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Ajay Srikanth

@ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social
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Passionate about K-12 school funding and English Learners.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Ajay Srikanth @ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Call me a sap but this was a great read
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I guess my question while reading this was: why the insistence that individual proximity would have addressed systemic gaps?
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A new article in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis finds that consequences of redlining persist, with districts with a high concentration of formerly D-graded neighborhoods raising less local revenue & relying disproportionately on state and federal aid. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They all say “I’ll leave!” and then what actually happens is they stay and pay the taxes they just do it like Paul Rudd cleaning up the cafeteria in Wet Hot American Summer
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
God upon hearing this:
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Talladega Nights: Don't Put That Evil On Me, Ricky Bobby!
ALT: Talladega Nights: Don't Put That Evil On Me, Ricky Bobby!
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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ever since the pandemic, we've had a school attendance crisis...right? I have a new essay arguing that the "crisis" narrative is a bit overblown, and may be distracting us from longer-standing issues that predate the pandemic: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1574 🧵
School Attendance in the United States, 1870-2024
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Report: Teachers Are Being Squeezed Financially via @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...
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Report: Teachers Are Being Squeezed Financially
If policy makers are truly concerned about a teacher shortage, this seems like an area to address directly and decisively.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Unpacking Racial Disparities in School Spending: Why “progressiveness” and “comparability” are not enough edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1558
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Unpacking Racial Disparities in School Spending: Why “progressiveness” and “comparability” are not enough
Studies of racial and economic disparities in school funding typically rely on simple spending comparisons or "progressiveness" measures that ignore variation in the cost of achieving common education...
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New- American higher education is designed so that the academically and financially rich get richer through a well-funded education. The startling scope of this unequal structure is documented in a new study by @zbleemer.bsky.social and @jrothst.bsky.social. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/08/18/s...
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
State Constitutional Rights matter - until they don't? (working on new content to replace what schoolfunding.info used to provide). In progress
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The American right is full of trollish bigots. Here's why it's the WNBA's fault.
Enes Kanter Freedom Obviously Doesn’t Belong in the WNBA
But will the league dare to say why?

By Helen Lewis
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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
jvonkorff.substack.com/p/baker-and-... A plug for your book from Jvonkorff on Education
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Baker and DiCarlo's New Book Calls for a Unified Strategy to Combine Funding Reform and School Integration
JvonKorff on Education has been urging that Minnesota must fix its broken school funding system to provide enough funding to provide students of color, lower income students and English language learn...
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
1/ From 2021 through 2022, I was skeptical of the emerging narrative that there was a teacher shortage/exodus crisis. I just didn’t see much data to support it. And I wrote as much. www.chalkbeat.org/2022/3/9/229... But then, to my surprise, the data started to change.
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
While some continue to bloviate that Fauci and blue-states caused so much more harm to children (COVID learning loss?) by closing schools - compared to say - free and open Florida - take note that FL students dropped more during and after COVID in achievement
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Ajay Srikanth @ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How in the world do you write this article without mentioning Texas doesn’t have state income taxes? It’d be like writing about Colorado and not mentioning TABOR…
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/07/2026
I have a new working paper examining how academic schools within universities allocate resources. Using data from HelioCampus, I find that schools cut staff positions first during difficult times and that there are huge variations in delivery costs across universities.
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An Analysis of Academic School Spending in Higher Education
Academic schools, such as colleges and their constituent departments within larger universities, are increasingly being expected to increase revenues and reduce expenditures in a challenging financial...
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Regarding the Brookings report which essentially claims that equity in school funding is a problem solved. Here are trends from regression models of "progressiveness" (high/low poverty spending ratios) and "adequacy" (spending as ratio to cost of national avg. outcomes)
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
THEY - not we - are the ones who chose to present a one-dimensional analysis that supported their conclusion - "equity solved."
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
To make sure you see that one - WE present the alternatives and explain why they are different. They are the ones who chose to present only one version (incompletely done), writing off all others, to arrive at their "equity solved" conclusion.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
i hope tom kean becomes a synonym in our culture for collecting a paycheck while doing absolutely nothing
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
i expect that 1) will be the modal outcome.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If a case record had someone making these remarks about white people, Alito might actually faint from rage. But if you're talking about black people it's fine and not racist at all bsky.app/profile/jame...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."
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Ajay Srikanth @ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Disability Groups Fear RFK Jr.’s New Special Education Role www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/u...
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Disability Groups Fear RFK Jr.’s New Special Education Role
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Ajay Srikanth @ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What a speech! This team has just given so much joy to me and all of NYC.
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Quick slide deck on BS from EDUNOMICS. I'm just too sick of it. So...
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Reposting until it stops!!!! schoolfinance101.com/2026/06/16/m...
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What could possibly go wrong in handing over civil rights enforcement to this DoJ?
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Trump admin recently found a suburban CO district in violation of Title IX in part because "male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams." Turns out, according to the district, those were not athletes but male mascots and managers. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
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61 boys the Trump administration found on girls’ sports rosters? District says they weren’t athletes
Jeffco Public Schools said some girls’ teams “had male managers, trainers, or mascots — not athletes.”
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Me if I was a Spurs fan right now:
Atlantic article asking if sports matter
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Seriously, do the supposed stellar scholars who've revealed to us this learning recession have absolutely no clue of the long term patterns in school funding? post-recession? And the research that's already been done on that?
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Good new stuff:
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Ajay Srikanth @ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students
School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
whatever the political establishment is, it's been wrong time after time about how voters will respond when confronted with a truly vile candidate. plus i always think it's worse to elect folks who are incapable of showing any evidence of public decency. it degrades the discourse and the country.
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John Hollinger @johnhollinger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
As I wrote earlier today, Knicks need to win by 18 to have best scoring margin in an 11-game stretch in NBA history. They just went up 20. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...
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The Knicks are suddenly amazing. What does it mean for the NBA Finals?
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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Knicks have a +19.4 average point differential this postseason, the largest by a team entering the NBA Finals in NBA playoff history. Passed the 2017 Warriors' mark of +16.3.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A searing indictment from @nhannahjones.bsky.social on the collapse of civil rights in America. She has asked over and over — can this country be true multiracial democracy? It will take a radical counterrevolution to the all-encompassing white supremacy of MAGA. I hope we find it within us.
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
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Ajay Srikanth @ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Everyone is better than Jalen Brunson…until it’s time to be better than Jalen Brunson.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I will keep mentioning the segregationist goals of the feds and many other higher ed stakeholders in these interviews and one day a reporter will print it
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Albert Shanker Institute @shankerinst.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The School Finance Indicators Database has a new website! schoolfinancedata.org
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Tracking School Finance Equity and Adequacy Across the U.S.
A collection of sophisticated school finance measures that can be used to assess the adequacy and fairness of state and district revenue, spending, and resource allocation, and to compare these measur...
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"... student characteristics explain the vast majority of variation in student attendance and ... districts have only minor effects on attendance. These results imply that school funding systems based on ADA may unfairly penalize high-poverty school districts." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1436
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How Large are District Effects on Student Attendance? Implications for School Funding Based on Average Daily Attendance
Greater attendance rates in the K-12 grades demonstrate motivation and discipline and contribute to other desired educational outcomes such as cognitive development. A growing number of states incenti...
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is a wild misunderstanding of the NYC public school system. The averages are 40k because there are big disparities, but he misses so many things that NYC does for students that other cities do not. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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A Mediocre Public-School Education for Just $40,000 a Pupil
How New York City’s education budget became an untouchable money pit
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Adequacy, Equity, and Effort: Breaking Down School Finance
Podcast Episode · School Business Insider · March 31 · 46m
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 23/04/2026
You should be glad @mpolikoff.bsky.social read the Piper piece, which apparently was pickled. More importantly, the observations he makes are valuable in and of themselves.
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Ajay Srikanth @ajaysrikanthphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I guess this is kinda progress? You could actually, I don’t know, try to implement the funding formula! Not good enough. Also, ELs are not “non-English speakers”. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Michigan superintendents back weighted aid for non-English speakers
School leaders say districts with children who face more challenges should receive more money. Senate Democrats have proposed a plan to do just that.
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A lot of folks were approvingly sharing Kelsey Piper's post about the problems of educational research. Here's my take. // Ill-Informed Essays About Education Research are Weak and Sloppy. Why? edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/ill-inform...
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Ill-Informed Essays About Education Research are Weak and Sloppy. Why?
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/04/2026
A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work
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A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work
Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.
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