Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
Teaching IS political , and this both sideism op ed is terrible. It’s a companion to the mealy mouthed piece from Times editorial board earlier this week —— www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
apnews.com/article/mass… A town refuses to give up the school’s Native American mascot — and gets Trump’s support
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
apnews.com/article/trum… Door knocks and DNA tests: How the Trump administration plans to keep tabs on 450,000 migrant kids
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fresno Unified trustee Susan Wittrup and the Fresno Teacher Association argued that the district needed an outsider to transform a failing culture.
— EdSource (@edsource.org) May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Funds for Low-Income Students Are on the Chopping Block in Trump’s Budget www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There’s value in fighting back——-Trump administration settles with Maine over funding freeze after dispute over trans athletes www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows the fallacy of ‘doing your own research www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
With more than half of the Education Department’s civil rights offices closed and the division reduced to a fraction of its former staff, families’ pleas for updates and action have gone unheard. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Texas governor signs largest US school voucher law in win for conservatives www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
apnews.com/article/scho… The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hey, Oklahoma students. Here’s your real ‘election fraud’ primer. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
DOGE cuts threaten Sacramento student mentorship program https://t.co/lfotAoWZ36
— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) May 3, 2025
Trump Asks Congress to Slash Billions in Education Funding—and ‘Preserve’ Title I is from Ed Week.
Even as Greg Abbott and Jeff Yass were clinking glasses yesterday to celebrate the passage of school vouchers, candidates who ran as education extremists got wiped out in one school board race after another www.newsweek.com/texas-school…
— Jennifer Berkshire (@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures www.newyorker.com/books/under-…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How Sackets Harbor did ithttps://t.co/LNx4yVVjpe via @opinion
— Alexander Russo (@alexanderrusso) May 4, 2025
All the answers the students got correct on the state test are because of my teaching, and anything they got wrong is the responsibility of other teachers.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A remarkable nugget on Texas voucher eligibility: “The program excludes students whose parents cannot prove their child is a U.S. citizen.”
— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
“It makes it easier to prosecute not just educators or librarians, but also parents and medical professionals, while simultaneously adding vagueness to the definition of what is prohibited.”
— Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Is This the End of the Separation of Church and State? | The New Yorker https://t.co/ohy1Ghyx0k
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 5, 2025
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.
Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
— Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Trump administration calls for a freeze on all new grants to Harvard www.washingtonpost.com/education/20…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The Big Questions About Trump’s K-12 Budget Proposal, Answered is from Ed Week.
This state law seems to be doing a lot of micro managing the problem in a costly way, without providing anywhere enough money
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
More states are allowing community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Teacher appreciation starts with better pay, not gifts www.washingtonpost.com/business/202…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Judge orders Education Department to restore pandemic relief funds in some states
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/05/06/judge-orders-education-department-to-restore-pandemic-relief-money/— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) May 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Head Start avoids Trump’s cuts, but advocates are ready to defend it: ‘There’s too much good in this’ | US education | The Guardian https://t.co/PG54ezMpAY
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 7, 2025
‘And my hope is to make it even more difficult by reducing education funding, restricting curriculum to ensure that you can’t talk about LGBTQ people or racism and make it an even less desirable profession for young people entering the workforce.’ https://t.co/DkAgcfNcVW
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 6, 2025
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“Their school years aren’t much longer than with a traditional schedule, just spread out differently, with their lost summer vacation days added to other breaks during the school year.”
😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒— Morgan Polikoff (@mpolikoff.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I'm adding this next post to The Best Resources For Learning About The Role Of Private Foundations In Education Policy:
I wish Gates would just stay away from schools ——-The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundatio www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This may be entirely unfair, but this is also how I imagine how it looks when many teacher evaluators roll up to schools in Washington, D.C. with the IMPACT program
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
On Teacher Appreciation Week, union leaders say teachers are underpaid and under attack www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
In wartime Russia, schools prepare the next generation of fighters www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
After five years of pandemic pause, defaulted student loan debt collections restart while Republicans in Congress plan to make college financial aid much less generous and remove protections against fraud. My latest for @vox.com — a harsh new era begins.
www.vox.com/education/41...
— Kevin Carey (@kevincarey1.bsky.social) May 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025...
— Peter Greene (@palan57.bsky.social) May 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The new pope’s dad was a public school teacher, principal, and Chicago-area district superintendent.https://t.co/oJErIYeTgS
— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenMI) May 8, 2025
Shout it to the rooftops
Maine fought the law, and Maine won - by Liz Dye https://t.co/GuotEPJzqg
— Alexander Russo (@alexanderrusso) May 8, 2025
“I’d like to add that this might be a good time to check your classroom library, as well as lesson plans, to ensure they are free of any mention of LGBTQ people (unless they are negative mentions) or the presence of racism in past or present American society” https://t.co/WdorsGvIqR
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 8, 2025
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