Chris Yarrell
@chrisyarrell.bsky.social
Education attorney | formerly: @CityYear, @NYCSchools, @NYCMayorsOffice | writing on education & civil rights | cat person
Judge Tosses ED’s ‘Professional’ Degree Definition www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Judge Tosses “Professional” Degree Definition
The ruling says the Education Department violated Congress’s instructions by adding criteria strictly limiting which degrees qualify for higher federal student loan borrowing caps.
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“[T]he cultural narratives that Trump has propagandized—the vilification and dehumanization of immigrants and trans people, the shunning of childless women, the idea that Black public officials are all unqualified—stand as a significant barrier to delivering an affordability agenda.”
Affordability Politics Needs a Power Analysis
A renewed focus on the cost of living crisis is a welcome and potentially unifying frame for the political left. Yet unless we confront the Trump administration's consolidated economic, cultural…
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Yeah. A lot of this -- most? -- is absolutely willful ignorance. Especially when said about the South. Any good faith critics of this nature seem to confuse strategies with tactics. He built a toolkit of tactics specific to New York but his strategy is just functional, responsive governance.
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · last mo.The belief that Mamdani’s politics are limited to New York is giving the same energy as “there’s no way a Black man from Chicago, raised in ‘exotic’ Hawaii, with the middle name ‘Hussein’ can become a national figure, let alone win the presidency”
one of the things that really gets me about Landor's case is he gave prison officials a *printed copy* of a court opinion and they *threw it in the trash* and violated him anyway by blocking Landor's lawsuit, the Court is confirming the law was worthless garbage ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lando...
The Supreme Court Just Empowered Prison Guards to Violate Religious Rights With Impunity
The conservatives on the Court often posture as great defenders of religious rights. In reality, they only care about the religious rights of some people.
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sometimes i am struck by the sheer wickedness of this man
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care
"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don’t believe everything you hear in Chicago! From me on the blog today: lpeproject.org/blog/two-dog...
Two Dogmas of LPE Critics
Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don't believe everything you hear in Chicago.
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“Last year, in an interview on Fox News during her first week as education secretary, Ms. McMahon failed to come up with the name of the landmark law for disabled students. For many, the moment underscored the lack of experience that Ms. McMahon, a former pro-wrestling executive, brought to the job”
Disability Groups Fear RFK Jr.’s New Special Education Role
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This looks good
Noah Rosenblum@narosenblum.bsky.social · 2mo agoNow up on @ssrn.bsky.social, my latest with @levmenand.bsky.social on The Case for Administrative Law Pluralism, forthcoming in the exciting new edited collection by @blakeprof.bsky.social, @joshuamacey.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social, and Bijal Shah. (1/4) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The same administration that (with SCOTUS's blessing) says bans on conversion therapy violate the First Amendment is going after professional organizations for *recommending* gender-affirming care, something that is far more clearly pure speech.
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2mo agoThe Trump Regime's FTC, in coordination with Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, has filed suit against the World Professional Association For Transgender Health (WPATH), seeking to destroy the org that promulgates evidence-based gender affirming care recommendations www.ftc.gov/system/files...
Re-upping this piece in light of today’s news on OCR and special education oversight: www.commondreams.org/opinion/stud...
Students Like Grace Pay the Price If Trump Dismantles the Education Department | Common Dreams
For Grace, and for millions of families across the country, what’s at stake isn’t just a matter of policy—it’s the ability to build a future on fair and equal ground for all.
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That Trump is “opposed to racial preferences,” is news to me, and hard to square with, well, basically everything. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
What is LPE? Is it a reaction to law and economics? Does it have a method? What is its normative north star? Amy Kapczynski, Corinne Blalock, Aslı Bâli, Sabeel Rahman, Angela Harris, and Yochai Benkler offer their best answers to these questions in two sentences or less.
What is LPE? An ALPE Lightning Round
What is LPE? Is it a reaction to law and economics? Does it have a method? What is its normative north star? At this year's ALPE conference, Amy Kapczynski, Corinne Blalock, Aslı Bâli, Sabeel Rahman…
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“When the Knicks won the NBA Cup this season, Brunson devised a plan to make sure that the peripheral people in the Knicks organization—medical staff, locker-room attendants, etc.—received a portion of the money that the players get for winning the in-season tournament. This is who Brunson is.” 🎁
Jalen Brunson, NBA champion and finals MVP, is officially the greatest Knick ever (Gift Article)
Jalen Brunson has placed New York back on top of the basketball world, where it belongs.
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New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo agoThe Bengali Knicks poet and the Sikh dholi guys combined forces for a follow-up! Now we just need the sewing machine guy and the ride a bike with stuff on his head guy to meet.
Yes, but let me just clear this up: the scientific world is not divided on whether Musk is an engineering genius. There is near-unanimous agreement that he is not. We have been saying this repeatedly, and would love the non-scientific media to listen.
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Cinnamon stopped by this morning and was clearly thrilled to learn that the Knicks won it all.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Knicks win first NBA title since 1973 with 94-90 victory over Spurs in Game 5.
Working my way through @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social ‘s excellent new piece in the @nyulawreview.bsky.social. nyulawreview.org/wp-content/u...
it’s weird how many articles about students not being able to read have inspired outrage and panic and then just disappeared from memory over the past two or three years—it’s like there’s nothing cumulative about the public conversation
Opponents of the voucher program have often repeated that it subsidizes private school tuition for families who can already afford it. Our analysis showed that is largely true for the more than 3,000 recipients whose families make upward of $173,160 annually. www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...
Can TN voucher families already afford private school? What we learned
Opponents of Tennessee's private school vouchers say it subsidizes tuition for those who can already afford it. We dug in to find out if that's true.
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“Instead of moving closer to fully funding public schools, federal vouchers will provide excuses to fund them less.”
Peter Greene@palan57.bsky.social · 2mo agoWill Federal School Vouchers Help Public Schools? www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...
