Last night I marched (well, rode) in an Independence Day parade, something I have done for fifty-some years. Friday was the big penny carnival in town, for which the board of directrors is almost, but not yet, too old to really be entertained. This week I'll play in a special concert as part of my city's week-ish long celebration of the Fourth. I'll host the annual cookout in my backyard, followed by some trad jazz jamming. I like this holiday, regardless of what's going on elsewhere, because the government is not the country any more than a set of headlights drive the car.
Here's the reading list for the week.
Tennessee increases private-school voucher vendor contract by $356MThere is a pile of money to be made by the groups that administer voucher dollars, and in Tennessee that pile is about to become mountainous. Sam Stockard reports for Tennessee Lookout.
Stephen Dyer keeps trying to explain the realities of funding in Ohio, which becomes more of an uphill climb when certain parties keep pushing out inaccurate information.
Jeff Yass is putting some of his fortune behind Marsha Blackburn's race for Tennessee governor. Andy Spears reports.
Louisiana's teacher stipend-based sideway raise is the center of legal maneuvering. The indispensable Mercedes Schneider explains.
A Tennessee private school tried to punish a senior for coming out as gay; she took them to court and now they have to pay. Angela Latham reports.
Including NPE's Carol Burris. The National Education Policy Center published a brief explaining how states could help draw a line between church and state.
The trends uncovered by this working paper are downward, all across the board.
Sharif El-Mekki does cite the untrustworthy National Council on Teacher Quality here, but his call for more Black male teachers still makes sense. In Education Week.
In Alaska, Mathew Beck reports, Moms for Liberty still draw plenty of obeisance from GOP candidates. The details are not encouraging.
Paul Thomas provides some useful sources for unraveling the data from NAEP.
Nancy Bailey has some thoughts about the general panic over "chronic absenteeism." Maybe schools could stop doing some of these counter-productive things.
TC Weber fell down and hurt himself, but his stay in the health care system gave him a chance to think about things like the Big Standardized Test, and he's ready to share those thoughts.
Jeff Waid also has thoughts about the BS Test, stirred up by Ross Wiener's NYT op ed.
Sue Kingery Woltanski offers a handy chart for comparing the major publicly funded education options in Florida. Nice and clear.
Stephen Dyer points out that taxpayers are now helping private schools turn a profit (and buy cool cars).
Emily Bendar and Nanna Inie give some practical advice about how to talk about AI without contributing to the impression that it is a living, thinking entity.
Liz Plank reminds us that there is one respect in which the US lags all other World Cup competitors.
This week at the Bucks County Beacon I looked at the proposed reform bill for the state's long-time voucher program.
This selection doesn't really require an explanation.
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