It's Time to Vote for Prop 50, California - Getting the MAGA quislings out of Congress is a necessary first step. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #RealPolitics

A Move Toward Establishing Thought Crime With Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 - We have reached what many have feared—an Orwellian reality. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Curtis Yarvin is Engaging in Two Debates at Yale - Yarvin’s anti-democratic views demonstrate how extremist key members of the Republican Party have become. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/07/c... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

To Ensure They Qualify for Federal Research Grants, Trump Demands Universities Sign a Compact Declaring Loyalty to His Agenda - To get a grant, you need to not demonstrate merit, just ideological fealty. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t... via @janresseger #SickPolitics

Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen: Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That’s why we’re suing - If by harming you mean destroy their schools, well yeah. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization

MS: Pushing for Privatization - School choice works? It’s pretty to think so, but that’s not what the evidence says. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization

If the Governor of #Maryland request assistance in removing a domestic terrorist in the #Whitehouse can all the states send their national guard to #WashingtonDC to purge the traitors from congress & this Administration.. #IMPEACHTRUMP #DEPORTmikejohnson #PurgeMAGA #TakeourgovernmentBack #BLUECREW

Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding - More unhinged policies from the want-to-be dictator in the Whitehouse. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/t... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

ICE Incites in Chicago & Portland - The feeling that the America they loved is gone is pervasive. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time - An important post. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/j... via @dianeravitch #HealthyPolitics

Learn4Life and its related partner, Lifelong Learning, reap millions from schools with little transparency. Looks like another A3 type swindle of state education dollars. enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/art... #Privatization

No, Trump Can't Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes - Sending troops into American cities is not to be done without significant proof of insurrection or invasion. He is not a king. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/05/n... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

ICYMI: Applefest 25 Edition (10/5) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. substack.com/app-link/pos... #EducationMatters

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools? - Just who wants us on this one? Well, scammers. And the folks who turned DEI into something to be avoided. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/03/h... via @nancyflanagan #EdTech

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b... #EducationMatters

Artificial What Now? - Since AI is as much over-hyped baloney as reality and 50% of Wall Street Profiting is now based on it, what happens when the public figures out the scam? open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EdTech

Ashana Birgard and Elizabeth Jeffers: Twenty Years After Katrina, the City’s All-Charter Schools System Is Failing Many Families networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is poised to accelerate the privatization of the nation’s school systems — and private equity aims to cash in. Big Ugly bill brings federal school vouchers. jacobin.com/2025/10/priv... #Privatization

The First Review of My New Book! - My copy is supposed to arrive today. Best wishes for the success of your book. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/t... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

The First Review of My New Book! - My copy is supposed to arrive today. Best wishes for the success of your book. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/t... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Charlie Kirk and the Mainstreaming of His Hateful Ideology - This treatment is authorizing the idea that white supremacy and racism are not radical positions, but a legitimate ones. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/n... via @dianeravitch #Si

"Reinventing Education for the Age of AI" (or Building a Better MOOC) - Since AI is just algorithms and salesmanship, what happens when the public catches up to the scam? open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EdTech

The GOP's Shameful Attack on Public Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/10/02/t... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

Jennifer Berkshire: The New Orleans Hoax Rises Again - An important part of the story is local activist Ashana Bigard dianeravitch.net/2025/10/02/j... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

Turning Up the Heat on ICE - San Diego's weekly updated resistance calendar. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Resistance

I Am Anti-Fascist. - When a government kidnaps people off the streets, takes them away without a warrant, and imprisons them without a trial, that’s fascism. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/02/i... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

Ohio's State Investment in Public School Funding Continues to Decline: Erodes Adequacy and Equity -To reduce property taxes and fully fund the state’s public schools, Ohio must raise its contribution. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o... via @janresseger #EducationMatters

Quantico Wasn’t a Meeting, It Was a Warning cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/01/q... #SickPolitics

Military Leaders Endure Administration Insanity - It was a shit show. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

FL: Anti-Woke College Not Working Out So Well - New School costing the state a lot and continuously losing students. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization

Trump Administration Plans Ban on All Federal Grants to Harvard...or Are They Close to a Deal? - Authoritarian administration makes little sense. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/01/t... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

Moral Clarity in the Classroom - If there ever were a subject that requires moral clarity, truth-telling and purpose, it would be the study of our nation’s history, government and values. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/09/29/m... via @nancyflanagan #EducationMatters

At Del Mar Union, girls are outperforming boys in math. It’s not the result other school districts are seeing. inewsource.org/2025/09/29/d... via @inewsource #EducationMatters

Diane’s new book, charter scandals, and more… networkforpubliceducation.org/29384-2/ #EducationMatters

201 Ohio school districts today have student populations 90% or more of whom qualify as economically disadvantaged. In 2005, before Ed Choice vouchers, The number was 5 school districts. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization

Leonie Haimson: Mamdani vs. Cuomo vs. Sliwa for Mayor of New York City - Just vote for the Democrat in this election. Cuomo is corrupt and Sliwa is in over his head. dianeravitch.net/2025/09/30/l... via @dianeravitch #Politics

A More Than a Shutdown Standoff - AI spending is said to be driving economic growth overall, with estimates as high as 50% of GDP this year. dianeravitch.net/2025/09/30/t... via @dianeravitch #EdTech @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

The False Promise of Digital "Learning" - Learning is not a commercial transaction. Childhood is not a market opportunity. dianeravitch.net/2025/09/30/t... via @dianeravitch #EdTech

Trump Admin. Quietly Accelerates Cancellation of Federal Education Grants Said to Promote D.E.I. - All right-wing political baloney all the time. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t... via @janresseger #SickPolitics

Fox News Fans the Flames in Portland - The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall, and people were eating your pets in Ohio. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

David Pepper: A Publicly Funded School System, With Zero Accountability To the Public - He has some serious doubts about Ohio’s voucher system. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization

Trump Plans to Award Research Grants to Universities That Endorse His Values - Speaking for myself, I wholeheartedly support diversity, equity, and inclusion. I resent Trump’s hypocritical use of anti-Semitism. dianeravitch.net/2025/09/29/t... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

Senate Bill S338 is “Our Bill”—The Strategies Used By NCTQ to Control How Children are Taught to Read in Massachusetts Public Schools And Every State in the Nation - It is billionaire driven and bad for kids. open.substack.com/pub/teaching... #Privatizaion

Success Academy Is Opening "No Excuses" Charters in Florida - Somehow Success Academy of Florida are a fit unless you care about public education. Co-location is an abomination. dianeravitch.net/2025/09/29/s... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

An example of billionaire driven propaganda undermining public schools. tultican.com/2025/09/29/b... #Privatization

The story of another clueless billionaire trying to lead America's education. tultican.com/2025/09/29/b... #Privatization

Misunderstanding Mississippi's Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform - The Mississippi mirage. radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/27/m... via @plthomasEdD #ScienceOfReading