Sean Gill
@seangill.bsky.social
Education consultant, writer and analyst. Looking for strategy & insights to take your org to the next level? Let's connect.
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It’s been obvious for decades that distributed solar and interconnected microgrids are a far more reliable solution for Puerto Rico. Adjuntas proves it.
Sadly, “the U.S. Department of Energy plans to redirect $365 million previously earmarked for rooftop solar toward the fossil-fuel-powered grid.”
Sadly, “the U.S. Department of Energy plans to redirect $365 million previously earmarked for rooftop solar toward the fossil-fuel-powered grid.”
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
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Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It’s been obvious for decades that distributed solar and interconnected microgrids are a far more reliable solution for Puerto Rico. Adjuntas proves it.
Sadly, “the U.S. Department of Energy plans to redirect $365 million previously earmarked for rooftop solar toward the fossil-fuel-powered grid.”
Sadly, “the U.S. Department of Energy plans to redirect $365 million previously earmarked for rooftop solar toward the fossil-fuel-powered grid.”
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We talked about this in my class. People (& lenders!) need to have credible information about climate risk to their homes. However the way it is done right now, if at all, has lots of uncertainty. A home could be categorized as low-risk when it’s high risk, & vice versa! NOAA should do this service.
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We talked about this in my class. People (& lenders!) need to have credible information about climate risk to their homes. However the way it is done right now, if at all, has lots of uncertainty. A home could be categorized as low-risk when it’s high risk, & vice versa! NOAA should do this service.
Essays such as these always incoherent because they presume a golden era of public education that never existed
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Essays such as these always incoherent because they presume a golden era of public education that never existed
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Easy to miss the day before Thanksgiving, but Treasury has issued a 21-page request for comment on regs for the new federal school voucher program. Due one month from today, so let's get on it, edu-friends! h/t @politico.com @mackwilkes.bsky.social!
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Treasury, IRS request comments on implementation of the new federal tax credit for individual contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill | Internal Revenue ...
IR-2025-115, Nov. 25, 2025 — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued Notice 2025-70, requesting comments on the implementation of a new tax credit for individuals ...
www.irs.gov
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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For sure
genuinely think the USPS would make legitimate money selling serious merch via collabs with fashion brands
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
For sure
White House intends to move day-to-day management of most K12 federal programs (Title 1, et al) to Department of Labor. Looks like really only special ed was left out. #edpolicy www.ed.gov/media/docume...
www.ed.gov
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
White House intends to move day-to-day management of most K12 federal programs (Title 1, et al) to Department of Labor. Looks like really only special ed was left out. #edpolicy www.ed.gov/media/docume...
Released today: @tcfdotorg.bsky.social cites a toxic combination of increasing energy prices, rising overdue balances, and squeezed household budgets that together are pushing families deeper and deeper into utility debt. tcf.org/content/comm...
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Released today: @tcfdotorg.bsky.social cites a toxic combination of increasing energy prices, rising overdue balances, and squeezed household budgets that together are pushing families deeper and deeper into utility debt. tcf.org/content/comm...
The families Ted Koppel speaks to here (with compassion and care) will challenge your perception of who is “homeless”. The folks you might see on the street in a tent are just the leading edge of bad urban planning & market failures when it comes to #housing www.cbsnews.com/video/when-t...
When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
www.cbsnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The families Ted Koppel speaks to here (with compassion and care) will challenge your perception of who is “homeless”. The folks you might see on the street in a tent are just the leading edge of bad urban planning & market failures when it comes to #housing www.cbsnews.com/video/when-t...
Looking for a very reasonable take on the shutdown “deal”? @jpos.bsky.social has one open.substack.com/pub/reasonab...
Dems Deal -- Cave or Clever?
Wins happened
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November 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Looking for a very reasonable take on the shutdown “deal”? @jpos.bsky.social has one open.substack.com/pub/reasonab...
Nuance in data... is the value of a "college degree" in decline? Not really if it's a *Four-year degree*. Sharp analysis here - why it's so important to maintain the #eddata NCES and others collect at a national level. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
Is college enrollment really plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Nuance in data... is the value of a "college degree" in decline? Not really if it's a *Four-year degree*. Sharp analysis here - why it's so important to maintain the #eddata NCES and others collect at a national level. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
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"AI systems built to “flag” books are not neutral.
They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
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They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"AI systems built to “flag” books are not neutral.
They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
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#EdData and #IES is part of the overlooked infrastructure that supports education. What happens when the well runs dry? @rebeccasibilia.bsky.social
Federal Data Is the Basis for Everything We Know About Schools. It Must Be Saved
Roy & Sibilia: NCES must have the resources to fulfill its mission, or America will be making decisions about schools based on hunches, not facts.
www.the74million.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
#EdData and #IES is part of the overlooked infrastructure that supports education. What happens when the well runs dry? @rebeccasibilia.bsky.social
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
Without immigration the #school-age population in the US will decline. It already is in many cities. I’m guessing that overall we’ll decrease spending in real terms on schooling as people live longer and need more services as senior citizens #edfinance #edpolicy
Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves through economies.
People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy
Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves through economies.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Without immigration the #school-age population in the US will decline. It already is in many cities. I’m guessing that overall we’ll decrease spending in real terms on schooling as people live longer and need more services as senior citizens #edfinance #edpolicy
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"Without this information, there is no way to know how schools are working to address academic and opportunity disparities — particularly for Black and Latino students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities and those from low-income backgrounds." www.the74million.org/article/givi...
Giving States Waivers From Accountability Is a Dangerous Step Backward for Kids
Forte: By loosening testing and reporting requirements, Education Department is denying parents, teachers and policymakers important information.
www.the74million.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"Without this information, there is no way to know how schools are working to address academic and opportunity disparities — particularly for Black and Latino students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities and those from low-income backgrounds." www.the74million.org/article/givi...
Tutoring! @matthewakraft.com sees a path for sustaining it, perhaps with an assist from #GenAI. But will probably take longer than people think #edchat #edpolicy #edtech thefutureoftutoring.substack.com/p/q-and-a-ma...
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Tutoring! @matthewakraft.com sees a path for sustaining it, perhaps with an assist from #GenAI. But will probably take longer than people think #edchat #edpolicy #edtech thefutureoftutoring.substack.com/p/q-and-a-ma...
Bill DeBlasio (who is not the former nyc mayor named Bill de Blasio) “used ChatGPT to compose a response criticizing Mamdani’s tax plans, in particular, as unlikely to raise the requisite revenue.”
🟡 NEW: The man at the heart of a mixup that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio, nor a “de Blasio impersonator.”
British newspaper spoke to the wrong DeBlasio, not an ‘imposter’
How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.
www.semafor.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Bill DeBlasio (who is not the former nyc mayor named Bill de Blasio) “used ChatGPT to compose a response criticizing Mamdani’s tax plans, in particular, as unlikely to raise the requisite revenue.”
"Good people are afraid of being seen as Luddites." writes
Andy Smarick for the @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
#edpolicy #genAI #AI #education thedispatch.com/article/arti...
Andy Smarick for the @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
#edpolicy #genAI #AI #education thedispatch.com/article/arti...
It’s Time for a Moratorium on AI in Schools
The rush to allow AI into the classroom will harm students and schools for decades.
thedispatch.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"Good people are afraid of being seen as Luddites." writes
Andy Smarick for the @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
#edpolicy #genAI #AI #education thedispatch.com/article/arti...
Andy Smarick for the @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
#edpolicy #genAI #AI #education thedispatch.com/article/arti...
#EdData and #IES is part of the overlooked infrastructure that supports education. What happens when the well runs dry? @rebeccasibilia.bsky.social
Federal Data Is the Basis for Everything We Know About Schools. It Must Be Saved
Roy & Sibilia: NCES must have the resources to fulfill its mission, or America will be making decisions about schools based on hunches, not facts.
www.the74million.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
#EdData and #IES is part of the overlooked infrastructure that supports education. What happens when the well runs dry? @rebeccasibilia.bsky.social
This is truly baffling to someone who lives in a west coast city that has mandated composting for more than a decade
You can now drop off your food scraps at 13 Chicago public library locations: blockclubchi.co/3LdivBa
October 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This is truly baffling to someone who lives in a west coast city that has mandated composting for more than a decade
Seattle has like two parades a year and both of them are sponsored by Alaska Airlines. But maybe this year maybe we'll get a third?? ⚾
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
October 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Seattle has like two parades a year and both of them are sponsored by Alaska Airlines. But maybe this year maybe we'll get a third?? ⚾
Curious to see this bill vetoed; annual audits often not likely to be timely or extensive enough to get to root of operational problems nor do they provide insights of program ineffectiveness. Neither the district, county, or state dept of ed currently equipped edsource.org/2025/newsom-...
Newsom veto stalls California’s push to curb charter school fraud
The bipartisan oversight bill was rejected as “too costly” and overlooks some of the recommendations by a task force, leaving reforms on hold until 2026.
edsource.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Curious to see this bill vetoed; annual audits often not likely to be timely or extensive enough to get to root of operational problems nor do they provide insights of program ineffectiveness. Neither the district, county, or state dept of ed currently equipped edsource.org/2025/newsom-...
Charter authorizing is hard work - especially if your small district soon finds itself serving thousands of students across a state. Long been Qs about the efficacy of virtual schools, and if the charter model provides best vehicle for designing and overseeing them www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A virtual education company was a lifeline to a rural district. Now they're at war.
What began as an emergency option for New Mexico students during the pandemic has spiraled into dueling lawsuits and drawn government scrutiny.
www.nbcnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Charter authorizing is hard work - especially if your small district soon finds itself serving thousands of students across a state. Long been Qs about the efficacy of virtual schools, and if the charter model provides best vehicle for designing and overseeing them www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"In theory, almost all Americans profess to be pluralist liberals. In reality, both the left and right struggle to accept those they find unsavory" @jtylersyck.bsky.social
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Lesson for Liberalism - Providence
Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that to form a pluralist society—one in which all traditions and ethnicities thrive—we must abandon our utopian visions
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October 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"In theory, almost all Americans profess to be pluralist liberals. In reality, both the left and right struggle to accept those they find unsavory" @jtylersyck.bsky.social
providencemag.com/2025/10/dani...
providencemag.com/2025/10/dani...