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):
DId you hear? CPS has a new interim CEO, Macquline King. King was the senior director of educational policy in the mayor’s office and she will take over as the school district tries to close a $529 million deficit. Read more from the Sun-Times: https://t.co/LsmAmzHe2F
— UChicago Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) (@ChicagoUTEP) June 16, 2025
Negotiation or Capitulation? How Columbia Got Off Trump’s Hot Seat. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
RIP
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
More details on stats, assessments and research activities that @usedgov.bsky.social has restarted. (click within the story to see the full table) hechingerreport.org/proof-points…
— Jill Barshay (@jillbarshay.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Useful info to share with parents of students
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
NPR speaks with a student from Myanmar who fears his plans to attend graduate school in the U.S. could be derailed by the administration’s newest travel ban.
— NPR (@npr.org) June 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Harvard and the Trump administration return to court over international students www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Immigration Raids Add to Absence Crisis for Schools www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
As students have greater health needs, school nurses are in short supply www.washingtonpost.com/education/20…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
‘A Time of Bitter Celebrations’: Joy and Fear as L.A. Students Graduate Amid ICE Raids www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Many students decide they’re not a ‘math person’ by the end of elementary school, new study shows
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/06/17/many-students-are-bored-in-math-class-and-want-less-online-work/— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) June 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A similar tone and strategy is taken by critics of Inquiry Learning when they claim that teachers don’t provide guidance or supervision – they just leave it all up to students. Arguing against a straw man is far easier than arguing against facts.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A ‘Tsunami’ of Uncertainty Is Crashing Into Federal Funding for Schools is from Ed Week.
“Just make sure the learning environment does not discuss racism, sexism, LGBTQ people, or U.S. History not focused on American exceptionalism” https://t.co/j9pVVaLGN7
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 17, 2025
AmeriCorps’ work with students nationwide in limbo despite halt to federal funding cuts
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/06/17/americorps-injunction-leaves-behind-rural-communities/— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) June 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This year’s Gallup/Walton 2025 Report Card: Student Perspective on U.S. Schools came up, and students gave their schools higher grades than in the past. Here’s a video about it:
CA has what appears to me to be the same law & it’s working fine. Does anyone know why it works here but not in Florida? ——How Florida’s Attempt to Let Teens Sleep Longer Fell Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The hidden bias in college admissions tests: How standardized exams can favor privilege over potential is from The Conversation.
PISA as a Mirror? Only If You Look (how student motivation skews international comparisons) is From Experience to Meaning. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Getting Some Perspective On International Test Comparison Demagoguery.
Republicans’ “big beautiful” bill, if enacted as drafted, would make some of the biggest changes to the federal student loan system in decades.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Educational Choice for Children Act opens the door to waste, fraud, and abuse www.brookings.edu/articles/the…
— Paul Bruno (@paul-bruno.com) June 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
These states making no cellphones in school laws need to be providing money for pouches & additional staff to handle them———The Smartphones Haven’t Defeated Us. Yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Punishing 57,000 Texas students isn’t fighting discrimination wapo.st/3G63kHS
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Absentee rates in five districts cumulatively increased 22% after immigration raids in the Central Valley earlier this year.
— EdSource (@edsource.org) June 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
U.S. bankruptcy Trustee Christopher Murray has filed three suits accusing Infowars host Alex Jones of hiding millions of dollars in cash and property.
— NPR (@npr.org) June 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
California school district faces sex abuse lawsuit. Did L.A.’s $4-billion payout open floodgates? is from The LA Times.
Learning For Justice has just begun a series of articles on “Education Justice.”
Is LAUSD’s cellphone ban working? Here’s what we know after one semester is from The LAist.
What children in poverty could lose from the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ www.npr.org/2025/06/20/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
CPS launched its Teachers Lead Chicago program six years ago. The program has since expanded to include 400 schools and is improving teacher retention.
— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) June 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Federal district judge declined to issue an injunction that would block the Trump administration’s recent cuts to staff and contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences—an agency charged with collecting and analyzing data about both K–12 and higher education.
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Transgender youth, their parents and a doctor who provides transition care to adolescents say the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on such care for minors could have devastating, widespread effects for trans Americans.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Of the 90,000 students enrolled in LAUSD’s “Summer of Learning,” 1,900 students have opted to attend virtually.
— EdSource (@edsource.org) June 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Louisiana’s law requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in all public school classrooms was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court today.
— Axios (@axios.com) June 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A federal appeals court blocks a state law that requires public schools and colleges to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Trump’s Truth Social comments came as a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that would continue blocking the president’s efforts to bar international students from attending Harvard.
— NPR (@npr.org) June 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Chinese students comprise roughly 1 of every 3 international students in California. Will their numbers decline in the Trump era?
— EdSource (@edsource.org) June 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Crews unearth relics of enslaved children’s lives at site of 1760s school wapo.st/3ZGzHne gift link
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Fear and Quiet Resistance Amid a Los Angeles in Turmoil www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Harvard and Trump Restart Talks to Potentially End Bitter Dispute www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Schools at the epicenter of Trump’s deportation campaign in Los Angeles are bracing for an uncertain summer as they work to counteract the fear rippling through their communities. Great story on LAUSD’s response to ICE raids by @kalynbelsha ✏️https://t.co/2wYSdKX0U1
— Jessie Gómez (@jessiereport) June 20, 2025
I’m adding this tweet to The Best Posts & Articles On The Impact Of School Closures — Suggest More!:
Thoughtful reflections here from @Miller4Students on lessons from closing 23 schools: https://t.co/Dqy6Vudcqu
— Chad Aldeman (@ChadAldeman) June 22, 2025
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