A superintendent misspent public funds in Ohio for years. Indicted on multiple felony counts of theft, she permanently lost her educator license in the state. Then she moved to Florida, changed her name and opened a private school.

Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars

As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders -- sometimes with criminal histories -- often don't matter

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The Limits of Our Visibility into the Teacher Workforce www.crafteducation.com/post/the-lim... I'm glad to see this work out now, where we try to get a basic picture of what kinds of K-12 teacher workforce data states make public, and in what form.

‎The Limits of Our Visibility into the Teacher Workforce

A national scan reveals how fragmented data systems prevent states from answering basic questions about teacher shortages and workforce trends.

crafteducation.com

Being near a school in DC makes walking more dangerous. Gift link: wapo.st/4d8ahG8

Walking near a D.C. school raises the chance of being hit by a car, data shows

A Washington Post analysis of accident data shows pedestrians near schools are 24 percent more likely to be hit than elsewhere in the city.

wapo.st

New @Brookings commentary on the consequences of current immigration enforcement campaigns & attacks on immigrant communities for students & schools. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

How immigration enforcement is harming US schools and students | Brookings

Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj examines how aggressive immigration enforcement harms students' attendance, health, and academics.

brookings.edu

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Headed to #AERA2026? Interested in teacher prep, scholarships, or policy implementation? We've got an amazing panel on Sat. 4/11 at 7:45am(!) with @wesleytmorris.bsky.social, LPI, SSTAR lab at UW-Madison, and TPP leaders from UW-Madison and UCLA! convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aer...

Inspired by a recent LinkedIn post by a colleague using Google Trends data, I wanted to explore what search data could tell us about interest in the teaching profession. The answer? Same old story?

AI Is Changing Teacher Hiring. Here’s How: Teachers may not be aware that AI underpins both commercial and DIY hiring systems, raising concerns.

AI Is Changing Teacher Hiring. Here’s How

Teachers may not be aware that AI underpins both commercial and DIY hiring systems, raising concerns.

edweek.org

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE

WATCH: In the first 7 months of Trump’s second term, authorities detained the parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace has held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention.

The 'Southern Surge' states remain the absolute worst places for kids. I wrote about what all the Mississippi takes keep missing educationwars.substack.com/p/oversellin...

Overselling the Mississippi Miracle

Southern poverty is a policy choice

educationwars.substack.com

Recently, I took a page from @anildash.com and thought about the ways teachers use AI for their work but skeptical about whether students should use it. I listened to educators in various contexts for this one. Thoughts? Let me know. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

AI and The Ownership of Teacher Work

How AI is being used to support teachers’ work across assessment, curriculum, and pedagogy.

newamerica.org

Two Minnesota school districts and a teachers union asked a judge to order federal officers to stay away from schools, alleging that the nation’s largest immigration operation has spilled onto campuses, affecting attendance statewide, according to a lawsuit.

Minnesota teachers sue to keep ICE off school property

Two school districts and a teachers union allege that the immigration crackdown has spilled onto campuses and interrupted the functioning of schools across the state.

washingtonpost.com

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff, and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

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Fear, arrests and know-your-rights: How one school district is grappling with ICE coming to town NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students.…

Fear, arrests and know-your-rights: How one school district is grappling with ICE coming to town

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students. As the caller sobbed and struggled to speak, Muñoz realized that immigration enforcement agents had detained a kid from Wilbur Cross, the high school she helps lead. Again. There was a reason why Muñoz was a go-to contact for the student and her guardian: She — and New Haven public schools more broadly — have worked hard to earn the trust of immigrant families in their diverse district, even as the second Trump administration has made it easier for immigration officers to enter schools and launched a mass deportation campaign.

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VERY comprehensive @mprnews.org @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social roundup of how the surge of federal agents in MN is impacting schools, students and educators. Numerous reports of children detained by masked agents. 1/

Kids, staff, parents detained: How federal activity in Minnesota is affecting schools and students

The recent surge in federal law enforcement activity is increasingly affecting school children across the state. Some schools are offering online learning to students to afraid to go to school, while ...

mprnews.org

Really helpful analysis confirming K-12 educators are biggest beneficiaries of PSLF with average forgiveness of **$70,000** (!!!). Changes in federal loan policies/accessibility have huge impacts for teaching candidates and teachers.

Postsecondary Education & Economics Research Center@peerresearch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Study up on Public Service Loan Forgiveness! Our @peerresearch.bsky.social Study Guide on PSLF was recently updated to include NEW data from @usdeptofed.bsky.social showing the average forgiveness amounts of Public Service Loan Forgiveness recipients. www.peer-center.org/research/stu...

"In another filing with the Office of Management and Budget, the administration disclosed that none of the five remaining career Education Department officials with statistical experience had reviewed the proposal, including Matt Soldner, the acting commissioner of [NCES]."

Liz Willen@lizhech.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One tiny indication that this was a rush job is in the Federal Register notice. Both enforce and admissions are misspelled in a proposal that’s all about admissions enforcement. Those words are spelled “admssions” and “enforece.” via @jillbarshay.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

"As educators in this community, our roles have shifted. We are no longer solely facilitators of curriculum and school support; we are gatekeepers of safety and a primary source of emotional support."

Larry Ferlazzo@larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'Fear Is a Thief of Focus.' A Teacher on the Impact of ICE and Renee Nicole Good's Death is new @edweek.org post www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

Two truths: 1) this is a sensible way to keep children and families safe from ICE 2) remote learning harms the most vulnerable children apnews.com/article/immi...

Minneapolis schools offer remote learning as tensions rise over federal immigration enforcement

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing ou...

apnews.com

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say

Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.

wbtv.com

A Trump administration official said Tuesday that today's changes at the U.S. Department of Education are part of a decades-long conservative goal of eliminating the agency. Latest on changes, by @beeschultz3.bsky.social, @caitlynnpeetz.bsky.social, and me: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Most K-12 Programs Will Leave Education Department in Latest Downsizing

The Trump administration announced six agreements to transfer Ed. Dept. programs elsewhere.

edweek.org

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

ICE arrests could hurt student test scores, study says — and not just for immigrants

A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also oc...

chalkbeat.org

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

With the national guard now possibly in D.C. through next summer and immigration detentions continuing to tick up, local parents say they’re struggling to explain this moment to their children. We asked a few experts — including @profmbj.bsky.social — for guidance:

How to explain ICE and the national guard in DC to kids

We asked experts how to discuss ICE, the national guard deployment, and the current political moment with kids.

51st.news

How Uncertified Teachers Went From a Stopgap to an Escalating Crisis: Using uncertified teachers to fill shortages may further destabilize the educator pipeline.

How Uncertified Teachers Went From a Stopgap to an Escalating Crisis

Using uncertified teachers to fill shortages may further destabilize the educator pipeline.

edweek.org

The Education Department is close to functionally disappearing. I didn't think this could happen, and I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Here's a piece I wrote on how the hollowing out is affecting special education: hechingerreport.org/parents-advo...

Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education department

Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group tha...

hechingerreport.org

New: More than $50 billion (yes, with a b) for education is in jeopardy if the Education Department eventually proceeds with the layoffs it implemented last Friday. A federal judge put them on hold as of Wednesday. Here's a list of the affected funding streams: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Education Department Layoffs Would Affect Dozens of Programs. See Which Ones

Entire teams that work on key funding streams may not return to work even when the shutdown ends.

edweek.org

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

theatlantic.com