ICYMI: Kingless Edition (6/15)

I hope your day yesterday was a good one, regardless of what you did with it. What times we live in. 

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So here's what we've got this week.

New data confirms NC school voucher expansion disproportionately benefits wealthy private school families

Gosh, what a surprise. North Carolina school vouchers are not a rescue for the poor, but a hand out for the wealthy. Kris Nordstrom explains the findings.

12News I-Team finds Arizona's $1 billion voucher experiment hurting high-performing public districts and charter schools

A news team discovers that besides subsidizing wealthy private school patrons, Arizona's voucher program helped students "escape" top-rated public schools.

Trump and Republicans Want Taxpayers to Fund Their Pet Project: Private Schools

Jeff Bryant reports for Our Schools on the HOP goal of taxpayer-funded private schools.

What a Difference Teachers Could Make With $45 Million!

Nancy Bailey points out that $45 million could buy many things more desirable than a military parade for Dear Leader.

Teach Your Children Well

Nancy Flanagan reflects on the No Kings protests and our responsibilities to each other.

Bird of Pray

Audrey Watters hits it again.

We have bent education – its budgets, its practices – to meet the demands of an industry, one that has neatly profited from the neoliberal push to diminish and now utterly dismantle public funding.

Some Thoughts about Science Education Reforms in the Past Century

Larry Cuban looks into the conflicts involved in teaching science. What are we trying to teach, and how are we trying to teach it?

Trump’s Policies Would Undermine Public School Equity and Launch Costly Federal School Vouchers

Jan Resseger looks at the threats to public education in the Trump budget ideas. 

The Myths of GPA in College Admissions Explained

Akil Bello, testing and college admissions guru explains that your GPA isn't what you-- or the college you're applying to-- think it is.

The Lunch Ladies are Not Smiling

Thank goodness that lawyers like Andru Volinsky exist to plough through the legal esoterica of legislative attempts to avoid funding schools for Those Peoples' Children. New Hampshire school tax law takes an odd turn with the latest court decision.

Brief FEFP Budget Update

And speaking of funding esoterica, Sue Kingery Woltanski tries to keep tabs on the funding shenanigans in Florida, the laboratory where the nation's worst education policies are nursed to life.

Fuel of delusions

Banjamin Riley with a heck of a personal story about AI and delusions and what we really need to know.

At Forbes.com, I looked at the latest attempt to fix Pennsylvania's cyber charter funding, and a little-noted Supreme Court case that could have major effects for schools across the country. 

Here's a little David Byrne. Many is the time I have pulled this song out to give me a little boost. 

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