Need an investigation on what happened to spring. Let’s get some subpoenas going, angry letters, press conferences, etc

I wanted to better understand how a Supreme Court decision on social media might effect school board members and their constituents. It's probably easier now for school board members to block people — but there's still a lot of unanswered questions. chalkbeat.org/2024/03/20/sup…

March Madness: If the tournament celebrated colleges for moving graduates up the income ladder, Saint Peter's University would be champion buff.ly/4csl4IQ

I looked at growing efforts to curb private equity expansion into child care for my latest The Hechinger Report early education newsletter hechingerreport.org/curbing-privat…

Why was this Alabama library director fired? I got an answer from the library board director. And then another, and another ... You just have to read it. al.com/news/2024/03/w…

Amen to all of this (re: FAFSA, but also in general). “if you care about equity, you have to care about state capacity.” Good policy is not enough. You have to fund and care about the non sexy stuff. You have to staff and manage the implementation. eatingpolicy.substack.com/p/upset-about-…

If you care about things like equal rights, reproductive care, voting rights, school funding, or gerrymandering, you care about what state courts are up to.

AND you should sign up for the State Court Report newsletter (scroll to bottom). statecourtreport.org
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We took Flat Stanley to a Wizards game this winter. Love the little guy!

We like to pretend we're a DIY society--that we can get by without a safety net. But that illusion ignores the unpaid and underpaid work women do to hold it together. And it ignores the way care links our fates.

A hole in one part of the web of care will quickly unravel the rest

Moving away from “census-based” special education funding would be the right move for NJ. Only 10 states still use this outdated method of funding that could seriously underfund the needs of vulnerable students. njspotlightnews.org/2024/03/local-…

First time A.I. has been mentioned in a State of the Union

Powerful untapped resource to combat chronic absenteeism? School nurses, according to ⁦Mizzou⁩ study.

“Many people think our primary focus is to send children home, but actually our focus is to keep kids in school,” said ⁦NASN, Inc.⁩ prez the74million.org/article/new-st…

Jill Biden launched a Women for Biden-Harris program to mobilize women voters. darlene superville apnews.com/article/jill-b…

So, basically - 'good dads' take a little bit of leave but then go back to the office, while 'good moms' stay home indefinitely while somehow also keeping their paid jobs. *sigh*

'Holding school systems accountable for their lowest-performing students was working — until policymakers decided the pressure wasn’t worth it.'

Chad Aldeman's latest is a must-read and includes some compelling (and interactive!) graphics.

Somewhere in Alabama there is at least one woman, hoping IVF could help her have a baby, who just saw several thousand dollars and ~7-10 days of injecting herself with drugs all go down the drain.

A MATH EXERCISE: Trump's immunity appeal paused his D.C. trial on Dec. 7 — with 88 days to go until his March 4 trial was set to begin.

That means, if SCOTUS sends the case back to Chutkan, she will give Trump roughly 88 days to prepare for trial ... politico.com/news/2024/02/1…

A large and growing share of referrals to juvenile justice come (directly or indirectly) from SCHOOLS.

Joint with Andrea M. Headley, PhD and Steve B. Holt, we explore this phenomenon and its implications in a new Annenberg Institute at Brown WP: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-907

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When it comes to the border, 'it really is in the Democrats hands about whether they’re going to continue to lose on this or reframe it,' says Lanae Erickson. More on the shifting landscape of border politics: usnews.com/news/politics/…

SCOOP: The Education Department is extending its student loan relief talks, per an email sent to members of the committee today.

The decision to add a fourth round (to be held Feb. 22 and 23) comes after mounting pressure from advocates/progressive Dems. usatoday.com/story/news/edu…