reading a history of the US Postal Service and learned that Wells Fargo has been exploiting people for profit since its inception: In 1852, "its customers paid twice for their mail, but in a state with little gov't delivery, they didn't have a choice."

Maybe cities should restrict driving to essential trips on Halloween

Career opportunity: The Terner Center is seeking a Senior Research Associate to help advance the understanding and expansion of innovative and industrialized construction methods to improve and expand housing delivery. Please help us spread the word: ow.ly/4g2O50WYgKK

Take a look! 'Reading Rainbow' is back www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

Excited about this. Like that gerrymandering board game but for school boundaries.

I'm very proud to share a new, first-of-its-kind analysis and data tool from my team at @educationwork.newamerica.org. Redrawing the Lines is a first-ever look at how, if states draw school district borders with equity as the goal, they can HUGELY reduce funding inequality and segregation. #edusky

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social's latest in the Chronicle - on welcoming AI critics to the table when deliberating on policy - is spot on: www.chronicle.com/article/some...

Why are parents carrying so much of the burden of the delivery of public goods - clean air, public education, healthy kids and teachers. These are policy and budgetary choices not forgone conclusions.

My article in @shelterforce.bsky.social has been turned into a "podcast"! (Really it's just me reading my article, but I'm excited nonetheless.)

Some days the biggest threat to my family’s ability to get to school safely on foot or bike is the behavior of some parents who drive. It scares me that these drivers are willing to drive so unsafely at their own kids’ school, where they are likely to know the families they’re threatening. 3/3

Request - who would be a good guest speaker for my class who can talk about New York's congestion pricing? Maybe even two different folks if needed, one more on the technical aspects and stats, and one who can speak to the policy and politics side. Please let me know if this is you & please share!

Ask: I'm hoping to find someone to talk to a graduate-level planning class on traffic signal plans, with an emphasis on #pedestrian and #bicycle mobility and #safety* *actual safety, not traffic-flow-but-lets-call-it-safety Grateful for suggestions! @bikesky.social #BikeSky #WalkSky #VisionZero

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

"A bus ride of less than one hour and no missed class time is a basic educational right." This is not true in the legal/moral public ed's structure. As I said recently, “We need to advocate for public education, and the access to that education, as fundamental rights." today.umd.edu/in-u-s-the-j...

I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

I’ve lived my entire life hearing people argue in favor of privatization. I have yet to see privatization make anything better. The only thing privatization accomplishes is to remove accountability.

It's great that states are forming regional public health alliances to ensure people still have access to vaccines. They should take it one step further & include distributing free masks & tests, installing clean air infrastructure etc. The best way to prevent outbreaks is with layered protections!

School closures are not a guarantee of cost savings, but they do exacerbate harm, especially in Black and Brown communities. Thanks to @blythebernhard.bsky.social at @stltoday.com for including me in your story on the unfolding crisis in your city. www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...

A little coverage at UMD of my work on mobility justice and school travel. @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social today.umd.edu/in-u-s-the-j...

On this Labor Day, let's remember that today isn't likely to offer a respite for those--disproportionately women, and especially women of color, immigrant women, and low-income women--who do the unpaid and underpaid labor of care. In fact, that labor may even be greater on days "off" like today. 1/🧵

Happy Labor Day! And gratitude to the workers who keep the country running and food on our tables.

NCES Tables: Rescues in Progress www.datarescueproject.org/nces-tables/

Still think families with kids don’t want to live downtown? They will, if you actually plan for them. Downtown Vancouver’s 3rd elementary school is opening this fall in Coal Harbour. 3 storeys, 340 capacity (should’ve been more), homes/daycare above. 7300+ kids (0-14) in downtown peninsula (2021).

“housing providers” is a type of Orwellian doublespeak intended to euphemize the landlord-tenant relationship and to obscure...it elides the basic extractive nature of landlording, the fact that landlords expect, in fact, rely upon the relationship to be monetarily profitable to them."

People think they have amazing stories about ChatGPT. And they tell them all the time. You just don’t register them as amazing if you are a normal ish adult human being because it’s mid shit like, “it told me to eat brisket!” or “it wrote twenty emails no one wants!”

With CPB funding being cut, now is a good time to support independent and nonprofit media. Your local public radio station will need your help and support. If you believe in public media, consider donating to your local station. Find it here: cpb.org/cpb-station-...

New paper by colleagues at @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social @urbaninstitute.bsky.social and Toole Design!

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

From @clintsmithiii.bsky.social's book, Counting Descent. #poem #books #writing

Timeline cleanser Hike and Bike trail. Davis, California

My students bring me joy: "What surprised me most was how much possibility lives in place. Even in neighborhoods marked by disinvestment, there is creativity, resilience, and vision. The challenge is not whether potential exists—it’s whether our systems are designed to recognize and build upon it."

You know who hates our system of public education? People who don't like the idea of democracy; people ideologically opposed to taxation; people who think that freedom *to* is more important than freedom *from*; people who believe that our unequal society is proof of natural hierarchies.

“It didn’t feel right to start jumping into the next chapter without acknowledging the past, and allowing space for closure..." a Celebration of Life...will “provide closure, and also cleanse the ground a bit before moving into its next iteration.” www.archpaper.com/2025/05/scou...

May I offer anyone lamenting the state of your institution today some wise words from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ?