Photos from my time off thus far from @aefpweb.bsky.social

Birds forever

Bryan Fischer@bryandfischer.bsky.social · last yr.

We love a wonder dog here in East Lansing

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.

Researchers at a Michigan State University facility dedicated to protecting honey bees are enlisting a four-legged ally to sniff out danger to the prized pollinators.

Some photos from a recent bike ride around my hometown.

4 photos from my visit down to the University of Tennessee - Knoxville

I appreciate that this new voucher accountability legislation draws heavily from a set of guidelines I proposed last fall @nepc.bsky.social If these schemes did what their billionaire backers claim they do, these should be easy to follow. nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

How Can States Make School Voucher Systems More Accountable, Accessible, and Transparent?

As publicly funded private school tuition systems have expanded, independent research has documented their negative outcomes. However, the prevalence of the programs continues to grow. This brief summ...

nepc.colorado.edu

Kris Nordstrom@krisnordstrom.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to Senators @graigmeyer.bsky.social and @jaychaudhuri.bsky.social for introducing the Voucher School Accountability Act. If passed, the bill would make NC a national leader in voucher accountability #ncpol The bill would....(1/4) www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2...

Ah yes, data, the objective reality that we simply observe and in no way, shape, or form create or interpret.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."

Brother how do you think we got them in the first place? How are we already forgetting Unsafe at Any Speed (which admittedly is deeply fitting subtitle for Tesla)

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.” www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

Private interests looking to fundamentally restructure schooling with no regard for - and frankly to the detriment of - students, where have I heard that before?

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

This is, perhaps, the most patently absurd thing I've read in a while. Not only is it just obviously negligent in trying to grind its axe, but the date is an obvious typo (and this is taken from Congress' website [https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr899/BILLS-118hr899ih.pdf])

I just want to stress that - assuming this is following existing trends in both choice and this administration - this is going to be bad policy that will harm students, families, and communities in multiple ways.

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

The president directed several departments to submit plans for using federal funds to expand school choice.

This is a concentration camp built on top of a monument to the inhumanity and barbarism of the U.S. government

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2y ago

BREAKING: Donald Trump says he's directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the U.S. illegally.