If you need help explaining to people what the Department of Education does and why it matters, this, from Ben Miller (hosted by @mattyglesias.bsky.social) is as good as it gets open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

Academia is pretty bad at solidarity. I think the culture is one of many individuals who may happen to share building space, but rarely that those people are ever part of a team working toward shared goals - even within a single department, there is often a sense of many individuals, no whole.

In Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina DACA recipients will lose access to public higher education if DACA goes away. In Arkansas, Idaho, Maine and Ohio, DACA recipients will lose in-state tuition if DACA goes away.

Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place. go.bsky.app/PixwBrM