The Education Department has been repurposed to destabilize public education so they can privatize much of it.

The harm inflicted on children in the process is just another casualty of the Project 2025 education agenda.

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

We’d do well to be studying North Dakota c. 1900 right now I think www.pbs.org/video/part-1...

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Reinstate the fired four! psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...

I didn’t really put anything about this report but it looks really good—labor and green schools!

Yup yup yup labor4sustainability.org/files/Bargai...

Pretty excited to talk state funding formulas on a webinar with @ielconnects.bsky.social on 10/21 at 3pm EST!

Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That’s why we’re suing | Opinion

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Yeah…

Hmmmm. “I think there is one thing on which most people would agree: that the past fifty years have seen the debacles of two universalist ideologies: communism and neoliberalism. Both were defeated by the real world.” branko2f7.substack.com/p/defeated-b...

Support teacher Aiat Oraby. As a Jewish former teacher and now professor of education leadership, I feel less safe when Zionists repress reasonable critiques of injustice in Israel. actionnetwork.org/petitions/we...

GO GET THIS BOOK IT IS VERY GOOD www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

“Adults don’t look up”

I’ve sometimes wondered what Marxism is supposed to do with the fact that our understanding of material conditions is a feature of consciousness, which is supposed to be formed by material conditions. Great essay! salvage.zone/beyond-folk-...

It’s hard to identify anything functional about Trumpian stupidity, which is less a form of organizational inertia than a slash-and-burn assault on the very things—universities, public health, market data—that help make the world intelligible. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Another way of looking at this same picture: The euro zone is a system that use the leverage of a central bank outside the control of national governments to force deep austerity on countries like Spain, which sent them into deep depressions that created fiscal deficits that didn't previously exist.

We should just replace these markets w/ direct federal grants. @wbmosler.bsky.social @schooldaves.bsky.social #MMT

"What would it mean to democratize school resources? What would it mean to have truly public schools, down to the very means of resource creation and distribution that fuels them...? What will it take to make schools as public as possible?" @schooldaves.bsky.social

Super honored to be presenting at the National Association for Family, School, and Engagement's assembly today online at 11am EST. I'll be talking about my recent work to help communities and movements analyze and advocate for healthy school finance. www.engagementassembly.org/event/1aec8e...

Setting aside the philosophical questions about the relationship between higher ed and democracy, accepting this compact is to accept lies about the history of higher education. I wrote a whole book about it. adamhsays.substack.com/p/a-raw-new-...

Here's that thread on governance reforms in state public higher ed systems in the neoliberal era:

First, we need a bit of background. Between ~1920 and ~1970, higher ed exploded, largely because of the growth of public unis. Legislatures were overwhelmed. They built bureaucracies to plan sectorwide

I’m not sure the left is that good and speaking to the larger terrain, but we’re getting better at it. Riley argues here that breaking the university essentially breaks the leash on the left viz. wider society. One can hope and try! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Popular consensus is that we're at the beginning of a 50-year Kondratiev wave, with AI powering the next boom. But it's just as likely we're at the end of a 50-year Pérez wave, where AI is a speculative, relatively arcane investment that we've settled on after the other growth opportunities dried up