National Education Policy Center
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NEPC is a university research center housed at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education. Find us at nepc.colorado.edu.
Despite some claims to the contrary, the new federal private school choice program is not “free money.” bit.ly/4bzC9mo
No Free Lunch: The Real Costs of the Federal Education Vouchers
Despite some claims to the contrary, the new federal private school choice program is not “free money.”
nepc.colorado.edu
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Despite some claims to the contrary, the new federal private school choice program is not “free money.” bit.ly/4bzC9mo
New NEPC Review: @newamerica.org report offers a helpful starting point for policy discussions focused on redistricting to address fiscal and demographic inequities across districts.
@christocleve.bsky.social bit.ly/49YimKH
@christocleve.bsky.social bit.ly/49YimKH
NEPC Review: Redrawing the Lines: How Purposeful School System Redistricting Can Increase Funding Fairness and Decrease Segregation (New America, September 2025)
A New America report argues that states can improve educational equity by redrawing school district boundaries to reduce fiscal and demographic disparities. It models three approaches: blank-slate dis...
nepc.colorado.edu
January 29, 2026 at 3:01 PM
New NEPC Review: @newamerica.org report offers a helpful starting point for policy discussions focused on redistricting to address fiscal and demographic inequities across districts.
@christocleve.bsky.social bit.ly/49YimKH
@christocleve.bsky.social bit.ly/49YimKH
An upcoming webinar and a new report offer practical advice on implementing “balanced assessment,” a research-based approach designed to improve testing in K-12 education. @nciea.bsky.social bit.ly/4bgGpqF
Does K-12 Testing Need a Tune-Up?
An upcoming webinar and a new report offer practical advice on implementing “balanced assessment,” a research-based approach designed to improve testing in K-12 education.
nepc.colorado.edu
January 27, 2026 at 3:24 PM
An upcoming webinar and a new report offer practical advice on implementing “balanced assessment,” a research-based approach designed to improve testing in K-12 education. @nciea.bsky.social bit.ly/4bgGpqF
New NEPC Review: CRPE’s proposed systemwide reforms rest on limited evidence and offer little concrete guidance for protecting students with disabilities. @federicowaitoller.bsky.social @crpe.bsky.social bit.ly/4a5SDRP
NEPC Review: Outmatched: Special Education Can’t Solve Problems Rooted in the Education Delivery System (Center on Reinventing Public Education, October 2025)
While U.S. special education has advanced civil rights and educational equity, critics continue to highlight inequities in labeling, segregation, and academic expectations. A recent CRPE report argues...
nepc.colorado.edu
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
New NEPC Review: CRPE’s proposed systemwide reforms rest on limited evidence and offer little concrete guidance for protecting students with disabilities. @federicowaitoller.bsky.social @crpe.bsky.social bit.ly/4a5SDRP
NEPC’s Most Popular Newsletters of 2025 bit.ly/4k8Cr61
NEPC’s Most Popular Newsletters of 2025
DEI, social media bans, private school vouchers costs, public-private partnerships in the developing world, and federal education funding were the topics of the most popular NEPC newsletters of 2025.
nepc.colorado.edu
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
NEPC’s Most Popular Newsletters of 2025 bit.ly/4k8Cr61
New NEPC Review: @bellwetherorg.bsky.social report promotes AI’s inevitability while overlooking contextual complexity and potential harms. bit.ly/4sF8VbG
NEPC Review: Measuring Artificial Intelligence in Education (Bellwether, October 2025)
Because AI-powered technologies are rapidly proliferating in education, educators face urgent challenges in evaluating their impacts. Bellwether’s recent report seeks to address this by promoting logi...
nepc.colorado.edu
January 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM
New NEPC Review: @bellwetherorg.bsky.social report promotes AI’s inevitability while overlooking contextual complexity and potential harms. bit.ly/4sF8VbG
In this month's NEPC Talks Education podcast: An interview with Roseann Liu and David Backer about their unique approaches to K-12 school finance research @schooldaves.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/49kRTbp
NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Roseann Liu and David Backer About School Finance
University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Roseann Liu and David Backer about their approaches to K-12 school finance research and why understanding the human d...
nepc.colorado.edu
January 13, 2026 at 3:48 PM
In this month's NEPC Talks Education podcast: An interview with Roseann Liu and David Backer about their unique approaches to K-12 school finance research @schooldaves.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/49kRTbp
Does Florida law even provide for a wheel for someone to be asleep at?
Running deficits for years, but parents were not warned. So they snuck in the shutdown over the holiday break. Who was asleep at the wheel? @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nepc.bsky.social @mattbarnum.bsky.social @floridaea.bsky.social @damarisallen.bsky.social vimeo.com/1151991494?s...
Charter schools shuts leaving families without a school
Legends Academy had been in trouble for years--but did not tell parents. Why were they running such huge deficits in a state that generously funds charter schools?…
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January 7, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Does Florida law even provide for a wheel for someone to be asleep at?
Decades of fraud, waste and abuse in the charter-school sector, but very little awareness of this has broken through. The vast majority of people in the U.S. have little or no idea of what's happening. In fact, among state legislators, what portion really know?
Low family interest + for-profit operation shd have raised red flags for N.C. charter board. Right after opening, they shut it down, leaving kids stranded. Why did they approve it? @wileynickel.com @publicschoolsfirstnc.org @ncgovernor.bsky.social @mcolorado.bsky.social @nepc.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Decades of fraud, waste and abuse in the charter-school sector, but very little awareness of this has broken through. The vast majority of people in the U.S. have little or no idea of what's happening. In fact, among state legislators, what portion really know?
The ways that many charters shape their enrollment should be big news. (And it's not just kids seen as behavioral problems. See www.tcpress.com/school%E2%80...)
Excellent work from @newskag.bsky.social.
@wagma.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social
www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
Excellent work from @newskag.bsky.social.
@wagma.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social
www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
It’s an open secret that some charter schools push out kids with behavioral problems, Philly principals say
Principals say students offloaded from charters to Philadelphia School District schools are often "counseled out," while they can't remove students from traditional public schools for those reasons.
www.inquirer.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The ways that many charters shape their enrollment should be big news. (And it's not just kids seen as behavioral problems. See www.tcpress.com/school%E2%80...)
Excellent work from @newskag.bsky.social.
@wagma.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social
www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
Excellent work from @newskag.bsky.social.
@wagma.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social
www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
When voters repeatedly vote down voucher initiatives but their governor invites them in...
Welner & Gebhardt do the easy lifting of explaining why that's not a good thing.
coloradosun.com/2025/12/16/o...
Welner & Gebhardt do the easy lifting of explaining why that's not a good thing.
coloradosun.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion: Take note, Gov. Polis: Coloradans have repeatedly said no to school vouchers
New federal program is a devil’s bargain and must not override the will of our people.
coloradosun.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
When voters repeatedly vote down voucher initiatives but their governor invites them in...
Welner & Gebhardt do the easy lifting of explaining why that's not a good thing.
coloradosun.com/2025/12/16/o...
Welner & Gebhardt do the easy lifting of explaining why that's not a good thing.
coloradosun.com/2025/12/16/o...
New NEPC Talks Education podcast: Jarvis Givens highlights the experiences of Black and Native Americans in the origin story of American education @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/4afqzft
NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Jarvis Givens About His Book, American Grammar: Race, Education and The Building of a Nation
University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Jarvis Givens about his book, American Grammar: Race, Education and The Building of a Nation, which offers a revised ...
nepc.colorado.edu
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New NEPC Talks Education podcast: Jarvis Givens highlights the experiences of Black and Native Americans in the origin story of American education @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/4afqzft
Yup. Or heavily stratifying opportunities (which is the equivalent of excluding children).
Goddamn it.
Here’s the bottom-line truth about ed finance. Education just costs a lot of money. You can make it marginally—marginally--more efficient, but you cannot make it cheap.
Anyone promising huge tax savings is talking about excluding children.
Here’s the bottom-line truth about ed finance. Education just costs a lot of money. You can make it marginally—marginally--more efficient, but you cannot make it cheap.
Anyone promising huge tax savings is talking about excluding children.
Fact check: School vouchers are never actually supposed to save taxpayers money. That is just not what they’re for, and it’s not what they do.
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yup. Or heavily stratifying opportunities (which is the equivalent of excluding children).
Opinion: Take note, Gov. Polis: Coloradans have repeatedly said no to school vouchers coloradosun.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion: Take note, Gov. Polis: Coloradans have repeatedly said no to school vouchers
New federal program is a devil’s bargain and must not override the will of our people.
coloradosun.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Opinion: Take note, Gov. Polis: Coloradans have repeatedly said no to school vouchers coloradosun.com/2025/12/16/o...
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“Meta’s use of algorithms in core operations conceals the extent to which it profits from business decisions that prioritize engagement over protecting the psychological health of young people.” @nepc.bsky.social
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The Hidden Dangers of Meta’s Partnership Offer to Schools
The company’s new Instagram School Partnership Program seems designed to make money. It’s not clear that it benefits schools.
progressive.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“Meta’s use of algorithms in core operations conceals the extent to which it profits from business decisions that prioritize engagement over protecting the psychological health of young people.” @nepc.bsky.social
progressive.org/public-schoo...
progressive.org/public-schoo...
New NEPC Review: Despite strong research evidence that increased school funding improves student outcomes, this
@brookings.edu report relies on simplistic statewide comparisons that obscure the true effects of investment in education. @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social bit.ly/3MDO3Rv
@brookings.edu report relies on simplistic statewide comparisons that obscure the true effects of investment in education. @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social bit.ly/3MDO3Rv
NEPC Review: A State-Level Perspective on School Spending and Educational Outcomes (Brookings Institution, September 2025)
A large and growing body of high-quality research shows that increased school funding improves student outcomes. A new Brookings Institution report examines this relationship but finds much smaller ef...
nepc.colorado.edu
December 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New NEPC Review: Despite strong research evidence that increased school funding improves student outcomes, this
@brookings.edu report relies on simplistic statewide comparisons that obscure the true effects of investment in education. @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social bit.ly/3MDO3Rv
@brookings.edu report relies on simplistic statewide comparisons that obscure the true effects of investment in education. @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social bit.ly/3MDO3Rv
This has been true for well over a decade.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This has been true for well over a decade.
nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...
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Making the Grade 2025: In an Uncertain Federal Policy Landscape, States Must Prioritize Fair School Funding edlawcenter.org/making-the-g...
Making the Grade 2025: In an Uncertain Federal Policy Landscape, States Must Prioritize Fair School Funding - Education Law Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWARK, N.J. – Today, Education Law Center released, Making the Grade: How Fair is School Funding in Your State?, the latest...
edlawcenter.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Making the Grade 2025: In an Uncertain Federal Policy Landscape, States Must Prioritize Fair School Funding edlawcenter.org/making-the-g...
A recent essay proposes using “responsible innovation” to design the AI-enabled edtech of the future. bit.ly/4iLtheX
What Is Responsible Innovation and How Might It Improve AI-Enabled Edtech?
A recent essay proposes using “responsible innovation” to design the AI-enabled edtech of the future.
nepc.colorado.edu
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A recent essay proposes using “responsible innovation” to design the AI-enabled edtech of the future. bit.ly/4iLtheX
This @chalkbeat article says NC Gov Stein announced his intention to opt into the voucher program. In fact, he vetoed a bill to do so & said he intends to opt in only after Trump's Treasury "issues sound guidance." He's waiting to see if the regs give NC flexibility
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Polis all in on Trump’s tax-credit scholarship while other Dem governors wait and see
The program is expected to expand private school choice in states like Colorado that don’t have voucher programs. Polis said not participating would mean leaving millions on the table.
www.chalkbeat.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This @chalkbeat article says NC Gov Stein announced his intention to opt into the voucher program. In fact, he vetoed a bill to do so & said he intends to opt in only after Trump's Treasury "issues sound guidance." He's waiting to see if the regs give NC flexibility
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
New @nccsa.bsky.social report points to “a culture of alienation and control” as part of a critique of a policy brief that found academic gains for New Orleans students as a result of charter conversions. bit.ly/48t4pDL
New Report Questions the Claimed Success of New Orleans’ Charter School Reform
A new report points to “a culture of alienation and control” as part of a critique of a policy brief that found academic gains for New Orleans students as a result of charter conversions.
nepc.colorado.edu
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New @nccsa.bsky.social report points to “a culture of alienation and control” as part of a critique of a policy brief that found academic gains for New Orleans students as a result of charter conversions. bit.ly/48t4pDL
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My deep dive on the latest attempt to open a religious charter school…with its for-profit operator in the shadows. @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nepc.bsky.social @floridaea.bsky.social dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/c...
Carol Burris: Another Religious Charter School Applies for Public Funding in Oklahoma, Backed by For-Profit Corporation
In this post, Carol Burris reviews the latest challenge to separation of church and state. A religious school has applied for public funding as an online charter school. But that’s not all: t…
dianeravitch.net
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My deep dive on the latest attempt to open a religious charter school…with its for-profit operator in the shadows. @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nepc.bsky.social @floridaea.bsky.social dianeravitch.net/2025/12/01/c...
Two NEPC talks, on screen-time reduction and Christian nationalism, are now available online. @jonsawyer.org @kevinkumashiro.com bit.ly/4ijOnkn
Resources on Screen-Time Reduction, Christian Nationalism Now Available
Two NEPC talks, on screen-time reduction and Christian nationalism, are now available online.
nepc.colorado.edu
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Two NEPC talks, on screen-time reduction and Christian nationalism, are now available online. @jonsawyer.org @kevinkumashiro.com bit.ly/4ijOnkn
So-called “education preserves” would protect rural communities at risk of losing their public schools to school choice sprawl. @drprestongreen.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social @schoolfinance101.bsky.social bit.ly/48oNmUy
Could “Education Preserves” Save Schools From Choice Sprawl?
So-called “education preserves” would protect rural communities at risk of losing their public schools to school choice sprawl.
nepc.colorado.edu
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
So-called “education preserves” would protect rural communities at risk of losing their public schools to school choice sprawl. @drprestongreen.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social @schoolfinance101.bsky.social bit.ly/48oNmUy
In this month's NEPC Talks Education podcast, Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth discuss the unprecedented challenges facing California school board members and how they navigate today's complex political landscape @juliemarsh.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/3X2Att2
NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth About School Boards Navigating Unprecedented Political Challenges
University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth about the unprecedented challenges facing California school board members and how t...
nepc.colorado.edu
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In this month's NEPC Talks Education podcast, Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth discuss the unprecedented challenges facing California school board members and how they navigate today's complex political landscape @juliemarsh.bsky.social @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/3X2Att2