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): 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 […]

Jan 18, 2025 - 11:40
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 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

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— 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

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— 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

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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

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— 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

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— 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…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM

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.

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— 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…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM

‘I’m shocked. Shocked!”

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— 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.