Dissertation proposal successfully defended!

I’ll be a panelist on an upcoming webinar about the state takeover of Houston ISD:
unlv.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us Friday 3/21 for a discussion with takeover experts @domingomorel.bsky.social, @bethschueler.bsky.social, and Steven Nelson about this critical topic.

Our friends at Brookings have been preparing for this moment. www.brookings.edu/collection/w...

Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is a direct attack on the nation’s children and teachers. Today’s Executive Order will hurt public schools in both red and blue states, and across urban, rural, and suburban communities.

he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

Another way to put this:

Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

We should be absolutely clear what is at stake in the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate civil rights in education This is war; we should all be acting accordingly.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

“How can we, all of us, commit right now to a new kind of ‘public education’— not supplanting or replacing formal schools, but subverting an authoritarian grip on them?” inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

The TX voucher bill #SB2 has moved fast. Here are the steps:
💰 Defund public schools
😈 Demonize public schools, teachers & students
🔏 Privatize schools w a voucher
#txed #txlege
Thanks @texasobserver.org !

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

It’s hinted at in the article, but it needs to be emphasized how deeply the takeover of HISD has relied on fear and intimidation. Teachers and students are not just miserable; they’re made to feel constantly afraid as a force to motivate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Houston parents and community members from CVPE @houstoncvpe.bsky.social are at the Texas Capitol today engaging state legislators. Our asks: say NO to vouchers, return HISD to local control, and adopt enrollment-based funding for public education.

I'm hopeful this study affirms the critical organizing work that's happening at the grassroots and prompts more education researchers to pay attention to what's happening to Houston. 4/4

Specifically, I highlight the racialized discourses underpinning takeover and accountability policy, and show how members of the Houston community resisted the state's top-down implementation narrative. 3/4

The paper examines the competing discourses that state officials and community members used to frame the state takeover of HISD during a series of community information sessions hosted by TEA. 2/4

I'm pleased to share the publication of my article in @epaa.bsky.social: "'We are not your colony': Policy discourses and resistance in Texas’s takeover of Houston Independent School District." epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep... 1/4

Call for submissions for a special issue on state takeover!

I’ll be guest co-editing the Texas Education Review’s Summer 2025 special issue focusing on experiences of takeover. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are all invited to submit.

review.education.utexas.edu/call-for-sub...