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Annoying about ed policy and soccer. Analyst at NC Justice Center

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hey folks, I've got a new report out about how declining enrollment (often driven by intentional policies) is making life harder across North Carolina's schools. Please give it a read and let me know what you think:

#ncpol #EduSky

Navigating Declining Enrollment – North Carolina Justice Center

Navigating Declining Enrollment How smarter state policies can help schools thrive Download PDF Report Declining student enrollment poses unique challenges for school districts. …

www.ncjustice.org

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1h

Join me on Zoom Thursday 10/16 to hear about my report on declining school enrollment

Event Details:
📅 Date: October 16, 2025
⏰ Time: 12 – 1 PM
📍 Location: Via Zoom – Registration link below

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Navigating Declining Enrollment. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us to hear about how declining student enrollment poses unique challenges for school districts. It increases budget pressures in our already underfunded public schools. As pressures from declinin...

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 1h

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve yet to hear anyone explain how we can have both educational equity and private schools

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this wildcat

A picture of a fat ragdoll cat atop a rock amidst trees in front of a lake

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Belichick is a “longtime friend” of Marco Rubio 🚩🚩🚩

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Thom Tillis and Phil Berger personally intervened to make this happen

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Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

LOL, just seeing that they didn't even wait until the ink was dry to do it (via the Assembly's "The Caucus" newsletter)

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Others criticized the governor for waiting until the last possible day to act. NCGOP Chairman Jason Simmons said: “Republican legislators acted immediately while Governor Stein chose to belatedly act on a Friday afternoon.”

The NCGOP further claimed the “tools available in Iryna's Law were unable to be used within the justice system” while Stein waited to sign the bill. (Fact-check: The bill doesn’t take effect until December 1.)

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

What should I be doing financially to hedge against the bursting of the AI bubble?

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

If you're looking for a way to support excellent #ncpol reporting, @theassemblync.bsky.social is having a sale

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Republican tax cuts for corporations and wealthy North Carolinians are being paid off the backs of children and their families. This is the explicit trade-off NCGA leaders have made. I wish the press would do a better job of explaining it to their readers.

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"Distraught and pissed off": Businesses, providers sound alarm over cracks in NC child care industry • NC Newsline

Business owners and child care providers detail the crisis facing the child care industry in North Carolina

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

"unless states are guaranteed full flexibility to protect their students and taxpayers, opting in would mean ceding state authority to Washington and exposing students to the well-documented harms of today’s voucher programs"

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Federal Vouchers, Treasury Regulations, and State Flexibility

The 2025 Reconciliation Act, or “One Big Beautiful Bill,” creates a federal school choice program offering tax credits for donations to Scholarship Granting Organizations that fund private-school tuit...

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone explain the “can’t” part to me?

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Download Fotmob

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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 2d

The lawmaker accused of diluting the votes of Appalachian State students was honored in 2024 as a Distinguished Alumni of … Appalachian State www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-voters...

Why do voters at Appalachian State keep getting picked on?

A new lawsuit is trying to overturn state laws that made it harder for students in Boone to have a voice in county politics. Who created those laws? A proud and powerful App State grad, that's who.

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 2d

If you give it a try, I’m happy to serve as a taste tester

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U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @usmnt.ussoccer.com · 3d

Wishing a happy birthday to Tim Ream! 🎉

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Half-baked idea to limit grappling on corner kicks: If the ref sees you grappling/wrestling another player pre-kick, you have to go stand on the other side of the midfield line until the corner kick is taken. The lectures aren't working.

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 3d

MLS 360 is way better than Premier League Goal Rush

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Release the Sanchez Tapes

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 3d

They're still going to call you soft on crime even if you vote for their racist moral panic bill

#ncpol

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

correspondent for The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 5d

Another reason why economic precarity might be tougher to notice in common economic indicators

VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 5d

Administrative data from US workers' paycheques and firms' payrolls show considerable monthly fluctuations in earnings. Pay instability is widespread and represent a genuine, welfare-relevant risk.
@ganong.bsky.social, P Noel, C Patterson, J Vavra, A Weinberg
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Graph of the heterogeneity of earnings volatility for salaried and hourly workers measured as a change from the previous month.

Over the past decade, cities and states in the US have enacted ‘fair workweek’ laws to stabilise worker schedules. This column uses administrative data on US workers’ paycheques and firms’ payrolls to document considerable monthly fluctuations in earnings. Pay instability is widespread, disproportionately hits lower‑paid hourly workers, and is largely driven by firms’ labour demand rather than worker-related determinants such as childcare demands. These fluctuations represent genuine, welfare-relevant risk that materially shapes household decisions and has attendant effects on the economy.

Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 6d

The Raichik legacy

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 6d

Kids can sound-out words they see, but, due to an over-emphasis on phonics, they don’t understand what they’re reading

NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 6d

More North Carolina first- and second-graders are reading on grade level than just a few years ago, but the latest state data shows little progress for third-graders — the group most closely tied to promotion and retention decisions under state law. ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-ea... #ncpol

NC early reading gains steady, but third-grade scores decline • NC Newsline

North Carolina's new Read to Achieve report shows early literacy gains are strong in grades 1 and 2, but 3rd-grade proficiency slipped.

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