The Year in Review: Dark Money Vouchers Are Having a Moment
At the Washington Examiner, Josh Cowen provides an excellent summary of where we are, how we got here, and where the privatizers are aiming to take us next. If you only read one item on the list, this should be it.
At the New York Times, Dana Goldstein looks at red state attempts to redefine civics education into something a lot more indoctrinatey.
Yikes! Judd Legum at Popular Information unpacks some of the wacky things being used as a courtroom defense in lawsuits against the state's various bans.
Will Moms For Liberty Co-Founder’s Sex Scandal And The Rape Allegation Against Her Husband Be The Last Act For This Extremist Group?
North'd Co. chapter of Moms for Liberty splits from national organization
How did this charter school get a nearly $2 million federal grant?
If You Give a State a Hammer…
The down side of making sure you're known everywhere is that when you have a sex scandal, that gets spread everywhere, too. Particularly if you've been trying to crack down on everyone else's sex. Lots of mainstream journalists jumped on this but Maurice Cunningham has been following the Moms longer than anyone, and he has one of the better summations of the week's developments.
This may or may not turn out to be a trend, but one Pennsylvania chapter is heading out on its own.
Iowa mom says school vouchers don’t offset tuition increases
Report: Indiana short-changes rural schools
What Happens When “Choice” Schemes Mature
Why segregation and racial gaps in education persist 70 years after the end of legal segregation
“Someone tell me what to do”
New Central Bucks school board has authorized a legal challenge of the former superintendent’s $700,000 payout
Iowa continues to demonstrate that universal vouchers mostly help private schools cash in. Parents? Not so much.
Steve Hinnefeld highlights a report about Indiana rural schools. They're having a rough time, because money matters and states like Indiana don't want to spend it.
Michigan has had choice for a while. Nancy Flanagan looks at the damage being done, and the benefits that have not appeared.
Alexandra Filindra at Hechinger Report looks at the big question. The answer is discouraging, but not unexpected. We still have segregation because a whole lot of people prefer it.
The Texas Tribune, ProPublica, and a bunch of journalists do a deep dive into what happened at the Uvalde school shooting. It's discouraging, in particular because what they find is that while schools and students are now well trained in what to do, lots of police don't have a clue.
Behind the paywall at the Philadelphia Inquirer, but Maddie Hanna captures the new majority at CBSD, formerly the leading edge of right wing shenanigans, rolling back the previous board's repressive policies.
Thomas Ultican looks at the most recent drive to replace Carnegie units with competency based education.
How did this charter school get a nearly $2 million federal grant?
Carol Burris guest posts at Valerie Strauss's Washington Post blog with the tale of a charter school that scored $2 million by just making stuff up.
Sue Kingery Woltanski looks at Florida's high stakes testing fetish and its many negative effects.
How To Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All The Faculty's Fault
How To Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All The Faculty's Fault
Ryan Weber at McSweeney's is pretty spot on and darkly hilarious.
At the Bucks County Beacon, I looked at a new report from Ed Voters PA that shows how our current voucher system subsidizes discrimination.
At Forbes, I looked at a civics education website (the one co-founded by MCU star Chris Evans) that plans to expand to cover state stuff.
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