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):
Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
— NPR (@npr.org) November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Former EdSec @arneduncan.bsky.social is wrong.
Govs likely won’t be able to “ensur[e] that the students with the greatest needs are prioritized” by Trump’s SGO/voucher program. wapo.st/3LkhIP7.
Welner explains why: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/….
@joshcowenmi.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social— National Education Policy Center (@nepc.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations have resisted President Trump’s policies.
— NPR (@npr.org) November 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Company that helped create the SAT to lay off 757 California worker www.sfchronicle.com/california/a…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Democrat Mikie Sherrill will be New Jersey’s next governor, delivering a sharp rebuke to Republicans who hoped to uproot the state’s school funding formula, expand the charter school sector, and launch a private school voucher program.
— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) November 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
As the fate of mayoral control hangs in the balance, Zohran Mamdani inherits a $40 billion school system grappling with low college readiness and high chronic absenteeism.
— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Company that helped create the SAT to lay off 757 California worker www.sfchronicle.com/california/a…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“We got lazy, and we got complacent, and we took for granted that people would choose us because we’re the neighborhood school,” one Florida school board member said.
— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) November 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Students Find Hope at This Makeshift School in Gaza www.nytimes.com/video/world/…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
A Former Teacher Shot by Student, 6, Wins $10M Jury Verdict Against Ex-Assistant Principal www.edweek.org/policy-polit…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Judge orders Education Department to halt ‘partisan’ employee email messages
— Politico (@politico.com) November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Twin Rivers Unified board vote puts Highlands Community Charter’s future in jeopardy
LEARN MORE: buff.ly/SD1ze49
— EdSource (@edsource.org) November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Cornell University says it reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research funds the government cut earlier this year.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My latest story about how the community at Chappell Elementary in Lincoln Square are trying to help a family after ICE took their dad. It’s a look at the disruption and resistance roiling Chicago https://t.co/i4G0v6J0yp pic.twitter.com/PtRwpv8HVU
— Gregory Royal Pratt (@royalpratt) November 7, 2025
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Among Mamdani’s Many Upcoming Challenges: Fixing New York City’s Schools www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/n… gift link
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Trump’s crackdown on foreign students barely impacts enrollment, data shows https://t.co/L6FOtmmotT
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) November 8, 2025
My old district seem incapable of not being dysfunctional ———Sacramento school district eyes cuts to avoid insolvency. What might go? www.sacbee.com/news/local/e…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Jury’s $10 million award to teacher shot by 6-year-old could weigh on school administrator’s criminal case www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
How one photo and a deluge of threats turned an Arizona high school upside down www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The Lack of Evidence for Ubiquitous Classroom Technology is from Larry Cuban.
“Good” Doctors and Teachers (Part 1) is by Larry Cuban. I’m adding it to THE BEST ARTICLES & POSTS DISCUSSING DIFFERENCES & SIMILARITIES TO DOCTORS/TEACHERS & HOSPITALS/SCHOOLS.
An Oregon teen has gone viral online after giving an emotional speech about ICE at a city council meeting.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is a good take that we should apply broadly within—and beyond—education. What each of us does today says a lot about our moral compasses.
— Conor P. Williams (@conorpwilliams.bsky.social) November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Alaska’s public schools can serve as emergency shelters. The buildings are in crisis www.npr.org/2025/11/10/g…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
How kids with disabilities are being harmed by the Trump Administration. slate.com/podcasts/wha…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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