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):
More than half a million students were out of school because of LA fires this week https://t.co/bEQW3t3K14
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 11, 2025
This is basically great news for schools – for now ——– Gov. Newsom proposes stable school funding in 2025-26 with an ominous warning edsource.org/2025/gov-new… via @edsource.org
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Green light to all the school districts — like the one we covered in our “Grapevine” podcast — that passed policies under the banner of “parents rights” giving teachers authority to deadname and misgender trans kids, even when those kids’ parents demand otherwise
— Mike Hixenbaugh (@mikehixenbaugh.com) January 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Any teacher unwilling to use students’ preferred pronouns needs to get over themselves, and that’s exactly what @khullsyp.bsky.social & I wrote in our upcoming ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
College tuition has fallen significantly at many schools https://t.co/rtqcdahqIN pic.twitter.com/6ftxvynQ4W
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 11, 2025
New York students could get free meals under a plan from Gov. Kathy Hochul https://t.co/I6YnVcKEqO pic.twitter.com/5Wsya2iydr
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 11, 2025
U.S. schools are spending millions on a safety measure to stop bullets and intruders. It does neither. Vendors take advantage of school security officials who have no security background. https://t.co/0jFCbLDq4g via @WSJ
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 12, 2025
What kind of person wakes up in the morning and says to themselves, “Today is a good day to make things harder for Latino high school students!”?———McDonald’s sued over scholarships for Hispanic and Latino students wapo.st/4gOK1jJ
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
In my limited experience, university credential programs spend far less time on this than they should. It doesn’t help that a fair number of faculty in these programs haven’t taught in a k-12 classroom in decades
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I’m adding this post to The Best Resources For Learning Why School Vouchers Are A Bad Idea:
How Religious Schools Became a Billion-Dollar Drain on Public Education www.newyorker.com/magazine/202…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Biden’s Push to Cancel Student Debt Surpasses 5 Million Borrowers – The New York Times https://t.co/UHRhiOIyNk
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 13, 2025
Bad trend imo https://t.co/edKOa7cGBJ pic.twitter.com/3IXmn0CfFw
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 13, 2025
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a bill restricting the use of smartphones at school, following a global trend for such limitations.
— CNN (@cnn.com) January 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hundreds of Teachers Lost Homes in the L.A. Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
‘I’m shocked. Shocked!”
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We, as a nation, can and must do more to end the epidemic of gun violence that afflicts students and schools.
My last big swing at the Council of Economic Advisers.
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www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-…
— Matthew A Kraft (@matthewakraft.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
States adopting vouchers—bright red arrows—often overlap with states where measles vaccine coverage among kindergarteners started low—and has dropped even further. While not necessarily causal, we might expect an individualistic mindset to spill over to other areas.
— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I think this is a reasonable take for a member of congress — we don’t need a national uniform policy about elementary school sports. https://t.co/a0hyKcfja5
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 14, 2025
‘Students are scared’: Border Patrol raids fuel fear in schools edsource.org?page_id=725105 via @edsource
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My main issue with this story is that I am frustrated that, once again, a news outlet interviews a bunch of people about education, but doesn’t bother talking with a single active K-12 teacher———We asked experts to grade Biden’s job on education. They gave it a C average www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Biden’s education secretary made big changes. Here’s what the Trump administration could change next.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) January 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Most voucher users were already in private school anyway.
For the few who do leave public schools, the results are dreadful.
If evidence meant anything, we’d have ended vouchers a decade ago.
Appreciate joining @npr.org
@marketplace.org to discuss.
www.marketplace.org/2025/01/16/t…— Josh Cowen (@joshcowenmsu.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“As debates over school choice, vouchers and privatization of education intensify, making this repository of private school data accessible is more important than ever. ”
@aliceeveryday.bsky.social @larryferlazzo.bsky.social— Love, Ms.O (@maryosteen.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I think he did okay, but the FAFSA debacle is what most people are going to remember https://t.co/XHtgFFzSDl
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 17, 2025
Plus, other research has found that just fear of family member,s deportation causes substantial emotional and academic distress. It’s going to a rough four years
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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): More than half a million students were out of school because of LA fires this week https://t.co/bEQW3t3K14 — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 11, 2025 This is school reform Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
