Very proud of my AASA team for putting together the most comprehensive set of resources on immigration for school district personnel that you can find anywhere. Scroll down to see all the internal and external resources here: www.aasa.org/resources/re...

New AP poll

AASA joined 20 other national organizations in an amicus (friend of the court) brief filed today, in support of the #E-Rate and Universal Service Fund. Read our amicus on the blog. www.aasa.org/resources/bl...

Almost a quarter of Florida's education spending goes to cover the cost of school vouchers that mostly, 70%, go to parents who never had their children enrolled in public schools. bit.ly/4hlTXkq

During the Biden administration, Congress included some money for electric buses and school facilities in its climate change spending package. The Trump administration is already taking steps to curtail those offerings.

Trump takes action to rescind sensitive locations memo which allows ICE to take more aggressive enforcement in schools. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

Super important post on how school-based Medicaid) and all Medicaid funding supporting low-income children is going to be a huge fight this Congress. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/09/h... Educators know you can't have educational equity without healthcare equity.

Today’s Title IX decision has big implications for districts that are following the 2024 Title IX rule. Read what you should do next from the attorney AASA most trusts on Title IX issues Jackie Wernz: educationcivilrights.com/blog/f/its-2...

A paper published in American Educational Research Association lays out the case that Black students across the country in K-12 education are experiencing scholastic punishment far more often than their peers. phys.org/news/2024-12...

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I read Pete Hegseth’s education book so you don’t have to. More later, but he calls: *the true education battle at kindergarten not colleges (consistent w/ Christian Right’s long focus on youth) *voucher tax credits key to Classical Christian schools dominating everywhere

"Findings suggest that incidents involving a greater number of immigration arrests correspond to immediate spikes in student absenteeism, as high as 11% points for certain student demographics." By @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

What's the first and most immediate impact of Trump 2.0 for schools? Immigration. Important piece featuring @AASAHQ president @Supt_Balderas on the panic that will be created if ICE is allowed inside schools & parents can be arrested during drop-off/pickup. apnews.com/article/immi...

Some 7.5 million students required special education services as of the 2022-23 school year, up from 7.1 million in 2018-19. But around 16,000 more special education teachers leave public schools each year than teacher prep programs train to replace them. www.chalkbeat.org/2024/11/20/s... #edusky

A few people have asked me to clarify the Medicaid comment I made earlier, so here's my attempt: The GOP plan is to have Medicaid cuts pay for tax credit voucher programs. Poor kids (40% of enrollees in Medicaid are kids) pay for vouchers for kids already in private school. That's the plan.

Great quote from @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social on the new Admin: "I do think they're going to kind of try to figure out where the path of least resistance is first. Who can they hurt the most, the fastest, without having to actually go through Congress.” www.post-gazette.com/news/educati...

Amazing new tool from PFPS that lets you see the breakdown of public vs private school student demographics in every state: pfps.org/private-and-...

Dodged a bullet with Walters!! At least McMahon attended public schools and served on the CT Board of Education. Maybe she will even be a step up from DeVos?

Reconcilliation #1 & #2 in a nutshell for public education advocates: Republican leadership use reconcilliation #1 to fund private school vouchers (to subsidize the education of 70% of students already attending private schools) and pay for it via reconcilliation #2....

And in case fighting vouchers isn't fun enough, it looks like Republicans want to try and block-grant Medicaid again which would doom school-based Medicaid programs: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/11/18/c...