The Dow since Dear Leader took the helm.
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Department of Education Has a DEI Tattling Site - DEI has a history of promoting merit over insider advancements like those being done today to run America. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/department-of-education-has-a-dei?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false #Politics

Teach Truth - The struggle for honest antiracist education. https://tultican.com/2025/02/23/teach-truth/ #EducationMatters

Jeff Bryant: Linda McMahon's Gaslighting of Democratic Senators Was "Elegant" https://dianeravitch.net/2025/02/27/jeff-bryant-linda-mcmahons-haslighting-of-democratic-senators-was-a-class-act/ via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

Thomas Courtney: If ICE Shows Up for One of My Students, They Will Need to Take Me First - The San Diego Teacher has some strong feelings about what will happen if ICE shows up looking for immigrant students to cart away. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/thomas-courtney-if-ice-shows-up-for-one-of-my-students-they-will-need-to-take-me-first/ #EducationMatters

New Report Suggests ‘Pennsylvanians Cannot Afford to Wait Any Longer’ for Cyber Charter School Funding Reform - Pennsylvania’s cyber charters are soaking Pennsylvania taxpayers. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/new-report-suggests-pennsylvanians?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #Privatization

Recommended: Voices from the Field: The Impact of the Implementation of Science of Reading Instruction and Policy on Emergent Bilingual/English Learner Literacy Programs and Teachers https://radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/26/recommended-voices-from-the-field-the-impact-of-the-implementation-of-science-of-reading-instruction-and-policy-on-emergent-bilingual-english-learner-literacy-programs-and-teachers/ via @plthomasEdD #Reading

A Message for Students: Education, Resistance, and the Fight for Justice - This is a time for the courage to standup for just education and human rights. http://cloakinginequity.com/2025/02/26/a-message-for-students-education-resistance-and-the-fight-for-justice/ #EducationMatters

SCIENCE: Ex-Trump Official Warns that Canceled Contracts Will Harm Efforts to Improve Education - Maybe taking money away from the standardized testing industry is a good thing. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/02/26/ex-trump-official-warns-that-canceled-contracts-will-harm-efforts-to-improve-education/ via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

In Teach Truth, Jesse Hagopian writes about the fight to teach children honestly and fight racism. https://tultican.com/2025/02/23/teach-truth/ #EducationMatters

A War on Drugs Revival - California public stampeded into benighted crime policies that won't help crime but will fill jails. @dougporter506 https://open.substack.com/pub/dougporter/p/a-war-on-drugs-revival?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #Crime

Florida: "Support Our Schools" Fights for Public Schools in Sarasota - “As an individual School Board, I’m not asking you to fight the feds,” Martinez said. “I’m asking you to be proactive.” https://dianeravitch.net/2025/02/26/florida-save-our-schools-fight-for-public-dchools-in-sarasota/ via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

In Teach Truth, Jesse Hagopian writes about the fight to teach children honestly and fight racism. https://tultican.com/2025/02/23/teach-truth/ #EducationMatters

Musk's Billionaire Bully Schemes - The increase in Elon's wealth since Trump was elected is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years. @dougporter506 https://open.substack.com/pub/dougporter/p/musks-billionaire-bully-schemes?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false #Politics

Gregory Sampson has reported from Florida that districts are preparing to aid ICE in searching out undocumented children. His first report covered the new policies in Duval schools. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of it. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/gregory-sampson-cold-as-ice-update-2/ #EducationMatters

@thepoliticalcat
It could be but I think it was made without AI.

In places like Florida, teachers are being forced to lie to children. Jesse Hagopian writes about the courageous teachers who are fighting back. https://tultican.com/2025/02/23/teach-truth/ #EducationMatters

Lisa Haver and Deborah Grill of the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools argue that the charter march needs to be stopped. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/lisa-haver-and-deborah-grill-board-must-deny-new-charter-applications/ #Privatization

AI Techno-Bullshit - From one old man to another, I think it sux. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/ai-techno-bullshit?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #Culture

Blitzkrieg on Democracy: A Coordinated Assault on Oversight and Higher Education - A timely and thoughtful essay by Julian Vasquez Heilig. https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/02/24/the-blitzkrieg-on-democracy-the-coordinated-assault-on-oversight-and-higher-education/ via @ProfessorJVH #PoliticsAndEducation