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Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute - Anti-Catholic bigotry was a big driver. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

ICEing the Epstein Files Trump's Firehose of Lies About Resistance in Portland and Chicago

ICEing the Epstein Files - As happened in Washington DC, a Chicago grand jury has declined to indict protesters charged with interfering with ICE activities. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Cory Turner: What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget - Network For Public Education Writing for NPR, Cory Turner outlines what is on the line in the battle over the 2026 federal budget. Three proposals, and each is grim for education. First up, President Trump’s proposed budget would...

Writing for NPR, Cory Turner outlines what is on the line in the battle over the 2026 federal budget. Three proposals, and each is grim for education. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Jack Hassard: What Happens When You Can’t Trust Government Data? What happens when government data are politicized? What happens when a President fires the professionals who report the data and replace them with his loyalists? Jack Hassard, a retired professor o…

Jack Hassard: What Happens When You Can't Trust Government Data? - It began not with censorship in the usual sense but with a subtraction of knowledge. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/j... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

The Trump Cabal’s “Compact” to Stamp Out Academic Freedom Our reader Christine Langhoff discovered an excellent analysis of the “compact” that the Trump administration has offered to several universities. A “compact” usually refers…

The Trump Cabal's "Compact" to Stamp Out Academic Freedom - He is also stamping out American ideology and introducing authoritarian ideology. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students If you read only one article about what happened to the students, teachers and schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this is the one. Ashana Bigard is a parent of students in New Orleans. …

The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students - A NOLA mother gets to choose which child she can stand with every morning. That’s no choice at all. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute - Even the Rev. Lyman Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s father, was a vocal opponent of Catholics. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationHistory

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

Religious bigotry has shaped public education. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

It's Time to Vote for Prop 50, California Ballots Have Arrived! Don't Delay, Do It Today!

It's Time to Vote for Prop 50, California - Getting the MAGA quislings out of Congress is a necessary first step. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #RealPolitics

A Move Toward Establishing Thought Crime With Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 “[A]s the dominos fall, who will be sympathetic to those accused of supporting ‘domestic terrorism’ if that means that advocating for the free speech of such a person might also make them suspect...?"

A Move Toward Establishing Thought Crime With Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 - We have reached what many have feared—an Orwellian reality. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Curtis Yarvin is Engaging in Two Debates at Yale Curtis Yarvin is the guru for a number of major political figures on the right, including Vice President Vance and tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is hostile to democracy and holds racist views. Y…

Curtis Yarvin is Engaging in Two Debates at Yale - Yarvin’s anti-democratic views demonstrate how extremist key members of the Republican Party have become. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/07/c... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

To Ensure They Qualify for Federal Research Grants, Trump Demands Universities Sign a Compact Declaring Loyalty to His Agenda The Trump administration continued last week to hound the nation’s universities, demanding that they cancel all diversity programs designed to include and welcome students from historically m…

To Ensure They Qualify for Federal Research Grants, Trump Demands Universities Sign a Compact Declaring Loyalty to His Agenda - To get a grant, you need to not demonstrate merit, just ideological fealty. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t... via @janresseger #SickPolitics

Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen: Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That's why we're suing - Network For Public Education A lawsuit is challenging Idaho’s school voucher law, and Republican Representative Stephanie Mickelsen writes in the Idaho Statesman to explain why she has signed onto the suit.  Last week, I added my...

Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen: Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That’s why we’re suing - If by harming you mean destroy their schools, well yeah. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization

MS: Pushing for Privatization Douglas Carswell at the Mississippi Center for Public Policy is excited about all the great privatization pushing that’s been going on in the state lately.

MS: Pushing for Privatization - School choice works? It’s pretty to think so, but that’s not what the evidence says. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization

If the Governor of #Maryland request assistance in removing a domestic terrorist in the #Whitehouse can all the states send their national guard to #WashingtonDC to purge the traitors from congress & this Administration.. #IMPEACHTRUMP #DEPORTmikejohnson #PurgeMAGA #TakeourgovernmentBack #BLUECREW

Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding - More unhinged policies from the want-to-be dictator in the Whitehouse. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/t... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

ICE Picks Fights in Chicago & Portland Rehearsing for US Military Occupying Democratic-Run Cities in the 2028 Elections

ICE Incites in Chicago & Portland - The feeling that the America they loved is gone is pervasive. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time In the post at 9 a.m. today, two scholars of racism and equity explained that Trump’s scrubbing of museums, national parks, and other federal facilities is an attempt to capture control of th…

Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time - An important post. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/06/j... via @dianeravitch #HealthyPolitics

Learn4Life and its related partner, Lifelong Learning, reap millions from schools with little transparency. Looks like another A3 type swindle of state education dollars. enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/art... #Privatization

No, Trump Can’t Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes Someday, somehow, there will be another President of the United States, and his name won’t be Trump. That future President might well be a Democrat. That President might be in a position to e…

No, Trump Can't Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes - Sending troops into American cities is not to be done without significant proof of insurrection or invasion. He is not a king. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/05/n... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

ICYMI: Applefest 25 Edition (10/5) Every year, on the first full weekend of October, my small town turns itself over to Applefest, a small town festival hung on the hook that Johnny Appleseed lived around here for a few years before hi...

ICYMI: Applefest 25 Edition (10/5) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. substack.com/app-link/pos... #EducationMatters

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools? I haven’t written much about AI and education, for several reasons. First, there are already many people writing compellingly and with considerable expertise about the uses and misuses of AI in the…

How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools? - Just who wants us on this one? Well, scammers. And the folks who turned DEI into something to be avoided. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/03/h... via @nancyflanagan #EdTech

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda By Thomas Ultican 9/29/2025 September 9th, propaganda rag, ‘The 74’, published a classic example of anti-public education flummery, “COVID Worsened Long Decline in 12th-Graders’ Reading”. That long…

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b... #EducationMatters

Artificial What Now? Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever is a sobering look at our tech overlords, their crazypants dreams, and the reasons that those dreams are less likely than an actual autonomous automobile.

Artificial What Now? - Since AI is as much over-hyped baloney as reality and 50% of Wall Street Profiting is now based on it, what happens when the public figures out the scam? open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EdTech

Ashana Birgard and Elizabeth Jeffers: Twenty Years After Katrina, the City’s All-Charter Schools System Is Failing Many Families - Network For Public Education Ashana Birgard is the director of Amplify Justice and an educational advocate. Elizabeth Jeffers is an assistant professor at the University of New Orleans. Together they look at the many effects of p...

Ashana Birgard and Elizabeth Jeffers: Twenty Years After Katrina, the City’s All-Charter Schools System Is Failing Many Families networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Private Equity Is Set to Profit From New School Vouchers The school voucher provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is expected to transfer billions of dollars to private schools and companies that contract with public school districts. That includes...

Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is poised to accelerate the privatization of the nation’s school systems — and private equity aims to cash in. Big Ugly bill brings federal school vouchers. jacobin.com/2025/10/priv... #Privatization

The First Review of My New Book! Veteran journalist Eleanor Bader published the very first review of my new book! It’s a great review! The official publication date is October 20, but books are now in print and available. My…

The First Review of My New Book! - My copy is supposed to arrive today. Best wishes for the success of your book. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/t... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

The First Review of My New Book! Veteran journalist Eleanor Bader published the very first review of my new book! It’s a great review! The official publication date is October 20, but books are now in print and available. My…

The First Review of My New Book! - My copy is supposed to arrive today. Best wishes for the success of your book. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/03/t... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters