The World Will Be Watching #No Kings on March 28 - It’s no secret that Victor Orban and Donald Trump are fans of each other, share a disdain for democracy, and enable grift on a massive scale in their respective governments. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Audrey Watters: Who Benefits from AI? Not You. - The recent push for “AI” is yet another grandiose and grotesque experiment on children – one that no one asked for and few want. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/23/a... via @dianeravitch #EdTech

Thomas Ultican #Buddhism - www.amazon.com/Nichiren-Ope...

Over the past 40 years, the evidence against retaining students gets stronger showing no benefit and serious harm. tultican.com/2026/03/22/g... #EducationMatters

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The Pentagon Buys a Flute - Why does everything in federal spending look like a grift these days? teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/03/21/t... via @nancyflanagan #SickPolitics

Craig Harris: Taxpayer-funded school vouchers used for Disneyland trips and international travel. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization

The majority of published studies and decades of research indicate that there is little to be gained, and much harm being done when retaining students. tultican.com/2026/03/22/g... #EducationMatters

TX: A New Center Tracks Vouchers - It is a great new tool for taxpayers and parents. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization

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ICYMI: Maple Syrup Edition (3/22) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

Grade Retention: The Debate Had Its Day, Now End It! - It is an idea that sounded needed but it is not. It just harms students. go.shr.lc/4d3fBuR via @shareaholic #Reading

Josh Cowen testified to the Texas House about vouchers and managed to predict a few things about the Texas taxpayer-funded voucher program. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization

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Braun embraces far-right Turning Point USA - Indiana became the eighth state in recent months to partner with Turning Point to promote high school groups. inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/b... #Propaganda

Cesar Chavez vs Ronald Reagan? - Resubjugation of women falls squarely in the ‘war on woke’ just as these two men came of age in a backward era. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Culture

Florida: Sociology Professors Rebel Against Censorship of Their Field dianeravitch.net/2026/03/20/f... via @dianeravitch #censorship

Norms vs. Standards - Norm referencing is great if you want to sort students, teachers and schools into winners and losers. It is lousy if you want to know how well students, teachers and schools are actually doing. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

Update on Lakewood Public Schools Takeover - District faces fiscal crisis caused by state and federal mandates. reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/u... #EducationMatters

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NE: Trying To Get Vouchers Past Voters - Vouchers never win when voters have a chance to be heard. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization

Podcaster and author Jennifer Berkshire looks at the rising backlash against ed tech and the curious collective amnesia accompanying it. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EdTech

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An Exceptional Dying Democracy (Can Be Saved) - The US rate of decline is comparable to some coups d´états.’ With San Diego's weekly resistance calendar. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Resistance

Heather Cox Richardson Interviews Josh Cowen about Vouchers - The voucher movement has turned into a means of building a society that sustains the white Christian nationalism of its funders. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/19/h... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

The Century Foundation: The Federal Voucher Program is a Hoax and a Fraud dianeravitch.net/2026/03/19/t... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

April 1st: Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Arguments on Trump’s Exec. Order to Deny Birthright Citizenship janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/b... via @janresseger #CivilRights

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The False Promise of Education "Miracles" and Misunderstanding Standardized Test Scores - These miracles are all part of the scam to make money and build careers. open.substack.com/pub/paulthom... #EducationMatters

The Trump Era's Furious Fascists, Putrid Propositions, and Revised Reports - They are coming for reproductive freedom. They are coming for voting rights. They are coming for LGBTQ+ equality. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Jennifer Berkshire: The Collapsing Dream of Ed-Tech in the Schools - Teachers struggled with large class sizes, obsolete textbooks, and low pay, but the buzz was all too often focused on the latest magical reform. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/18/j... via @dianeravitch #EdTech

ProPublica Documents Conflicts of Interest among Trump Cabinet Members - They are releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/18/p... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

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Federal Judge Orders Reinstatement of 1,000 Employees of Voice of America dianeravitch.net/2026/03/18/f... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

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Arkansas: Federal Judge Bans Display of 10 Commandments in Public Schools - U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks ruled the law violates the Establishment Clause and the free exercise rights of the plaintiffs. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/17/a... via @dianeravitch #ChurchAndState

The Mystery of Eighth Grade Test Results - They are old enough to recognize bologna and immature enough act against it. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

Makayla Janssen wrote this op-ed for the Campus Chronicle, the campus student newspaper for Des Moine Area Community College. In it, she looks at the spreading book banning in Iowa. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Censorship

No One Wants to Aid Trump's Iran War - The world increasingly holds America in contempt. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #IranWar‌

This Week in Fascism: Muzzling the Media and Gearing Up to Undermine the Midterms - The state now sees itself as an arbiter of truth willing to discipline those it deems to have committed a thought crime. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Diverse Religious Groups in Texas Unite to Oppose Religion in Public Schools - Texas legislature, funded by white Christian nationalists, is trying to turn the state’s public schools into Christian indoctrination centers. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/17/d... #ChurchAndState

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Public School Funding Keeps Dropping across U.S., but Ohio Public School Finance Is Especially Precarious - Funding of public schooling is a sad reminder of the lack of wisdom exhibited in America. janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/p... via @janresseger #EducationMatters

The More Reforms Change - The attack on public education is quite old on the right. Milton Friedman's 1955 essay showing the way to defeat integration is an early example. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

Hot! Hot! Hot! Climate Change Might Not Be in the News, But It’s Very Real - Data from Scripps Oceanography and NOAA links this marine heatwave to climate change. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #ClimateCrisis

Public High School Student IN New Jersey Scores Perfect 1600 on SAT - He went to public schools in West Orange, New Jersey. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/16/p... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters