This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
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):
When I was a beat reporter in Las Vegas, a municipal judge told me vast majority of young offenders who came through his courtroom shared same “gateway crime” on their rap sheets: Truancy. wapo.st/4432CV3
— @emilysays (@emilysays.bsky.social) June 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Public opinion about immigration is complicated. Public opinion about sending federal agents into K12 schools searching for children is not. Such actions are broadly condemned across the political spectrum.
— David Houston (@dmhouston.bsky.social) June 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Trump officials are vowing to end school desegregation orders. Some parents say they’re still needed apnews.com/article/dese…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The Trump administration’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 calls for significant cuts to higher education funding, including reducing the maximum federal Pell Grant award that roughly 40% of undergraduate students rely on.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“When you change the language and the verbiage of things,” said one therapy facilitator, “it makes it more accessible to students to respond to.”
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In general, if someone is reminding you not to talk to the media, they are benefitting from your silence.
Public employees also have First Amendment rights to talk to the press, on- or off-the-record, regardless of district policy. https://t.co/UChav6xory
— Megan Menchaca (@meganmmenchaca) June 8, 2025
ICE raids, National Guard deployment ‘could not have happened at a worse time’ for L.A. students
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/06/10/los-angeles-high-school-seniors-graduate-amid-ice-raids-troop-deployment/— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) June 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Schools including Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania, and alumni including Conan O’Brien, filed new court documents to support Harvard’s legal battle.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Hard pass——- www.latimes.com/california/s… ‘Learning studio’ is the new high school classroom. Will teachers embrace the concept? – Los Angeles Times
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
All the ways the Trump administration is going after colleges and universities
www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
LAUSD will deploy school police to set up safe zones around campuses, graduations amid ICE raids www.latimes.com/california/s…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Cram schools for kindergartners are the latest in South Korean college prep www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“When you start going down this path that ‘I want my money so that I can send my student to a private school but then I want to turn around so that I can have access to everything else,’ it doesn’t work that way,” said Sen. Mike Zimmer, D-DeWitt, on the Senate floor.
— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) June 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
What Happens if ‘Harvard Is Not Harvard’? is from The NY Times.
Hispanic-Serving College Program Is Discriminatory, Lawsuit Argues is from The NY Times.
Trump wants to cut funding for California schools over one trans athlete. It’s not so easy is from CAL Matters.
Amid fears of pending California education cuts, top Trump official says state is ‘at risk’ is from The LA Times.
Educators Say Worst Fears Realized as High Schoolers Detained by ICE is from The 74.
L.A. Schools Create ‘Perimeters of Safety’ Against ICE Agents is from The 74.
How Much More Positive Head Start Evidence Do We Need to Save It? is from The 74.
State of the States: Five Policy Levers to Improve Math Instruction is from NCTQ.
“America’s future hinges on the success of public education. It’s high time for our elected officials to act as if they’re invested in it.” The latest from me and Ashley Jochim www.realcleareducation.com/articles/202…
— Morgan Polikoff (@mpolikoff.bsky.social) June 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Yeah, why would you put someone who knew about education as head of the national Dept of Education?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Florida Catholic school enrollment is up 12%. At its fastest-growing school, St. Andrew, God’s grace is extended to the above-grade-level and well-behaved. Otherwise, Jesus loves you…somewhere else.
This is the gospel private school vouchers are funding.
— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) June 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Seven Arkansas families filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging an upcoming state requirement that public school classrooms have posted copies of the Ten Commandments, saying the new law will violate their constitutional rights.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Should colleges share the risk of student loan debt? House Republicans think so www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Documents reveal how the Trump administration is making moves to outsource portions of the Education Department’s operations to other Cabinet agencies.
— Politico (@politico.com) June 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Unpacking California’s Continued School Enrollment Decline www.ppic.org/blog/unpacki…
— Paul Bruno (@paul-bruno.com) June 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A federal law helps homeless students get an education. Trump’s budget could weaken it www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Good overview of what’s happening ———How Washington is stressing out American schools wapo.st/4dYjL5v gift link
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
House Republicans have a plan that would force schools to reimburse the government for a share of the federal loans their students don’t repay.
— NPR (@npr.org) June 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
How is this making us safer or more prosperous?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
My full interview with Linda McMahon. www.wsj.com/video/series…
A few interesting tidbits:
-She briefly appears to conflate foreign ‘activists’ and ‘terrorists’ (2:00)
-She reiterates that only Congress can close USED (10:30)
…— Matt Barnum (@mattbarnum.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Thanks @dwallacewells.bsky.social for explaining so clearly what’s at the heart of the 50-state voucher program buried in the big beautiful bill: a war on the entire idea of public goods www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o…
— Jennifer Berkshire (@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This behind paywall & don’t know details,but dist rule sounds ridiculous. I have a rule in my classes that I have to tell students before I take out my phone that it’s for a family, medical or school reason and, if I don’t, I have to bring everyone a treat. Helps a lot – MY rule https://t.co/RVq4UatnR5
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 12, 2025
Supreme Court makes it easier to sue schools over disability accommodations https://t.co/cpkbc49nLl
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 12, 2025
Florida teacher unions keep winning their recertification elections. That story, plus the latest on AI, school choice, campus security and more, in today’s @TB_Times Florida education news roundup.https://t.co/DkwzA0cwUE
— Jeffrey S. Solochek (@JeffSolochek) June 12, 2025
Linda McMahon: “Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish.”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Randi Weingarten Quits D.N.C. Post in Dispute With Chairman www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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