wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

The Philadelphia City Council, unhappy with the decisions of a mayoral-appointee school board, wants to talk about creating an elected school board. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...

All Memphis 3rd graders have to retake state tests essentially because of a calendar issue. The district wants kids to have a second chance to make it to 4th grade, but if they don't know which kids did poorly, have they given any extra support in the meantime? www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

New: Trump's OMB is withholding more than $2 billion Congress approved in February for K-12 and higher education. Advocates and experts weigh in on what this means and whether it's time to panic: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

When I was in college, a poli sci prof had everyone write on a scrap of paper how much money our parents made and what class we considered ourselves. $20,000 a year? Middle class. $200,000 a year? Middle class. In this country, class is just a state of mind.

Doesn't get much more Colorado than a snow day in May.

"When schools close without a plan, they can become drains on municipal resources and hubs for crime. ... Yet the United States need not simply march into a future with scores of empty, crime-ridden school buildings."

JUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.

We won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting @chicagotribune.com! Our entire newsroom covered Midway Blitz with everything we had. I’ve never been prouder of the Tribune or its commitment to the truth. It’s an honor to be part of this team.

Um. Was it all of them?

My favorite sentence in this article is “catfish, which is safe to eat,”

This picture.

I didn't know you could just suspend an election.

Save the Jamestown Merc —>

One school district is looking at class sizes north of 40 students after cuts in response to a failed referendum. It might close down or merge with another district. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/04/wisc...

"In total, they shared 90 messages from 79 companies .... The sheer avalanche of options makes the task of finding a quality tool that much harder. The superintendents also said they’ve found the flood of emails takes away their time and attention."

Some really interesting changes made to the education governance reform making its way through the California assembly (most notably to me, the requirement for evaluation of large programs!) edsource.org/2026/califor...

Could you manage a superintendent's overloaded inbox? Dodge rogue calendar invites? An AI-enabled flood of marketing emails are making it that much harder for district leaders to make smart ed tech decisions. @lilyalta.bsky.social reports. projects.chalkbeat.org/2026/ed-tech...

My most capital-P Patriotic opinion is that I do not care about the British monarchy. I don't want to know what they're up to, what their names are, what they have to say about anything. We fought a war to not care about them. So this is a very uncomfortable week for me.

Counterpoint: Youth sports are amazing. Literally anything can happen! Showing up for your kids is also great, and it gives you a reason to get off your phone.

Eyewitness accounts in the immediate wake of disaster and violence are often TERRIBLY inaccurate. And within hours, people will have talked and spread enough conflicting narratives that everybody's "memories" are at least like 30% cobbled together after-the-fact.

I get it's funny how much instant misinfo there was about a shooting at a gathering of journalists. But this is completely normal. I have seen people who had a 9mm pistol pulled on them say the shooter had an AR-15. I have folks cry "shots fired" when none were and then ignore gunfire a block away.

Just in awe of what the human body can do. apnews.com/article/mara...

I hate this. www.npr.org/2026/04/25/n...

the number of people i see speeding through school zones and residential streets with their phones directly in their faces…

Standardized tests need a PR campaign. They measure skills & predict later outcomes, even within lvls of ed The rub: they sometimes tell parents kids aren’t mastering content as well as they want to believe. “my kid doesn’t test well” is a salve, but doesn’t help your kid grow Acct not hijacked!

yeah, so this is the thing about the iran war. regardless of whether there is shooting or not, the strait is closed, and that is the central problem for the global economy. iran realizes this and no amount of bluster will change it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Nothing surprises me at this point,” Cherry Creek school board member John-Claude Futrell tells @jessicaseaman.bsky.social. “We’re working to right a lot of wrongs.”

This carousel is infamous in my family as the site of a truly epic meltdown by my younger child, which kicked off when I said we could not ride again. I had no idea it had this Civil Rights history. Glad to see it recognized as such even in this environment. www.npr.org/2026/04/24/n...

A separate protest bill affecting houses of worship has a veto-proof majority in the City Council.

The Denver school board has moved away from a lot of reform policies, and I think it's fair to say the charter sector does not perceive them as a friend. But here they voted to move a KIPP elementary next to a district elementary because "every child deserves access to a high-quality building."

As a non-researcher / consumer of education research, the only thing I'll add to this excellent response is that homeschoolers, as a group, are the last people who would rush to participate in research. If they wanted people in their business, they'd send their kids to school.

A man who says he was born in Colorado was deported recently after being pulled over in Texas, after which immigration officers denied his offers to show them proof of citizenship he says he had at home.

Gen Z hates what technology is doing to society, new @nbcnews.com poll and reporting shows www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

TRIO's Talent Search program, which helps students from marginalized communities see themselves as college material, is being reoriented toward apprenticeships and other workforce learning. A bipartisan group of senators is crying foul @lilyalta.bsky.social reports. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/24/c...

I really appreciated this student-produced podcast about calculus. There are so many ways to derive value from a class or to think about why to study something. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law: The 9-8 decision delivered a boost to backers of similar laws in Arkansas and Louisiana.

I'm having a hard time believing my eyes with water data this year. The Colorado River mainstem through Grand Junction was flowing at 54 cfs last night. Not a typo. 54 cfs. Last year on this date it was flowing at 1,420cfs. Even in 2002, the driest year on record, it was at 690cfs on April 22.

Tennessee lawmakers signed off on a state-backed takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools. A politically appointed oversight board will have the final say on critical decisions. Other school districts could lose local control too. www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

These stories of MN children detained by ICE, as reported by @bzosiad.bsky.social , are horrifying. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Today, Los Angeles Unified became the largest school district yet to move to scale back Ed tech in classrooms YouTube will be blocked for students, PreK-1st grade won’t use iPads anymore, and the district is required to start tracking mins students spend on devices www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

LAUSD to limit screen time for all students, prohibit use among youngest students LEARN MORE: bit.ly/3QzD5OX

This feels like a guaranteed death spiral for transit in Denver.

I don't know how to answer this because I like gefilte fish, even from the jar.

I think about this every time I walk or drive past one of the old Denver high schools. We used to build castles to learning for our children.

Went for a walk and accidentally interrupted a raccoon in the act of stealing someone's DoorDash.

The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Some students get tutoring but end up as ‘intervention lifers.’ This common sense tactic could help. - via @ericameltzer.bsky.social #EdResearch #EdPolicy #EduSky www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/20/t...

The next line in evolving church-state case law: Can states require religious schools to abide by nondiscrimination requirements to receive public money? The Supreme Court is taking up a case involving Colorado's universal preschool program. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

Two things are true here. First, lots of education research is of disturbingly low-quality — and that's a real problem for the field. But second, painting with such a broad brush about a large, intellectually diverse field is not right. bsky.app/profile/bren...