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):
This is a good sign ——Senators—Including Republicans—Reject All of Trump’s Proposed Education Cuts www.edweek.org/policy-polit…
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
OPINION: Here’s how we hold on to experienced teachers: Give them the support they need is from The Hechinger Report.
From Head Start to Adult Ed, Trump Narrows Pathway for Undocumented Students is from The 74.
News to me————How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int…
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Really needed them to work in an AI angle to have the perfect convergence of everything I find stomach churning about America in one short clip.
[image or embed]— Benjamin Riley (@benjaminjriley.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
How New York Schools Will Crack Down on Cellphones – The New York Times https://t.co/jwmVP2kssY
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 28, 2025
I’d love to ask her when the Scottish were slaughtered en masse or when the United States government broke treaties with them or stole their land. Did the U.S. government force Scottish children to go to boarding schools to try to erase their culture? https://t.co/p6JpcpMEHD
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) July 28, 2025
I went to a gathering for home-schooling families, in Texas, and wrote about the social and political forces that have led to a big rise in home-schooling since the pandemic. https://t.co/xIzTKs4cGh
— Emma Goldberg (@emmabgo) July 27, 2025
Ryan Walters is such a loser —–Okla. sheriff’s office investigating after school official’s TV showed naked women during meeting www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol…
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is certainly disappointing, to say the least —–Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u…
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Trump Admin. Pauses Ban on Undocumented Kids in Head Start in These States www.edweek.org/policy-polit…
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Every district should have done this months ago and, if they didn’t, there’s no excuse for not doing it now
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) July 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A program at the University of Oklahoma trains much-needed mental health professionals for rural schools in the state. Now, its federal grant funding is on the chopping block.
[image or embed]— NPR (@npr.org) July 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Former Assembly Speaker @anthonyrendonca.bsky.social announced Monday he will run for California’s superintendent of public instruction — with a special focus on student mental health, early childhood programs and protecting state schools from federal actions.
[image or embed]— EdSource (@edsource.org) July 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Brown University strikes agreement with White House to restore lost federal funding is from NPR.
Why a new Trump policy could expel thousands of adult students from classes is from CAL Matters.
What are the top books assigned in U.S. high schools? Turns out they’re mostly the same as thirty years ago. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ…
[image or embed]— Matt Barnum (@mattbarnum.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This may be one of the most dystopian things I’ve ever seen.
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Happy back to school everyone!!— Pete Fuller (@petefullerga.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The capitulation and abandonment of civil rights continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u…
[image or embed]— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Not a good day for anyone ——-Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here’s what they did www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n…
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) August 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Scoop: A group of House and Senate Democrats who attended Harvard are threatening their alma mater with a “rigorous” investigation if the school cuts a deal to end hostilities with President Trump.
[image or embed]— Axios (@axios.com) August 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
kind of ironic that the most popular Dems – southerners like Roy Cooper and Andy Beshear – are popular in part because they led very visible fights against school vouchers. And yet there is intense pressure to get Dems to embrace vouchers in order to *stay relevant* www.politico.com/news/2025/08…
[image or embed]— Jennifer Berkshire (@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social) August 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/n…
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
From Head Start to Adult Ed, Trump Narrows Pathway for Undocumented Students is from The 74.
Picking them off one by one.
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Hang together or hang separately.— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) August 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of science, medical, and other federal grants to UCLA worth nearly $200 million, citing allegations that the university discriminated in admissions and failed to “promote a research environment free of antisemitism.”
[image or embed]— EdSource (@edsource.org) August 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Cold War-era test was a staple of school gyms for half a century before the Obama administration replaced it. Trump says his focus on childhood fitness is for both physical and patriotic reasons.
[image or embed]— NPR (@npr.org) August 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So many vulnerable students, homeless and others, are going to lose out if they do these block grants, particularly in red states
[image or embed]— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) August 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Walters falsely claims investigators cleared him in nude images investigation, ignores questions seeking clarityhttps://t.co/nmmwwnaBKF
— Alexander Russo (@alexanderrusso) August 2, 2025
Revisiting Deceitful Claims about School Funding and Outcomes (a thread) is from School Finance 101. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning That Money Does Matter For Schools.
