Ajay Srikanth

GASP

Super cool to see an Indian American (with a dad from Chennai!) become a head coach in the WNBA.

As I read this, I keep thinking over and over again about the two major groups I see in politics and policy spaces: folks who take opinion polls as gospel and folks who see them as indicators of what people believe at the moment that can be *shaped* into something else.

Was just thinking about that research brief, thanks! The Stealth Inequalities brief by @schoolfinance101.bsky.social talks about property tax rebates as a form of handouts to the rich.

Jack Ciattarelli's Tax Plan Is a Disaster For Schools AND Taxpayers Once again, here's the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, Jack Ciattarelli : Our property taxes are the highest in the nation...

New Post: Jack Ciattarelli's Tax Plan Is a Disaster For Schools AND Taxpayers jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/jack... The Republican candidate for NJ gov wants to take away state aid from the districts that need it most and give it to districts that already have the lowest property tax rates.

you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)

NJ Governor's Race and Education, Part I: Should NJ Become Mississippi? jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/nj-g... tl;dr No, it should not. Yet Jack Ciatterelli thinks southern states are the model for high-performing NJ schools.

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

This is a good idea in line with both desegregation and student learning research.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

People criticize schools for not teaching critical thinking. But it's ridiculous to think schools can save America from this crap.

This was so good, these players deserve to get paid and credible leadership.

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

This article, which will be published in Idaho Law Review, explains how states can save endangered rural school districts from voucher and charter school expansion.

Specifically, this article argues that states can define rural districts as "education preserves."

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School choice poses a unique threat to rural schools and districts. In this article (led by Dr. Preston Green and in collaboration with Drs. Bruce Baker and Julie Mead), we offer a potential solution. (Forthcoming in the Idaho law review). @drprestongreen.bsky.social @schoolfinance101.bsky.social

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

PRESERVING RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM THE THREAT OF VOUCHERS AND CHARTERS @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Screenshot of the abstract for "Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters." This article will appear in Idaho Law Review.

New publication:

Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters (forthcoming, Idaho Law Review)

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.

What the actual fuck.

US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”

Nate Silver argues that if it was fine to protest in 2020 because the protests were outdoors and the chance of covid transmission was low, it should have been fine to open the schools. Because we all know that school is also... wait a sec...

🍎 Are you sat? Today, IBO explains Fair Student Funding (School Allocation Memorandum #1), which makes up the largest share of most NYC schools' budgets.

➕ Two new funding weights were added in 2023-24, and IBO reviews how these changes affected school budgets.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children. “Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow.” [theatlantic.com]

May I just point out the schools damn well were open, but there was a real difference in HOW they were open, and difference correlated with MONEY? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.

Opinion | Who Cares if You’re Healthy, as Long as You Look Good?

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Opinion | We Are Not ‘Property of Donald Trump’

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...

I love this so much! Did you get a Honey Deuce cocktail? It might be my fav in person event of the year.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Education Department quietly removes rules for teaching English learners The move is an acceleration of President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring English the country’s “official language.”

Setting aside the awfulness of this, how in the world are you going to expect ELs to acquire English proficiency without any guidance? www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...