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Your go-to resource for Florida Education, Accountabaloney informs those who want to help protect and improve Florida’s public schools.
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"The bottom line: If Kamoutsas and other state officials truly believe in accountability, they’d demand it for all taxpayer-funded schools. And for all the students who attend them." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/12/10/k...
Maxwell: Florida education chief trashes public schools, ignores voucher school disasters
Florida’s new education chief got booed after trashing public schools while ignoring failures and even school closings in the state’s voucher-school system.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"The bottom line: If Kamoutsas and other state officials truly believe in accountability, they’d demand it for all taxpayer-funded schools. And for all the students who attend them." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/12/10/k...
On Wed, 12/10, public education advocates in #Florida have the opportunity to testify IN FAVOR of a bill. #SB318 separates FES voucher funding into a separate silo in the FEFP. Grab a few friends and speak up for fiscal accountability and transparency. m.flsenate.gov/Bill/318/2026
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
On Wed, 12/10, public education advocates in #Florida have the opportunity to testify IN FAVOR of a bill. #SB318 separates FES voucher funding into a separate silo in the FEFP. Grab a few friends and speak up for fiscal accountability and transparency. m.flsenate.gov/Bill/318/2026
“In the end, this is state-imposed ideology, and it limits the rights of the vast majority of #Florida parents who simply want the truth taught in classrooms.” m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“In the end, this is state-imposed ideology, and it limits the rights of the vast majority of #Florida parents who simply want the truth taught in classrooms.” m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Heads Up! Glenn Beck and M4L are celebrating the launch of GeorgeAI (“what AI in education has been waiting for”) apparently it will have “no hallucinations“ AND “no bias.” Right…
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Heads Up! Glenn Beck and M4L are celebrating the launch of GeorgeAI (“what AI in education has been waiting for”) apparently it will have “no hallucinations“ AND “no bias.” Right…
Always proud to be included on this list. Read them. Share them. Fight for the future of Public Schools. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Always proud to be included on this list. Read them. Share them. Fight for the future of Public Schools. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...
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Organized Abandonment: How Attacks on Public Systems Are Harming Parents and Children BRUCE LESLEY brucelesley.substack.com/p/organized-...
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Organized Abandonment: How Attacks on Public Systems Are Harming Parents and Children BRUCE LESLEY brucelesley.substack.com/p/organized-...
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Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
Why does anyone believe that more screens — now with AI — will improve K–12 education? accountabaloney.com/relationship...
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Why does anyone believe that more screens — now with AI — will improve K–12 education? accountabaloney.com/relationship...
Today was a rare day of reckoning in a Florida education committee. accountabaloney.com/whatever-cou...
“Whatever could go wrong, Has gone wrong” – Accountabaloney
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November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Today was a rare day of reckoning in a Florida education committee. accountabaloney.com/whatever-cou...
Apparently, the “Big Story” today includes a bit of Accountabaloney.
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Florida education officials to discuss how schools teach good vs. evil
A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
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November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Apparently, the “Big Story” today includes a bit of Accountabaloney.
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Recommended weekend listening: in a growing # of states, education policy reflects the vision of individual billionaires. We head to Florida, where @jasongarcia.bsky.social & @flbaloney.bsky.social help us get to the bottom of a controversial school privatization plan soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
HY#207 Under the Influence
Have You Heard heads to Florida, where education policy is increasingly being determined by wealthy donors. We meet a billionaire who has been putting big bucks behind a very particular vision for the
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November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Recommended weekend listening: in a growing # of states, education policy reflects the vision of individual billionaires. We head to Florida, where @jasongarcia.bsky.social & @flbaloney.bsky.social help us get to the bottom of a controversial school privatization plan soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
On the November FLBOE agenda:“Lawmakers promoting the bill said they did not intend to use the standards to indoctrinate children or spread fear, leaving the details to the Department of Education.”
“It’s a highly biased picture…”
#Florida
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“It’s a highly biased picture…”
#Florida
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Florida revives McCarthyism, anti-communism with classroom guidelines
Historians question whether proposed standards emphasize ideology over critical thinking.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
On the November FLBOE agenda:“Lawmakers promoting the bill said they did not intend to use the standards to indoctrinate children or spread fear, leaving the details to the Department of Education.”
“It’s a highly biased picture…”
#Florida
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“It’s a highly biased picture…”
#Florida
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#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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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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October 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#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
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Until the state releases the missing February data, we can’t fix what went wrong.
#Transparency first.
Release the Fourth Calculation
substack.com/home/post/p-...
“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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October 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“what’s really happening is the systematic removal of ideas the government doesn’t want made widely available.” @FLFreedomRead www.floridatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Trump admin going after special education with a hatchet in the dark of night seems like an issue the Dems could run with
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump admin going after special education with a hatchet in the dark of night seems like an issue the Dems could run with
"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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October 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
“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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October 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“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...
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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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October 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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
“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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October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“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...
Where’s that eating popcorn gif when you need it?
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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October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Where’s that eating popcorn gif when you need it?
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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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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September 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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.
#DecadeofAccountabaloney accountabaloney.com/a-decade-of-...
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.
#DecadeofAccountabaloney accountabaloney.com/a-decade-of-...
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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September 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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...
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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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September 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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...
“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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September 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“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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"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
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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September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"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