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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · 23h

#Florida’s Spring 2025 school funding shortfall wasn’t a glitch — it was a system failure.
Until the state releases the missing February data, we can’t fix what went wrong.
#Transparency first.
Release the Fourth Calculation
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Where Did The Money Go?

Florida’s school funding shortfall wasn’t a glitch — it was a system failure.Until the state releases the missing February data, we can’t fix what went wrong.Transparency first.Release the Fourth Calc...

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · 13d

“what’s really happening is the systematic removal of ideas the government doesn’t want made widely available.” @FLFreedomRead www.floridatoday.com/story/opinio...

Florida’s book bans aren’t about parents—they’re about control | Opinion

Opinion: Florida’s book bans aren’t about parental rights—they’re about controlling ideas. A local parent explains why this matters to all of us.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 14d

Trump admin going after special education with a hatchet in the dark of night seems like an issue the Dems could run with

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · 14d

"The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · 18d

“As conservative lawmakers promise to expand school choice next year, a handful of Mississippi cities are taking a public stand against the policy.” mississippitoday.org/2025/10/07/m...

Mississippi towns say no to school choice as state-level push continues - Mississippi Today

As conservative lawmakers promise to expand school choice next year, a handful of Mississippi cities are taking a public stand against the policy.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 21d

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools? - Just who wants us on this one? Well, scammers. And the folks who turned DEI into something to be avoided. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/03/h... via @nancyflanagan #EdTech

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools?

I haven’t written much about AI and education, for several reasons. First, there are already many people writing compellingly and with considerable expertise about the uses and misuses of AI in the…

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · 23d

“So many people who appear to be intelligent and well-educated who are harboring fantasy-based ideas about what AI is and what it does.” curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/10/rein...

"Reinventing Education for the Age of AI" (or Building a Better MOOC)

The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · 23d

Where’s that eating popcorn gif when you need it?

Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 23d

Oklahoma AG requests investigation of education department, 1 day after Walters resigns www.kosu.org/politics/202...

Oklahoma AG requests investigation of education department, 1 day after Walters resigns

The day after Ryan Walters officially resigned as Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, another state official is calling for a post-mortem on his spending at the State Department of Educat...

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 14

This week marks 10 years of Accountabaloney!
The mission is still the same: speak truth, defend public schools, and demand accountability.
Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, and stood with us along the way.
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A Decade of Accountabaloney – Accountabaloney

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 13

Profiteering at the Expense of Students, Families, and Taxpayers. Step Up's Marketplace traps students in an overpriced marketplace. #FLEducation #Florida accountabaloney.substack.com/p/profiteeri...

Profiteering at the Expense of Students, Families, and Taxpayers: Step Up's Marketplace

Students shouldn’t be trapped In a Marketplace full of overpriced choices. Families and taxpayers deserve better.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · Sep 7

There simply is no settled evidence that the US has a “crisis” in reading or that any specific reading program or reading theory has contributed significantly to low student reading proficiency. radicalscholarship.com/2025/08/12/w...

Why I Reject Crisis Rhetoric about Reading and Education: My Agenda

[Header Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash] When I had my OpEd on the manufactured reading crisis and NAEP misinformation published in The Washington Post, I anticipated that SOR advocates would conti…

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 6

…”If lawmakers were serious about reform, they would invest in proven strategies: smaller class sizes, mental health support, competitive teacher pay, and community schools that partner with families.” 2/2
#schoolsofnope

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Commentary: Florida doubles down on failed Schools of Hope experiment

Florida families want safe, strong schools. Florida taxpayers want accountability and value. Schools of Hope deliver neither.

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 6

“For eight years, the Schools of Hope program has drained public dollars, delivered mediocre results and weakened the very neighborhood schools that anchor our communities…” 1/2

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Commentary: Florida doubles down on failed Schools of Hope experiment

Florida families want safe, strong schools. Florida taxpayers want accountability and value. Schools of Hope deliver neither.

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Karen Pickell @karenpickell.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Nearly three in four, 71%, of faculty in Florida who were surveyed said they would not encourage a graduate student to seek employment in Florida." #Florida

Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 5

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, nearly a third of #Florida professors looking for work in another state floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/05/n...

Nearly a third of Florida professors looking for work in another state • Florida Phoenix

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, Florida faculty laid out their frustrations in a recent survey. In a Faculty in the ...

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 5

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, nearly a third of #Florida professors looking for work in another state floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/05/n...

Nearly a third of Florida professors looking for work in another state • Florida Phoenix

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, Florida faculty laid out their frustrations in a recent survey. In a Faculty in the ...

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
The end of critical thinking in the classroom...

Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · Sep 3

"A generation of novices." We've been asking for this for years. AI is just exceptionally able to walk into the gap we have created. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

The end of critical thinking in the classroom

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Just like with food stamps, taxpayers have a right to know that the money they’re providing for schools is actually funding a quality education."
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Maxwell: Food stamps have accountability. So should school vouchers

Scott Maxwell: It makes sense that Florida no longer allows food-stamp recipients to use their vouchers on junk food. The state should demand similar accountability for school vouchers to ensure pu…

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have a new essay up at @thebaffler.com about the right's turn against education-as-job-training. If you're wondering how we went from a decades-long national STEMergency to 'a flat earth curriculum is OK by us,' this is the piece for you! thebaffler.com/outbursts/un...

Uniform Policy | Jennifer C. Berkshire

Democrats must come up with a defense of public schools that goes beyond bloodless workforce preparation

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yet another reason #Florida’s school districts should refuse to participate in Step Up’s education marketplace and protect public schools for every child. accountabaloney.substack.com/p/from-publi...

From Public Good To Personal Gain: How Florida’s ESAs Invite Abuse

Yet another reason Florida’s school districts should refuse to participate in Step Up’s education marketplace and protect public schools for every child.

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Aug 26

"we’ve moved from school choice as a means of escaping ‘failing schools’ to escaping any kind of school. But the bottom line is that we’re just supposed to accept that ‘education freedom’ means that lots of schools will be closing." #savepublicschools
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Is Public Education Over?

It's been a tough summer for public school supporters

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Aug 22

"relying on private markets to educate America’s youth makes it harder to create equal opportunity for children to learn and be economically successful, leaving the country less prosperous and more divided." theconversation.com/why-america-...

Why America still needs public schools

Two legal scholars argue that public education helps the US maintain the nation’s fundamental values of equality and fairness – and recent attacks put them at risk.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · Aug 22

In 2020, @jackschneider.bsky.social & I wrote a book called A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. We warned that the vision of the future was *unbundling* in which school = whatever education content consumers purchase. As @flbaloney.bsky.social reports, the future is here substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Selling Florida's Public Schools, Piece by Piece

How Step Up for Students is recruiting school boards into the unbundling of public schools

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Trump administration has rescinded federal guidance that spelled out schools’ legal obligations to accommodate students who are learning English, the Washington Post reports. About one in ten Florida students is recorded as an English language learner.
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Education Department quietly removes rules for teaching English learners

The move is an acceleration of President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring English the country’s “official language.”

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Accountabaloney @flbaloney.bsky.social · Aug 22

Good advice for #Florida's school board members "School districts caught in the state’s wrath need to ignore the drama, press for legal clarity if standoffs arise and refocus public attention on student needs and achievement." www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

Why the anger and threats over Florida’s schools? | Column

Another front in Tallahassee’s us versus them culture wars.

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coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.social · Aug 22

Selling Florida’s Public Schools, Piece by Piece – Accountabaloney accountabaloney.com/selling-flor...

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