A high school student sued her state for a better education. Hear from Luisa Sanchez, plaintiff in Kentucky Student Voice Team v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, & civic ed expert Michael Rebell in this month's NEPC Talks Education podcast. @cmsaldana.bsky.social @kystuvoiceteam.bsky.social bit.ly/4ctHkV1

In this month's NEPC Talks Education podcast, @cmsaldana.bsky.social speaks with Ain Grooms, @jaycee43public.bsky.social, and April Peters about building and sustaining equity-centered principal pipelines. bit.ly/4dvI4tr

New/Update for 2026 www.schoolfinancedata.org/the-adequacy...

Just released: The Cycle of Disinvestment in Public Schools: How Public-School Criticism Drives Policy and Disinvestment bit.ly/4rhKWO4

My new article with Kathryn Wiley is now out in the Journal of Education Finance and Law. "Re-thinking Adequacy: From Educational Minimums to Educational Justice." 🧵

February's NEPC Talks Education podcast is here! @cmsaldana.bsky.social interviews @ericaoturner.bsky.social and @bryanmann.bsky.social about how demographic change is reshaping American schools and how current policy responses can promote equity and integration. bit.ly/3OjNEEO

Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

This WVA bill does everything but cap voucher and charter school, which may be contributing to school closures.

This WVA bill does everything but cap voucher and charter school, which may be contributing to school closures.

A variation of an education preserve: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New bill could save West Virginia rural schools from consolidation share.google/nCWjgWNfrSBt...

New article with @schoolfinance101.bsky.social rethinking cause and consequence in U.S. school funding inequality, highlighting how an emphasis on consequences has sidelined deeper, historical causes, and why QuantCrit offers a path forward. Please read/share! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This study started with a convo over coffee w/ Huriya Jabbar in 2017! We wrote two unsuccessful grant proposals, finally got internal funding, and then struggled through 4 journals to get the null findings published. Persistence and great colleagues for the win! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s always an honor to engage with the scholars whose work informs and inspires your own. In this months NEPC Talks Ed podcast, I spoke with Drs. Roseann Liu and David Backer about their interdisciplinary approaches to critical school finance research. If you have a few minutes, give it a listen!!

On January 8, NEPC published my essay Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals as its blog post of the day. nepc.colorado.edu/blog/public-...

To ring in the new year, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Politics of Education Lab (PEdL) at the Stanford GSE. The goal is to advance understanding of the political dimensions of education policymaking to help policymakers and practitioners strengthen school systems. pedl.stanford.edu

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

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!

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS lol thenewpress.org/books/as-pub...

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...