i hope tom kean becomes a synonym in our culture for collecting a paycheck while doing absolutely nothing

i expect that 1) will be the modal outcome.

If a case record had someone making these remarks about white people, Alito might actually faint from rage. But if you're talking about black people it's fine and not racist at all bsky.app/profile/jame...

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

Disability Groups Fear RFK Jr.’s New Special Education Role www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/u...

What a speech! This team has just given so much joy to me and all of NYC.

Quick slide deck on BS from EDUNOMICS. I'm just too sick of it. So...

Reposting until it stops!!!! schoolfinance101.com/2026/06/16/m...

What could possibly go wrong in handing over civil rights enforcement to this DoJ?

The Trump admin recently found a suburban CO district in violation of Title IX in part because "male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams." Turns out, according to the district, those were not athletes but male mascots and managers. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

Me if I was a Spurs fan right now:

Seriously, do the supposed stellar scholars who've revealed to us this learning recession have absolutely no clue of the long term patterns in school funding? post-recession? And the research that's already been done on that?

Good new stuff:

Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

whatever the political establishment is, it's been wrong time after time about how voters will respond when confronted with a truly vile candidate. plus i always think it's worse to elect folks who are incapable of showing any evidence of public decency. it degrades the discourse and the country.

As I wrote earlier today, Knicks need to win by 18 to have best scoring margin in an 11-game stretch in NBA history. They just went up 20. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...

Knicks have a +19.4 average point differential this postseason, the largest by a team entering the NBA Finals in NBA playoff history. Passed the 2017 Warriors' mark of +16.3.

A searing indictment from @nhannahjones.bsky.social on the collapse of civil rights in America. She has asked over and over — can this country be true multiracial democracy? It will take a radical counterrevolution to the all-encompassing white supremacy of MAGA. I hope we find it within us.

Everyone is better than Jalen Brunson…until it’s time to be better than Jalen Brunson.

I will keep mentioning the segregationist goals of the feds and many other higher ed stakeholders in these interviews and one day a reporter will print it

The School Finance Indicators Database has a new website! schoolfinancedata.org

"... student characteristics explain the vast majority of variation in student attendance and ... districts have only minor effects on attendance. These results imply that school funding systems based on ADA may unfairly penalize high-poverty school districts." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1436

This is a wild misunderstanding of the NYC public school system. The averages are 40k because there are big disparities, but he misses so many things that NYC does for students that other cities do not. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You should be glad @mpolikoff.bsky.social read the Piper piece, which apparently was pickled. More importantly, the observations he makes are valuable in and of themselves.

I guess this is kinda progress? You could actually, I don’t know, try to implement the funding formula! Not good enough. Also, ELs are not “non-English speakers”. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

A lot of folks were approvingly sharing Kelsey Piper's post about the problems of educational research. Here's my take. // Ill-Informed Essays About Education Research are Weak and Sloppy. Why? edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/ill-inform...

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work

“At the beginning of April, the conservative-dominated North Carolina Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of equitable education funding in the state.” www.liberalcurrents.com/equal-on-pap...

This is so disrespectful and just misleading: www.theargumentmag.com/p/education-...

YOU CAN'T JUST CUT PROGRAMS THAT ARE WRITTEN INTO LEGISLATION!!! OTOH apparently he can; he's done so already and shows no signs of stopping. It's just such a stupid waste of money. Some of these programs were already cancelled and resurrected through the courts. www.k12dive.com/news/trumps-...

Means-testing also makes programs cost more than they would under a universal model, because so much money gets wasted on verification, surveillance, and compliance.

Interesting paper! My extremely hot take- if you were to unpack the mechanisms/causes of why Special Education improved outcomes, you’d find boring answers such as lower pupil:teacher ratios, related services, and transportation.

🚨New working paper alert! 🚨 The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective? Today we released a working paper suggesting it is. "Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States" Let me explain...

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

Here's a gift link to a very cool story. Whenever Dr. Goldin would like like to help me with salary negotiations, I'm all ears! Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% pay raise.

Good post about the historical origins of Plyler vs. Doe. This isn’t an economics issue, it’s a fight for the values of the country: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/o...

NEWS— The Trump administration has made more progress than previously known chipping away at Plyler v. Doe, the decision guaranteeing public education access to undocumented students. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/27/t...

ed policy folks will remember Tony Tata as the former super of Wake County, NC. he initiated a program to end school assignment and drastically reduced the number of high-performing schools in the district, just so white kids in Cary didn't have to go to other schools.

Awful: Stephen Miller is privately urging Texas lawmakers to restrict funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2081...

So, I built a little BETA "Tinder meets ESA" application in which you can swipe left and right on Arizona ESA purchases that were part of the state's recent sample, and see if they were allowed or unallowed. Enjoy! You can play two rounds right now. Comments welcome.

Is Your State Shortchanging Public Schools? @schoolfinance101.bsky.social @mattdicarlo.bsky.social @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social bit.ly/4t2t5M7

I lost my job, oil is six dollars a gallon, my kids have measles, and secret police roam the streets, killing and imprisoning people at random. But at least now students at schools I've never heard of aren't heckling conservative speakers that I've never heard of.

Notably, this op-ed from DFER contains not one single idea for improving education -- just warmed-over centrist scolding of Democrats for not supporting the Republican school privatization agenda plus stale COVID grief. wapo.st/4t0yh3h

Matthew Yglesias is doing incredible public service work producing “identify the flaw in this argument” exercises for education policy students. And for professors, he offers free exam questions with no cognitive offloading, prompting, or energy use. Bless his heart.

why isn't the Muslim mayor taking this opportunity to talk about how all Muslims are bad?

1) There are states other than California and Mississippi. 2) There are nationwide tests that measure things other than Grade 4 reading. 3) There are measurable education outcomes other than test scores.

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

Who among us hasn't subsidized a European vacation, or visited Petra, on the state of Arizona's taxpayers? Two different account holders. This is outrageous, and fully allowable under Arizona's ESA policy. [Dates are dates submitted, not dates on which expense happened.]