Still stuff to read this week. Let's see what we've got in the bin.
Steve Nuzum has been following the attempts of South Carolina to use fake PragerU as an education partner. Yuck.
Andru Volinsky updates us on the latest chapter in the long-running attempt to get New Hampshire to fully and fairly fund its schools.
Doing your brainstorming with a chatbot? Audrey Watters would rather read or, you know, think.
Lexi Lonas Coch at The Hill looks at the escape clause in the federal voucher bill. Will states avoid the whole business, or will it be hard to resist free federal money?
At EdWeek, Johann Neem provides the most depressing take on the recent SCOTUS allowing parents a religious opt-out for any lessons they don't care for.
Speaking of lousy news, here are some depressing stats reported by The74..
I've linked to this piece from New America in two pieces this week, but I'm going to put the link here because it's an extraordinary resource for breaking down the damage from the regimes withholding of funding from schools across the country.
Thomas Ultican takes a look at Sacramento, where Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee have been busy folks.
Robert Repino writes at The Progressive about one of the big unanswered questions of vouchers. Churches want them and have pushed hard for them, but what do they do with the money?
Indiana Vouchers: Private School Coupons for Wealthy Families
Most U.S. adults say child care costs are a ‘major problem,’ a new AP-NORC poll finds
MAGA’s Ugly Budget at Odds with Its Creepy Pronatalism
La. Teachers: State Raise Funding Is on the 2026 Ballot
The resistance to “School choice” isn’t psychological—it’s principled.
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
Andy Spears breaks down yet another state voucher program that is all about taxpayers funding wealthy families and private schools.
Yeah, you already knew this, but child care is crazy expensive-- so much so that folks aren't working because it would cost too much to have child care.
Jennifer Rubin joins the crowd pointing out that if the far right wants more (white) babies, maybe don't make life miserable for young parents.
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider updates us with a picture of the kind of mess teachers have to go through in a state where the legislature decides if they can have a raise or not.
Patty Levesque has enjoyed a full career as a serial reform grifter, and she recently published a piece arguing about the psychology of school choice resisters. Sue Kingery Woltanski explains why Levesque's argument is bunk.
This is an NPR story from 2018 (reported by Gustavo Arellano). While we're hearing noise about making able-bodied people work in the fields to earn their Medicaid, it's worth looking back to 1965, when the feds decided high school jocks could replace those damned migrant farm workers. There's a reason that the program wasn't around in 1966.
I include the music clips these days because when the news is lousy, it's good to remember what is beautiful about being human in the world.
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