ICYMI: One Week To Go Edition (3/30)

Next weekend the CMO and I will be off to the gathering of the Network for Public Education. It will be a nice road trip for us (the CMO is an excellent travel partner), and it is always invigorating to be around a whole lot of people who believe that public education is important and worth defending. If you're there, be sure to say hi!

In the meantime, keep sharing and amplifying and contacting your Congressperson regularly. These are not the days to sit quietly and hope for the best.

Here's this week's list.

Trump Says He’ll Fully Return Education to the States: Why That’s a Dangerous Idea

Jan Resseger  points to some of what reporters have uncovered about the potential pitfalls of Trusk's "back to the states" plans. 

Coming to Life: Woodchippers and Community Builders

Nancy Flanagan on the moment in Michigan, and some encouragement to keep swinging.

Texas lawmakers advance bill that makes it a crime for teachers to assign "Catcher in the Rye"

Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims at Popular Information cover the latest censorship bill in Texas

Trump and his allies are selling a story of dismal student performance dating back decades. Don't buy it

The regime is pushing its bad education ideas on the back of false claims about education failures. Jennifer Berkshire talks to Karin Chenoweth about the actual truth.

Embattled Primavera Online owner, who made millions while his charter school students failed, lays off staff but is poised for another major payout

 

In Arizona, the news reports on one more charter scamster filling his own pockets while shafting actual workers.

Are taxpayers footing the bill for out-of-state cyber school students? CASD investigating

In Pennsylvania, one school district discovers it ios paying cyber tuition for students who don't even live there any more.

Tallahassee: Closing Title i Schools and opening Private Schools for the Privileged.

Profiteers at Charter Schools USA have decided there's more money to be made serving the elite, so good bye Renaissance Academy and hello a private school for "advanced and gifted learners." This story is important because it shows the shift from charter schools to private schools under universal vouchers. Sue Kingery Woltanski explains in this picture of some of the most naked money-grubbing to be seen--but not for the last time.

Excessive ChatGPT Use Might Be Problematic

Research might suggest it could become addictive for some folks.

Banned Books, School Walkouts, Child Care Shortages: Military Families Confront Pentagon's Shifting Rules

At Military.com, a look at how the takeover of DOD schools by the regime is going, and how students are fighting back.

The Plagiarism Machine

Have you subscribed to the Audrey Watters newsletter yet? You should do that. And get the paid subscription for extra stuff. She looks this week at how AI is stealing content on an impossible scale.

Dismantling Public Education: No Laughing Matter!

Nancy Bailey on Trusk's dismantling of the education department.

EXCLUSIVE: AI Insider reveals secrets about artificial general intelligence

Ben Riley passes along some AI-skeptic wisdom from Yann LeCun (no, AI will not replace teachers).

Freedom's Just Another Word...

John Warner contemplates being an author whose work has been thieved by AI developers. What is the future of writing?

I Teach Memoir Writing. Don’t Outsource Your Life Story to A.I.

Tom McAllister at the New York Times with an exceptional argument for writing by humans, not by bots.

We Are Free-Speech Absolutists, Unless You Say Something We Disagree With, In Which Case, You're a Terrorist

Carlos Greaves at McSweeney's, reminding us that satire isn't always entirely funny.

I've got some Shirley Temple for you this week. Bert Lahr is fine, but when Bill Robinson comes down those steps...!

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