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Indiana colleges cut hundreds of low-enrollment degree programs ahead of state mandate • Indiana Capital Chronicle Six of Indiana’s public colleges and universities are cutting or consolidating more than 400 academic degree programs.

Indiana colleges cut hundreds of low-enrollment degree programs ahead of state mandate indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/01/i...

Carol Burris: Update on the School Funds in Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Bill Most attention has focused on the horrible cuts to Medicaid and food assistance (SNAP) in the bill just passed by the GOP majority in the Senate. It has some differences with the version passed by …

Carol Burris: Update on the School Funds in Trump's Big Ugly Budget Bill dianeravitch.net/2025/07/01/c...

A Personal Report to My Friends Who Read the Blog I spent this past weekend at my sixty-fifth reunion at Wellesley College. Since I graduated in 1960, I have never missed one. Part of my faithfulness is grounded in nostalgia, in a chance to relive…

A Personal Report to My Friends Who Read the Blog

Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets • Stateline The price of vouchers and scholarship programs, which funnel billions in public money to private schools, is mounting for states.

"School vouchers are increasingly eating up state budgets in a way that I don't think is sustainable long term.." stateline.org/2025/0... #SchoolvoucherScam

"Big Beautiful Bill" in Congress Hurts Poor Children and Establishes New Federal School Vouchers janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/b...

This Supreme Court Decision Could Determine the Future of Charter Schools A ruling in favor of a religious charter school for Oklahoma could disrupt the 'public' status the charter industry enjoys.

NPE Exec Director @carolburris.bsky.social - This Supreme Court Decision Could Determine the Future of Charter Schools in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/publ...

Chief Justice Roberts Blames “Lack of Civics Education” for Breakdown in Respect for Law If this weren’t so pathetic, it would be funny. Chief Justice John Roberts spoke at the Georgetown University Law School about the loss of respect for the rule of law. Did he point his finger…

Chief Justice Roberts Blames "Lack of Civics Education" for Breakdown in Respect for Law dianeravitch.net/2025/05/14/c...

On Teacher Appreciation Week, union leaders say teachers are underpaid and under attack The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.

The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.

‘A giant leap backwards’: Indiana opts out of summer program for hungry schoolchildren • Indiana Capital Chronicle Indiana will no longer participate in a program to feed schoolchildren through direct family payments during summer vacation.

‘A giant leap backwards’: Indiana opts out of summer program for hungry schoolchildren indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/07/a...

Pastors for Texas Children on the Signing of the Voucher Bill One of the most determined opponents of vouchers in Texas was the Pastors for Texas Children. While some faith leaders celebrated the opportunity to get public money for their religious schools, th…

Pastors for Texas Children on the Signing of the Voucher Bill dianeravitch.net/2025/05/06/p...

What Will We All Lose If We Sacrifice Our Public Schools to Vouchers? It is budget season in Ohio, and the current state of the budget legislation does NOT bode well for our state’s public schools, the institutions that anchor our neighborhoods and communities,…

What Will We All Lose If We Sacrifice Our Public Schools to Vouchers? janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/w...

Indiana budget bill curbs university faculty power, ties tenure to new ‘productivity’ reviews • Indiana Capital Chronicle Sweeping changes to how public universities manage faculty tenure and campus governance were quietly added to Indiana’s new budget.

Productivity reviews for tenured faculty will consider their teaching workload, research and time spent overseeing students. "Intellectual diversity" must also be considered in post-tenure reviews.

In a series of cases, far-right law firms have recruited plaintiffs in lawsuits designed to undermine the Establishment Clause protection of the separation of church and state and expand the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause.