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This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): Teaching IS political , and this both sideism op ed is terrible. It’s a companion to the mealy mouthed piece from Times editorial board earlier this week […]
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
Teaching IS political , and this both sideism op ed is terrible. It’s a companion to the mealy mouthed piece from Times editorial board earlier this week —— www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
apnews.com/article/mass… A town refuses to give up the school’s Native American mascot — and gets Trump’s support
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
apnews.com/article/trum… Door knocks and DNA tests: How the Trump administration plans to keep tabs on 450,000 migrant kids
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fresno Unified trustee Susan Wittrup and the Fresno Teacher Association argued that the district needed an outsider to transform a failing culture.
— EdSource (@edsource.org) May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Funds for Low-Income Students Are on the Chopping Block in Trump’s Budget www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There’s value in fighting back——-Trump administration settles with Maine over funding freeze after dispute over trans athletes www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows the fallacy of ‘doing your own research www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
With more than half of the Education Department’s civil rights offices closed and the division reduced to a fraction of its former staff, families’ pleas for updates and action have gone unheard. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Texas governor signs largest US school voucher law in win for conservatives www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
apnews.com/article/scho… The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hey, Oklahoma students. Here’s your real ‘election fraud’ primer. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
DOGE cuts threaten Sacramento student mentorship program https://t.co/lfotAoWZ36
— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) May 3, 2025
Trump Asks Congress to Slash Billions in Education Funding—and ‘Preserve’ Title I is from Ed Week.
Even as Greg Abbott and Jeff Yass were clinking glasses yesterday to celebrate the passage of school vouchers, candidates who ran as education extremists got wiped out in one school board race after another www.newsweek.com/texas-school…
— Jennifer Berkshire (@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures www.newyorker.com/books/under-…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How Sackets Harbor did ithttps://t.co/LNx4yVVjpe via @opinion
— Alexander Russo (@alexanderrusso) May 4, 2025
All the answers the students got correct on the state test are because of my teaching, and anything they got wrong is the responsibility of other teachers.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A remarkable nugget on Texas voucher eligibility: “The program excludes students whose parents cannot prove their child is a U.S. citizen.”
— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
“It makes it easier to prosecute not just educators or librarians, but also parents and medical professionals, while simultaneously adding vagueness to the definition of what is prohibited.”
— Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Is This the End of the Separation of Church and State? | The New Yorker https://t.co/ohy1Ghyx0k
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 5, 2025
