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The Playbook of Oppression: Florida’s Book Bans Echo History’s Darkest Chapters. In a special op-ed for Islander News, Christina Bracken looks at the implications of a recent court decision knocking down part of Florida’s book ban law. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Christina Bracken: The Playbook of Oppression: Florida's Book Bans Echo History's Darkest Chapters - Network For Public Education

In a special op-ed for Islander News, Christina Bracken looks at the implications of a recent court decision knocking down part of Florida’s book ban law. When a Florida high school student couldn’t ...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 5h

Former Oklahoma school chief’s push to end standardized testing not likely to happen - Interesting take on the evolution of standardized testing and the damage it has done. oklahomavoice.com/2025/10/10/f... #EducationMatters

Former Oklahoma school chief's push to end standardized testing not likely to happen • Oklahoma Voice

Even though I would love to get rid of testing for accountability, as opposed to diagnostic purposes, it’s not going to happen soon.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

From: Nichiren and the Opening of the Eyes (Page 76)

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coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.social · 1d

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Network for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · 1d

South Bend forum speakers see charter schools and vouchers as threats to public education www.southbendtribune... #SchoolVoucherScam

South Bend forum speakers see charter schools and vouchers as threats to public education

NAACP South Bend calls for halt to charter schools until four criteria are met, saying Indiana police increases segregation, takes away funding

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline - No it should not even come near it. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EdTech

No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline

When folks go casting about for some use for AI in schools, the two items that frequently come up are brainstorming and outlining.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

M.I.T. Rejects Trump "Compact" That Offers Federal Money for Academic Freedom dianeravitch.net/2025/10/10/m... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

M.I.T. Rejects Trump “Compact” That Offers Federal Money for Academic Freedom

The Trump administration used a threat to try to cow leading universities to abandon their independence. The administration called their offer a “Compact,” but in reality it was an offe…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

Why the Federal Government Closed: It’s Ultimately About the Epstein Files - The shutdown is where fecal matter is about to hit the off-shore wind turbine. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Why the Federal Government Closed: It’s Ultimately About the Epstein Files

The shutdown is where fecal matter is about to hit the off-shore wind turbine.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike DeGuire: The Big Money Behind the Denver School Board Election dianeravitch.net/2025/10/10/m... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

Mike DeGuire: The Big Money Behind the Denver School Board Election

Veteran educator Mike DeGuire scoured through the public list of campaign contributions to the Denver school board elections. The pro-charter funders are made up of billionaires, charter school ope…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

How did your school do on state tests? Here’s the data for every San Diego County public school - Latest San Diego County and California school testing outcomes. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/09/h... #EducationMatters

How did your school do on state tests? Here’s the data for every San Diego County public school

More San Diego County students passed the tests than a year earlier. But performance still isn’t back to pre-pandemic levels.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

9 months in... Linda McMahon has increased the charter school fraud fest pot by another $50 million. This is bad governance. reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/9... #SickPolitics

9 months in…

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has been in her position for nine months and it is no surprise that she is advocating for school choice. McMahon is increasing access to choice&n…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

Profound bias was responsible for Catholics leaving the public education system. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

The Inconvenient Success of Mississippi - Now Mississippi wants to join Florida on the only metric that really matters: the Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom ranking. open.substack.com/pub/educatio... #Privatization

The Inconvenient Success of Mississippi

It's not just education reform skeptics who are giving the Mississippi Miracle the side eye

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

ProPublica: The Department of Education Wants to Destroy Public Schools - They found a recurring theme of a enticing more families to leave public schools. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/09/p... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

ProPublica: The Department of Education Wants to Destroy Public Schools

When Trump selected Linda McMahon as U.S. Secretary of Education, she knew that her job was to close down the Department. She has not been able to reach that goal yet, but she has devised means to …

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Judge Blocks New Hampshire’s Anti-Diversity Law open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

Federal Judge Blocks New Hampshire’s Anti-Diversity Law

From Forbes.com

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Resistance to Trump Regime Rising Despite Stephen Miller’s Hysterics - San Diego resistance calendar has more than 50 exercises of First Amendment rights, or, as the White House calls them, “antifa adjacent” actions. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #HealthyPolitics

Resistance to Trump Regime Rising Despite Stephen Miller’s Hysterics

Survey says—> more than 50 exercises of First Amendment rights or, as the White House calls them, “antifa adjacent” actions in San Diego.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner - A great friend and mentor. nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul... #EducationMatters

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

New Book Documents Trump Administration’s Actions to Destroy Diversity in Higher Education - Beginning in February, the Trump administration circulated threats against university efforts to promote DEI. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/n... via @janresseger #EducationMatters

New Book Documents Trump Administration’s Actions to Destroy Diversity in Higher Education

In his new book, The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, The Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, Yale University law professor, Justin Driver explores the history of the U.S. Supreme C…

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 2d

'Gifted and talented programs are popular among a set of upwardly-aspiring middle and upper class parents. Gifted and talented programs breed segregation and deficit thinking in the nation's public school system. Both are true at the same time.' thejosevilson.com/the-genius-o...

The Genius of Our Students | The Jose Vilson

How do we know our students are gifted? What do MacArthur genius award winners tell us about exceptional education? Read on for more!

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 2d

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Anti-Pope mania in the 19th century drove Catholics out of the public education system. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute - Anti-Catholic bigotry was a big driver. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

ICEing the Epstein Files - As happened in Washington DC, a Chicago grand jury has declined to indict protesters charged with interfering with ICE activities. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

ICEing the Epstein Files

Trump's Firehose of Lies About Resistance in Portland and Chicago

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

Writing for NPR, Cory Turner outlines what is on the line in the battle over the 2026 federal budget. Three proposals, and each is grim for education. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Cory Turner: What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget - Network For Public Education

Writing for NPR, Cory Turner outlines what is on the line in the battle over the 2026 federal budget. Three proposals, and each is grim for education. First up, President Trump’s proposed budget would...

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