New article out in Educational Administration Quarterly! I examine why LAUSD's school board struggled to remove school police after George Floyd's murder, even while acknowledging racial harm. I introduce "abolitionist infrastructure" as a path forward. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In SEGREGATION AND SCHOOL FUNDING, @mattdicarlo.bsky.social and @schoolfinance101.bsky.social reveal the cycle that keeps resource-starved schools at a perpetual disadvantage and show how to break it. Find out more in our Spring 2026 catalog: https://bit.ly/4obkP9M

I got the chance to weigh in: www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at our Centre in Paris, starting on 1 Sept 2026. The post is in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. Application deadline 19 Feb 2026. Click below for further particulars & how to apply.

AEFP is expanding our conference subsidies program to offer financial assistance to a broader membership base so that more researchers, policymakers & practitioners have the opportunity to connect at the conference. The deadline to apply is January 5, 2026 aefpweb.org/conferen...

Honored to have Dr. Givens on NEPC Talks Ed. His new book, American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation, boldly recenters Indigenous and Black Americans in the origin story of American K-12 schooling.

Utah Repeals Ban on Collective Bargaining for Teachers and Other Workers: Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.

Really looking forward to this event. www.wisconsinnetwork.org/events/prese...

Additionally, an analysis by @cmsaldana.bsky.social shows that fiscal austerity leads to cuts in spending and decreases in outcomes for students: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

MY BOOK IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY! Here’s a press release, but you can also DM me if you want copies, interviews, etc. www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com

Come learn about where to find and how to use Detroit education data—from early childhood to K-12 to higher ed!

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Really looking forward to this event. www.wisconsinnetwork.org/events/prese...

Check this out. Looking forward to it. www.wisconsinnetwork.org/events/prese...

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

"Although the goal of educational preserves in cities and rural areas would be the same (protecting public education), the negative consequences they address might vary. In urban communities, the focus might be on preventing choice from shutting down public schools in certain neighborhoods."

So-called “education preserves” would protect rural communities at risk of losing their public schools to school choice sprawl. @drprestongreen.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social @schoolfinance101.bsky.social bit.ly/48oNmUy

Please share this opportunity with any grad students or early-career scholars interested in rural higher education The National Rural Higher Education Research Center at MDRC is now taking applications for the first cohort of the Rural Research Mentorship Network www.mdrc.org/work/project...

"Although the goal of educational preserves in cities and rural areas would be the same (protecting public education), the negative consequences they address might vary. In urban communities, the focus might be on preventing choice from shutting down public schools in certain neighborhoods."

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... Bloomberg is hiring an education beat reporter!

The work of school board members has never been more complex. It was a joy learning from Drs. Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth about their work on school boards. If you have a few minutes, give it a listen!

In this month's NEPC Talks Education podcast, Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth discuss the unprecedented challenges facing California school board members and how they navigate today's complex political landscape @juliemarsh.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/3X2Att2

I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...

What little federal money is allocated to proven educational programs is slowly disappearing under the Trump admin.

Nominations for AEFP awards are due on December 5, 2025 by 11:59 pm PST ! Learn more and apply here: aefpweb.org/awards

This ‘Christian public school’ in Colorado could spur a fight over religion in education www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

Co-chairing a search for an early career higher education faculty member. If you or a student of yours is on the market let me know! DMs open, etc

"Violent arrests, dangerous detentions & prolonged incarceration show that the purposeful criminalizing of immigrants and Black folks is not only harmful to adults but also traumatizes children" this piece was created to archive the harms so we cannot turn away www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

It was an honor to interview @dlabaree.bsky.social for this month’s @nepc.bsky.social podcast. I’ve learned so much from Professor Labaree’s writing, and it was a real treat to learn from him through our conversation about recent shifts in education policy. If you have a few mins, give it a listen!

NEPC Talks Education: This month's podcast explores the challenges of navigating education's competing goals, with @cmsaldana.bsky.social and @dlabaree.bsky.social bit.ly/3KUg2vs

A nice write-up on an article I co-authored: ghost.edandclass.com/rural-school...

Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions. Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.

This work is super important! These great scholars’ suggestions for rural schools would also help protect Indian Education in BIE schools by association, which account for approximately 10% of all Native students & are under attack by a 2025 E.O. intent on introducing vouchers for BIE students.

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

David Berliner passed away yesterday morning. He was incredibly kind, smart & funny, w/a deep sense of what’s right. Last month, facing his illness, he told me he really wanted people to read his personal essays abt schls & democracy - a new book that's reviewed here: edrev.asu.edu/index.php/ER...

This article, which will be published in Idaho Law Review, explains how states can save endangered rural school districts from voucher and charter school expansion. Specifically, this article argues that states can define rural districts as "education preserves." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

School choice poses a unique threat to rural schools and districts. In this article (led by Dr. Preston Green and in collaboration with Drs. Bruce Baker and Julie Mead), we offer a potential solution. (Forthcoming in the Idaho law review). @drprestongreen.bsky.social @schoolfinance101.bsky.social

It’s always an honor to learn from Kevin Welner and Robert Kim. In this month’s NEPC Talks Education podcast, Kevin and Robert discuss a (rapidly) changing federal K-12 education policy landscape. If you have a few minutes, give it a listen! @nepc.bsky.social @edlawcenter.bsky.social

New publication: Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters (forthcoming, Idaho Law Review) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Apropos nothing, check out how much debt service and pension contributions have increased as a share of expenditures for NYC schools since 2008.

Excited to announce the call for papers for the inaugural MidSouth Education Policy Workshop, October 16-17, in Lexington, KY! Send us your abstracts on all things econ of ed & ed policy by 8/27. Grad students & early career folks especially welcome! Info & link to submit here: bit.ly/44TdiGf

In the past 3 weeks, how many hours did state and district leaders spend frantically re-arranging budgets, contracts, and staffing plans to address the budget uncertainty? Did that improve student outcomes? What a ridiculous waste of scarce resources.

This thoughtful review by @shannapeeples.bsky.social provides a vital reminder of the hope we must recapture -- hope we felt while learning about these wonderful Schools of Opportunity. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social @katesomerville.bsky.social @michellevalladares.bsky.social @wileyke.bsky.social ‪‪

Come and work in a fantastic department at UBC. 👇 ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjo...

Legal experts weigh in on the implications of the 2025 Supreme Court term for K-12 education www.brookings.edu/articles/leg...

Head Start programs receive 0.18% of the total federal budget. This translates to $12.3 billion out of a $6.8 trillion federal budget. This isn't about closing federal deficits, it's about being cruel and challenging constitutional precedent protecting undocumented kids. www.wpr.org/news/new-tru...

Chicago Public Schools lays off more than 1,450 staff www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...