I listened and it was one of the most chilling conversations I’ve ever heard.

Public assets must be controlled by, and in the public's interest - through democratically elected officials charged with overseeing those assets. If this turns out to be a massive failure, by whatever measures, the local board must have authority to access/control their facilities.

and: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

For example: www.epi.org/publication/...

My bigger concern - and more on this later - is whether the deal struck with the state of FL will compromise taxpayer control (and even ownership) over the land and buildings that have been paid for by and maintained at the expense of Miami Dade taxpayers. I've written much on these issues.

Success Academies in NY generally avoid the type of population they'd likely be expected to serve in Miami. Sure, NYC is a multicultural, multilingual city. But SA doesn't serve that (setting aside their method/approach). Even in NYC, they continue to skim (or shed) to produce their results.

And racial composition:

So - Success Academies is making a deal to open up shop in Florida - starting in Miami. Here are a few stats on SA schools in NYC:

As Trump's White House threatens more mass firings of the federal workforce, it's simultaneously focused on building 90,000 sq. ft. ballroom straight out of the Gilded Age. He’s more concerned with projecting opulence and pomp than he is about governing. trib.al/jio280D

Shocking new reporting from the Miami Herald: hundreds of detainees MISSING after being detained at Alligator Alcatraz. I’ve got the latest, incl. the appeals court ruling that makes no sense & the financial blackhole DeSantis has put FL in while chasing Trump’s love. youtu.be/5hGJuIgIzYw?...

From MDRC report. They blatantly violating the spirit and letter of charter lottery laws, as Pondiscio also reports on in his book.

So - Success Academies is making a deal to open up shop in Florida - starting in Miami. Here are a few stats on SA schools in NYC:

Phang: Trump can get up and be an absolute fucking embarrassment and humiliate our country by saying the dumbest lies in front of the UN… and others can get up and say horrific things about people, and they can have free speech. But we can’t? That’s not how the First Amendment works.

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

@bostonglobe.com I fixed your headline for you.

40 patients studied over only 12 weeks.

K-12 teachers using AI to produce lesson plans that may be riddled with errors is a terrible next step from what’s been happening for the last two decades, which is a turn away from subject content expertise to tech expertise and a constant chasing of pedagogical fads.

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

Making this a great time to show up at your local Board of Education meetings and make sure your administrators and teachers are able to exercise their free speech.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

productive conversation on school funding in general, with specific thoughts on Ohio: www.wosu.org/show/all-sid... w/ @zahavastadler.bsky.social

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

on Education Soft-Secession & Project 2029: schoolfinance101.com/wp-content/u...

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

School choice poses a unique threat to rural schools and districts. In this article (led by Dr. Preston Green and in collaboration with Drs. Bruce Baker and Julie Mead), we offer a potential solution. (Forthcoming in the Idaho law review). @drprestongreen.bsky.social @schoolfinance101.bsky.social

The Trump and House R budgets would both take a chainsaw to K-12 funding—$35 million and $41 million per congressional district, respectively. Cuts fall heaviest on rural schools and those in low-income and majority-of-color congressional districts. See how much your CD would lose in school funding:

PRESERVING RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM THE THREAT OF VOUCHERS AND CHARTERS @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I think the disconnect we’re seeing online is between pundits who are imagining a Charlie Kirk in their heads and professors who have lived for a decade with the (often literal) targets he and his anti-free speech organization placed on their backs.

School vouchers are forced tithing for taxpayers. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.

The status of litigation against the Trump administration’s K-12 education agenda: A guide for education leaders www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Sports gambling is a cancer on sports, example #314825793483 www.ncaa.org/news/2025/9/...

"The What Works Clearinghouse has played a vital role in synthesizing and disseminating evidence, although challenges remain in expediting the review process." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Meanwhile - time for the USTA to close up shop at its Lake Nona facility (horrible investment) as Florida becomes a festering stew of preventable diseases. I'd certainly encourage any/all colleges to boycott FL for their spring training, and head to California options instead.

NEW SUBSTACK: Trump Takes the U.S. Open Hostage 28,000 people will boo Donald Trump at Arthur Ashe Stadium tonight. The real question: will America hear it, or will he silence the truth on live TV? Pls read and share and let's make this go viral today 👇

Question: Why are many people under the impression that Trump and the awful things he’s doing are popular, even though they’re not? Answer: America is still a mostly free country where dissent against Trump’s dictatorial ambitions is widespread, but media keeps making it appear as if it’s not.

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

alohastatedaily.com/2025/09/05/k... SFFA arguing that it's unfair to white people to have a school that preserves native culture-by serving native populations-in what was an island kingdom/republic that was forcibly colonized/annexed by white people? Now they're just being racist assholes for kicks!

"One thing we know about Donald Trump is that he will respond to any show of weakness or lack of resolve by grabbing for even more power. And by year’s end...it won’t matter what Congress or the courts do. He’ll be in a position to simply ignore them." From Steven Pearlstein's debut in The Bulwark:

A Florida story - updated - the state continues its march to the bottom on the share of its economic capacity spent on K12 schooling - Another perspective on this is that the state has the capacity to do better!

This is truer than lots of folks realize.

The Democratic governors of California, Oregon and Washington said Wednesday they are forming an alliance to coordinate vaccine recommendations for their states. via @stateline.org

"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.

AERA Open study finds stark regional gaps in college access for low-income students ‪@bbassett2.bsky.social‬ @diverseissues.bsky.social‬ www.diverseeducation.com/students/art...

Reflecting on what actually happened for schools in the aftermath of Katrina: networkforpubliceducation.org/wp-content/u... & nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

Here, fixed it.

BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.