Peter Greene

A Hurricane in Indianapolis Indiana is facing hurricane level takeover of its public school system without the use of an actual hurricane.

A Hurricane in Indianapolis
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A Federal Book Ban Bill Well, you knew this was coming.

A Federal Book Ban Bill
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School Voucher Math To hear some voucher fans talk, they just want their own money back.

School Voucher Math
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Google faces first lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot encouraged a Florida man to commit suicide Google is accused in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who committed suicide in October, allegedly at the direction of the tech giant's AI chatbot, Gemini.

Gemini is the latest LLM accused of generating text encouraging suicide. How many instances of LLMs generating text encouraging self-harm do we need to reconsider their use in K-12 classrooms? #EduSky www.cbsnews.com/news/jonatha...

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

Lol. This is academic publishing taken to its logical end.

State Law: Ohio's "Dropout Recovery" Charter Schools don't actually need to have any "dropouts". What they do need, though, is less accountability. What started as a David Brennan scam in the early 2000s has graduated to full-on taxpayer theft under current law.

State Law: Ohio's "Dropout Recovery" Charter Schools don't actually need to have any "dropouts". What they do need, though, is less accountability.
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Zooming Out What are book bans and censorship really about?

Zooming Out
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Central Ohio agency linked to controversial Noem DHS immigration ads An agency behind former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's controversial ad campaign has deep Ohio ties.

More specifically an agency linked to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign @dispatch.com
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At least $7.2 million in taxpayer funds has been spent on LEGOs through Arizona's school voucher program, new public records obtained by 12News show 12News uncovered the spending -- including one family spending $30,000 on LEGOs -- after suing Superintendent Horne and Treasurer Yee to obtain ESA public records.

Since 2022, AZ taxpayers funded $7.25M in Legos that individual families kept for themselves.

Every AZ K12 teacher could have spent ~$125 on purchases *for their whole class, present & future* w those "take my toys & go home" Lego sets.

[And yes, my code for this analysis was straight bananas.]

TX: They Don't Want School Choice Texas once again provides proof that many school choice advocates do not actually want school choice at all.

TX: They Don't Want School Choice
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School Voucher Math To hear some voucher fans talk, they just want their own money back.

School Voucher Math
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The Backlash Against School Vouchers Is Showing Up at the Polls A potent issue keeps getting missed by the media

I've been predicting that vouchers are going to end up being a drag on the GOP. Races in NC, Arkansas and Texas show that we're starting to see that educationwars.substack.com/p/the-backla...

Teach For Awhile For America Wendy Kopp, the woman who hatched Teach for America, popped up in The Atlantic with an odd reflection on “first jobs” and teaching, and, well, there’s a lot of subtext to unpack.

Plenty has been said abt TFA’s disrespect for career teachers (”Step aside, Grandma and let me show you how we smart Ivy Leaguers get the job done”) & the absurd condescension of insisting a top college kid can pretty much master the work in 5-wk training curmudgucation.substack.com/p/teach-for-...

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A Voucher By Any Other Name Voucher supporters have one major problem: school vouchers are unpopular. The tern doesn't test well. Measure of public support is iffy-- if you ask people if they would like every student to have the...

A Voucher By Any Other Name
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State Law: Ohio's "Dropout Recovery" Charter Schools don't actually need to have any "dropouts". What they do need, though, is less accountability. What started as a David Brennan scam in the early 2000s has graduated to full-on taxpayer theft under current law.

State Law: Ohio's "Dropout Recovery" Charter Schools don't actually need to have any "dropouts". What they do need, though, is less accountability.
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I would edit: It incentivizes taxpayer to donate to scholarship organizations, which them provide funds to WHOMEVER THEY DECIDE. There are no giving criteria, need-based or otherwise. & it's not "parental choice." The entity exercising choice over use of public funds here is the org, not the family.

"It sure looks like TX would like to provide taxpayer dollars only to certain schs..connected to certain religions...which inevitably involves the State deciding which religions are legitimate."

Relatively early on in the ChatGPT era Grammarly reached out to me to talk because they thought someone like me might "approve" of what they were doing in terms of support, not replacement. They've apparently entirely pivoted to substitution of student effort as their business model. Gross.

What Was Happening in Education the Year You Began Teaching? Teachers, what was the big education story when you started teaching? Find out in our interactive timeline.

This was an interesting interactive from @edweek.org -----What Was Happening in Education the Year You Began Teaching? www.edweek.org/the-state-of...

TX: They Don't Want School Choice Texas once again provides proof that many school choice advocates do not actually want school choice at all.

TX: They Don't Want School Choice
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Former UM president Seth Bodnar officially launches campaign as independent vs. Daines Former University of Montana president Seth Bodnar announced on Wednesday his bid as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate, making official one of the worst-kept secrets in state politics so

One of my former students www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/former-...

Over 20% of Arizona ESA purchases were 'unallowable,' audit finds An audit revealed over 20% of Arizona ESA purchases may be unallowed, including video games, gift cards and condoms.

I'm thrilled to see unallowable purchases called out, but the real scandal is what is allowed & the absence of oversight to ensure kids are being educated.

Public money=public accountability. Require every ESA kid be tested on core academic subjects every year, and publicly report results

Families scramble for options after Hogan Prep Elementary announces closure Families are scrambling to find placement for their students after Hogan Prep announced the closure of its elementary school.

Families scramble for options after Hogan Prep Elementary announces closure www.kctv5.com/2026/0... #AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal

A Backdoor School Voucher Scheme That Sidesteps Civil Rights and Undermines Public Oversight Modern school voucher programs are often framed as a response to declining academic achievement and a way to expand “parent choice” by enabling private

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Experts liken potential Supreme Court reversal of school funding rulings to overturning Roe v. Wade - Concord Monitor If the New Hampshire Supreme Court heeds the state’s anticipated request to overrule a pair of landmark school funding rulings, it would be among the most significant reversals of precedent in the cou...

New Hampshire's landmark school funding ruling is under fire in the court www.concordmonitor.com/2026/03/02/e...

Texas sued over excluding Islamic schools in voucher program The federal lawsuit argues Texas officials are engaging in religious discrimination by preventing Islamic private schools from accessing state voucher money.

Muslim parent sues Texas over exclusion of Islamic private schools in voucher program www.texastribune.org/2026/03/02/t...

They're actively trying to enforce civil rights protections-- it's just that the only people whose civil rights they think are being infringed are white male christians.

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

unallowable expenses arizona ESAs

I'm writing the wildest code of my life for a project on Arizona taxpayer funded ESAs (vouchers).

gen sexystuff=strpos(vendor_key, "insane words for public ed")

Purchases below are drawn from multiple ESA accounts. I'm not going to write them here bc my post will get blocked, but see ⬇️