Apparently, the “Big Story” today includes a bit of Accountabaloney. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Recommended weekend listening: in a growing # of states, education policy reflects the vision of individual billionaires. We head to Florida, where @jasongarcia.bsky.social & @flbaloney.bsky.social help us get to the bottom of a controversial school privatization plan soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

On the November FLBOE agenda:“Lawmakers promoting the bill said they did not intend to use the standards to indoctrinate children or spread fear, leaving the details to the Department of Education.” “It’s a highly biased picture…” #Florida www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

#Florida’s Spring 2025 school funding shortfall wasn’t a glitch — it was a system failure. Until the state releases the missing February data, we can’t fix what went wrong. #Transparency first. Release the Fourth Calculation substack.com/home/post/p-...

“what’s really happening is the systematic removal of ideas the government doesn’t want made widely available.” @FLFreedomRead www.floridatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump admin going after special education with a hatchet in the dark of night seems like an issue the Dems could run with

"The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

“As conservative lawmakers promise to expand school choice next year, a handful of Mississippi cities are taking a public stand against the policy.” mississippitoday.org/2025/10/07/m...

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools? - Just who wants us on this one? Well, scammers. And the folks who turned DEI into something to be avoided. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/03/h... via @nancyflanagan #EdTech

“So many people who appear to be intelligent and well-educated who are harboring fantasy-based ideas about what AI is and what it does.” curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/10/rein...

Where’s that eating popcorn gif when you need it?

This week marks 10 years of Accountabaloney! The mission is still the same: speak truth, defend public schools, and demand accountability. Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, and stood with us along the way. #DecadeofAccountabaloney accountabaloney.com/a-decade-of-...

Profiteering at the Expense of Students, Families, and Taxpayers. Step Up's Marketplace traps students in an overpriced marketplace. #FLEducation #Florida accountabaloney.substack.com/p/profiteeri...

There simply is no settled evidence that the US has a “crisis” in reading or that any specific reading program or reading theory has contributed significantly to low student reading proficiency. radicalscholarship.com/2025/08/12/w...

“For eight years, the Schools of Hope program has drained public dollars, delivered mediocre results and weakened the very neighborhood schools that anchor our communities…” 1/2 www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/09/05/c...

"Nearly three in four, 71%, of faculty in Florida who were surveyed said they would not encourage a graduate student to seek employment in Florida." #Florida

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, nearly a third of #Florida professors looking for work in another state floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/05/n...

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. The end of critical thinking in the classroom...

"Just like with food stamps, taxpayers have a right to know that the money they’re providing for schools is actually funding a quality education." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/09/03/f...

I have a new essay up at @thebaffler.com about the right's turn against education-as-job-training. If you're wondering how we went from a decades-long national STEMergency to 'a flat earth curriculum is OK by us,' this is the piece for you! thebaffler.com/outbursts/un...

Yet another reason #Florida’s school districts should refuse to participate in Step Up’s education marketplace and protect public schools for every child. accountabaloney.substack.com/p/from-publi...

"we’ve moved from school choice as a means of escaping ‘failing schools’ to escaping any kind of school. But the bottom line is that we’re just supposed to accept that ‘education freedom’ means that lots of schools will be closing." #savepublicschools educationwars.substack.com/p/is-public-...

"relying on private markets to educate America’s youth makes it harder to create equal opportunity for children to learn and be economically successful, leaving the country less prosperous and more divided." theconversation.com/why-america-...

In 2020, @jackschneider.bsky.social & I wrote a book called A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. We warned that the vision of the future was *unbundling* in which school = whatever education content consumers purchase. As @flbaloney.bsky.social reports, the future is here substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Trump administration has rescinded federal guidance that spelled out schools’ legal obligations to accommodate students who are learning English, the Washington Post reports. About one in ten Florida students is recorded as an English language learner. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Good advice for #Florida's school board members "School districts caught in the state’s wrath need to ignore the drama, press for legal clarity if standoffs arise and refocus public attention on student needs and achievement." www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

Selling Florida’s Public Schools, Piece by Piece – Accountabaloney accountabaloney.com/selling-flor...

Florida’s public schools are being sold off, piece by piece—and school board members are being encouraged to help. Step Up for Students calls it “innovation.” It’s really privatization accountabaloney.com/selling-flor...

The State Board of Education made its direction clear during its meeting in St. Augustine. That story, plus the latest on school closures, student privacy, graduation options and more, in today's Florida education news roundup. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Their test scores are not better. Not when they take the same tests that public school students take.

“None of these books are obscene.” Important ruling in favor of books and librarians in #Florida. Full ruling here: drive.google.com/file/d/1oZIU... www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Bibbidi Bobbidi What? "While Florida’s public schools are repeatedly asked to do more with less, begging parents to bring in paper towels and soap… If your homeschooled child wants to be Cinderella for a day? The state’s got that covered." accountabaloney.com/bibbidi-bobb...

#Florida School Grades: Commissioner Stasi calls the grades proof of success, while Jeb’s Foundation says they’re inflated. Which is it? open.substack.com/pub/accounta...

The Wheels on the Bus… Are Underfunded – Accountabaloney accountabaloney.com/the-wheels-o...

"If #Florida couldn’t fund healthier school start times for public school students, why should anyone believe it can afford to subsidize rides to private ones?" #FundPublicSchools open.substack.com/pub/accounta...

#Florida’s Board of Education is inviting speakers tied to extremist groups that openly want to end public education—as part of their opening prayers. You can’t make this up.
accountabaloney.com/in-the-name-...

The #Florida Board of Education invited a senior leader from Alliance Defending Freedom—a group actively working to dismantle public schools—to deliver the invocation at its July meeting. I have questions. Many questions... accountabaloney.substack.com/p/in-the-nam...

Stop the grift. Save public education. Colleen Conklin is back with a must-read takedown of Florida’s school voucher scheme. Every taxpayer should read this. #DemocracyDependsOnIt open.substack.com/pub/accounta...

StopTheGrift #Florida "You’re worried about “fraud & abuse”? Then why give a pass that huge part of the system that operates in the shadows?" flaglerlive.com/stop-the-gri...

#Florida voucher advocates aren’t just expanding choice—they’re eyeing Title I funds meant for low-income public school students. With Project 2025 paving the way, public ed is under serious threat. open.substack.com/pub/accounta...

Florida's 8th grade NAEP scores are the lowest they've been in 20 years "but politicians in this state spend way more time trying to restrict reading than encourage it. Instead of trying to boost sad-sack test scores, they’re still screaming about Judy Blume." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/23/f...

#Florida's largest parent organization, @FloridaPTA , joins lawsuit asking for release of federal education funds. “With school underway and no alternative path for timely relief, legal action has become the only remaining option to protect our students.” drive.google.com/file/d/14974...

“These stories are distressing. Yet they may distract from a more fundamental problem: Even relatively safe AI friendships are troubling, because they cannot replace authentic human companionship.” larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/a...

This is the first time I have seen Governor DeSantis admit, by omission, that Florida is no longer #1 in Education (we are now #22 in K-12 and behind “woke” New Jersey overall) #Florida

Remember when we were worried about Ed Dept being "Dismantled"? I said then and repeat, the "D" words we should really be concerned about are 1. Depletion (of public funding) 2. Diversion (of funds to private schools) 3. Discrimination (of DEI, LGBTQ+) 4. Dysfunction (of public ed to serve #1-3)

It's not a "funding freeze" or "hold." It's an unlawful seizure of federal funds and it's categorically unconstitutional. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Levesque's recent Ed Next article attempts to explain voter resistance to school choice by painting it as an emotional or psychological quirk. But the reality is far simpler: people value public schools because they build strong, connected communities. accountabaloney.substack.com/p/the-resist...

CURMUDGUCATION: What About A Civics Education Moonshot? curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/07/what...

Florida backed off slashing AP/IB/Dual Enrollment funding—for now. But don’t be fooled: lawmakers quietly rewrote the rules to make future cuts easier, quieter, and harder to track. Public school parents won Round 1. Stay ready for Round 2. #FLEd #ProtectPublicEd open.substack.com/pub/accounta...

Spend some time learning about the attacks on public education. This week's list is a good place to start. Thanks for including me @palan57.bsky.social curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/07/icym...