Pro-voucher orgs have been prematurely touting fed vouchers will benefit public school students👇 "'Sound guidance' allowing public school students to receive vouchers under this program is unlikely to arrive. The Trump administration has shown no interest in supporting public school students."

Why is the fact that this was a "public-private partnership" listed as an asset? It appears that the inclusion of private partners (and the profit motive) are why this much-needed Raleigh project fell apart. Why can't the city just build the apartments themselves?

@derekgottliebphd.com podcast education philosopher king, has a pod called The Referenda (great name) and he had me and Celina Su on to talk public education and budgeting. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

My neighborhood is really special

I’m glad Chad is pointing out the changes in academic outcomes, but it’s weird that he’s simultaneously using his platforms to lament that schools are staffing up to address academic shortcomings and the additional needs of modern cohorts compared to historical cohorts.

Another quick story time - About those unsustainable "huge" staffing increases while public schools bleed enrollments. First - those enrollments (overall)

Newest from me: @ncgovernor.bsky.social should unambiguously reject Trump’s voucher scheme #ncpol

School closures, like this one in Randolph County, undermine student learning, hurt local communities...and are the result of intentional policy decisions made by the NCGA #ncpol

Great article that documents how insincere NCGA Republicans are when they talk about their concerns for mental health services in these hearings about highly publicized murders #ncpol

LOL #ncpol

Pretend's latest episode looks into NC's school voucher system, talking to me, @blairreeves.bsky.social, @anndosshelms.bsky.social, and features amazing testamony from a former voucher student. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Overcast: overcast.fm/+JQr7_ZnDA #ncpol

People praise bipartisanship, but this is the type of garbage that bipartisanship delivers

Our new working paper on school-level attendance practices and systems in MI and GA! In addition to cataloguing more and less common practices, we also show there is relatively little variation both across states and within states across contexts in attendance strategies. 1/2

Remember *two weeks ago* when Duke Energy told us their system was incapable of handling the load from a snow storm? Today: $5 billion in profits for Duke Energy, higher bills for you and me, and what does this state have to show in terms of energy resiliency? #ncpol www.wral.com/news/local/d...

It's a very direct line from Citizens United to fascists taking over our country. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opinion/billionaires-wealth-tax.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVA.iHrV.RA9npT_yfYDs&smid=url-share (Gift link, no paywall)

Nothing I can think of from Raleigh (red hot dogs?), but I grew up in Rhode Island, where clam cakes, coffee milk, and Del's Lemonade all deserve worldwide recognition

Whoever is calling the shots at MLS keeps making bad decisions. Other than fantasy (which they keep doing their best to screw up) there's now zero reason to check their website. As an MLS fan, I'll happily pay for Doyle's newsletter.

Newest from me: @ncgovernor.bsky.social should unambiguously reject Trump’s voucher scheme #ncpol

North Carolina has a very serious problem with political corruption. The biggest single example of a blatant scam on our state's taxpayers is probably the private school voucher scheme. Once you find out how this system works, it'll blow your mind that this is legal. 🤯

Pretend's latest episode looks into NC's school voucher system, talking to me, @blairreeves.bsky.social, @anndosshelms.bsky.social, and features amazing testamony from a former voucher student. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Overcast: overcast.fm/+JQr7_ZnDA #ncpol

Peep that second bullet NC educators

This is disgusting and corrupt. Charter School Advisory Board Chair gets approval to spin off a standalone virtual charter school from the charter that he's the superintendent of. You couldn't make this stuff up. #ncpol

NJ is considering a $10.5bn school bond. By contrast, NC has been unable to get a $2bn school bond passed, even though it's been mandated by the state Supreme Court. www.chalkbeat.org/newark/2026/...

Two annoying things: 1) Fulham taking the foot off the gas whenever they have a lead 2) Bernd Leno has not been good this year #FFC #FULEVE

The parallels in NC to Tara Servatius in *2012* are glaring. Not enough media outlets or pols will ask John Hood and friends about why things are different now, demanding answers. Tara’s still on the air from SC and on Audacy. #ncpol

Huh, looks like vouchers - the historical policy tool for school segregationists - are used more frequently in North Carolina districts with the most students of color

Two things: 1) Hilarious that Hall's spox doesn't know what the word moratorium means 2) Wild not to mention that the program is already overfunded by about $190m this year

Starting in about an hour #ncpol

the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever

Pandemic era changes to the CTC and EITC massively reduced child poverty, but I didn't know this part: "The benefits also occurred even though IRS data suggest that nearly one in five individuals who were eligible did not claim them."

I testified today about inter-district choice in front of the MI House of Reps education and workforce subcommittee. I was proud to spotlight the excellent and robust scholarship from MI on this topic! 🧵

It is extremely discouraging that the State Superintendent and the State Board of Education aren't making full implementation of the Leandro Plan the centerpiece of their legislative agenda (as they are rquired to do by an open court order) #ncpol #LeadWithLeandro

The Superintendent/State Board's 2026 Legislative Priorities are out and I had to fix the summary slide for them to make it more accurate simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Att... #ncpol

Starbucks has been silent around ICE entering our stores, even suggesting we must serve them despite the violence and kidnappings we've all witnessed. It's time for the company to follow the examples set by other businesses and make our stores safer from ICE!

Starting to think that Dems made a huge mistake by ignoring Cori Bush's efforts to remove insurrectionist representatives from office

The great folks at @brownspromise.bsky.social have put together this excellent community guide to advocating for integrated schools

Who did he donate to, Will? #ncpol

Voters hate Republican efforts to dismantle our public schools. But to take advantage electorally, Democrats need to actually center their support for public schools

The idea that the legislature alone gets to decide what is (and what isn't) constitutional has been at the heart of the Leandro case post-2020. It's a wildly radical argument that journalists have failed to explain in their reporting. (1/4) #ncpol

“President Obama attended and spoke at the banquet in 2009 and in 2012.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa... When will I stop learning about new ways that Obama sucked?

Critical to the success of school "choice" aka privatization is removing any transparency and accountability as they divert public funds to private schools. The inability to measure the results of vouchers given to these mostly religious institutions strips choice from taxpayers and parents.

and in today's education news coverage: a tracker of where the federal government is kidnapping children and their parents off school grounds www.k12dive.com/news/ice-act...

Join us on Sunday, March 1 from 2-4 PM in Rocky Mount for @ncdemocrats.bsky.social event, “Building Bridges: A Fireside Chat with NC Democrats” - sign up now to join me! #buildingblue #ncdemocrats #ncpol www.mobilize.us/ncdems/event...

Poch out

I had folks telling me yesterday that Patriots owner Robert Kraft has actively distanced himself from Trump. Well.... www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

It’s not surprising that a study run by voucher advocate Anna Egalite recommends the option that minimizes costs/obligations to private schools #ncpol

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really need @roycoopernc.bsky.social to understand this I assume he's paying people millions of dollars to tell him to take the "middle road" so as not to offend anyone that's a sure-fire way to alienate his base abolishing ICE **is** the reform I genuinely like the man, so I hope he gets it

Will @jonrauch.bsky.social cede his job about knowing politics to someone who isn’t objectively bad at knowing politics? Being wrong about the biggest political question of the decade should be disqualifying