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Professor, Education Finance & Policy Personal Website: https://schoolfinance101.com School Finance Indicators Database: https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/ Books: https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcNs... Now that I've seen it (and we've described it) I can't unsee it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEiQ... On uncommon solutions and common problems/patterns across metros
Thoughts on our new book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXTd... On the costs of policy induced racial isolation
Our friends at @statecourtreport.org generously ran a blog post I first did a few weeks back on "The 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 Declarations of 1776" & the April 10 conference that @ij.org & the Liberty & Law Center are sponsoring.
"1776 was a big year."
statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
Especially where readily available extant data allow for a quick 'n dirty RD or DiD estimate of some compelling causal effect that can be multiplied for shock effect in the paper's conclusions. Might even generate 3 to 5 similar papers, but still distract from larger lit (largely ignoring it).
Yea the media and academics outside the space can often just point to that one paper (that they rarely read) as if there's not a larger body of work (that can contradict that paper in meaningful ways when thinking about practical implications)
And I have a feeling that oftentimes those who temporarily swoop in do so with a flashy project that sucks a lot of oxygen out of the field, leaving it worse off, not better.
Always weird to me when a set of researchers swoop in to do a study on an area and then disappear in a cloud of smoke while the rest of us just keep chipping away at projects trying to better understand the issue
Annie Abrams is doing some of the best commentary on ongoing efforts to make k-12 teaching increasingly rigid and unimaginative, with teachers themselves enjoined to be little more than automatons. Strong pressure to use teaching scripts — scripts that encourage children to memorize but not think.
Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social nails it. Again.
presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...
Today’s horror. On top of several others.
And for more detail on that inequality piece in Michigan
Even Mississippi - which has cut effort - reducing estimated revenues by 12.5%, but nothin' like Florida
Others, like New Jersey, have done much better on maintaining effort:
Florida school revenue could be 28.8% higher if we just maintained the level of effort of the early 2000s.
We must turn the corner - but - averages do hide a tale of diverging trends across states:
Let’s get one thing straight: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian.
Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
The response is….comprehensive.
“not one of the recommendations was a new idea to NCES,” said Peggy Carr. “Many had already been implemented or we were working on when the center was dismantled."
Great reporting by @jillbarshay.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Normally when someone is this deluded, you'd ask them to name the president to see how far they're really gone
Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.
Meanwhile Texas is denying Muslim schools the ability to participate in the state’s new school voucher scheme.
In case anyone’s wondering how “education freedom” is going down there or what it’s really about
Marco Rubio asked Trump for permission to speak Spanish at the Shield Summit of the Americas, while Pete Hegseth insulted Spanish-speakers by claiming he “only speaks American.” My take on how Rubio’s continued bootlicking demeans the office & our country’s global standing.
youtu.be/o6yk2YsKzKw?...
✨ Congratulations to Professor Norma V. Cantú, Chair of the MALDEF Board of Directors, on receiving the 2026 Impacto Award from the American Bar Association! This honor recognizes her lifelong dedication to creating opportunities and advancing justice for the Latino community.
Part of my disgust and disdain for so many people in this country is that that they are so easily duped. All that fuck has to do is call some egregious bill the “SAVE AMERICA” act and the stupids rush to vote against their own interests, while accusing us of not wanting to “save America”.
"total abortion bans reduced rents...with the effect reaching 4.0% in the most recent year...bans increased rental vacancy rates...with the effect reaching 1.8 percentage points in the most recent year. Estimates for home values and homeowner vacancy rates are similar" www.nber.org/papers/w34921
Tracks a bit like the valuation of his own entrepreneurial endeavors (steaks, airline, university, casinos)? except for the upward part on the front end.
this is what happens when you elect someone based on the premise that he's such a successful businessman
