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Ben Lebovitz

@balebo.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Candidate | University of Wisconsin-Madison 🌈🏫 Education, Policy, and Politics. 🎶🎭🍷🪴 Free newsletter, QueerED: balebo.substack.com

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/09/2026
Filing a civil rights complaint with the Office of Civil Rights can be parents’ last stop. Following cuts and restructuring, this federal office is no longer serving that same resource. (via @us.theconversation.com) to.pbs.org/4hzjfxh
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Civil rights enforcement cuts mean fewer staff, closed offices, longer waits for students with disabilities
Filing a civil rights complaint with the Office of Civil Rights can be parents’ last stop. Following cuts and restructuring, this federal office is no longer serving that same resource.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
All for “Stupor” intelligence? 🙋‍♂️
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today @advancedequity.bsky.social is releasing a brief taking a look at what's in the recently-released 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)--and also what's missing! www.advancedequity.org/briefs/a-fir...
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership with Kathryn James McGraw, Dayna Muñiz, Qurrat ul Ain Rasheed, and Cheyenne Phillips: "Graduate Student Councils as Sites of Service, Strain, and Possibility: Addressing Organizational Disconnects". doi.org/10.1177/1555...
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
With the upcoming academic year and job market, I’m looking forward to sharing my research, reconnecting with colleagues, and engaging with new audiences. This week, I’m at the SRCD Global Forum, and look forward to SREE, UCEA, ICSEI, AEFP, and AERA.
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New, from me // Most Americans Don't Know a Trans Person. That Explains a Lot. edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/most-ameri...
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Most Americans Don't Know a Trans Person. That Explains a Lot.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Excited to share QueerED #2 and spotlight a great article from @queeringedu.bsky.social. LGBTQ+-Inclusive Curriculum is associated with improved health and academic outcomes for queer youth, yet it's rare even in a state that supports inclusivity. How can school leaders and educators change that?
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today, SCOTUS ruled states can bar trans students from womens' sports. It lets 27 existing bans stand but imposes no national ban. It's also the first issue of QueerED, my new newsletter for LGBTQ+-inclusive schools. I hope you'll read and share! balebo.substack.com/p/queered-tr...
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QueerED: Transgender Youth Participation in Athletics
Issue 001: June 30, 2026. Research to practice for LGBTQ+-inclusive schools and communities.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 30/04/2026
We will not get a second Reconstruction from people who don’t defend the first.
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Liz Meyer (she/her) @lizjmeyer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Excited to share the online publication of our new article in Review of Educational Research. We analyzed 100 articles published since 1993 discussing advocacy & activism for #lgbtq equity in k-12 schools.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm presenting at @aefpweb.bsky.social this week in Chicago! Looking forward to seeing all of this week's great sessions - hope to see you in one of the sessions I'm presenting or a co-author on Thursday or Friday!
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I'm excited to share preliminary results from one of my dissertation papers tomorrow (12pm on Friday, 2/6), kicking off this semester's seminar series for the interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Looking forward to sharing this work!
Seminar poster for Ben Lebovitz presenting "Pathways of Protection: Adult Support, Peer Climate, and Trans Youth Well-Being in Wisconsin" on Friday, February 6, from 12:00-1:30pm in 259 Education Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. 

Abstract: Amid escalating restrictions on educational supports for transgender and gender diverse youth, I consider the roles of adult support and LGBTQ+ peer density as protective factors for transgender students. I use logistic regression, structural equation modeling (SEM), and inverse probability-weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) to analyze data from Wisconsin’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Preliminary results indicate that having a greater number of supportive adults and LGBTQ+ peers is associated with fewer past-year suicide attempts for transgender students. However, the strength and significance of adult support and LGBTQ+ peer density as a moderator between mental health and suicide attempts differ between transgender and cisgender students. These findings provide timely evidence to inform school policies and legislative debates on the importance of gender-inclusive school environments.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Attending #APPAM2025? I’m excited to present the first paper from an emerging project documenting the Trump administration’s unlawful erasure of data, information, and resources across federal agencies. Hope to see you on Saturday morning! 👋
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/06/2025
In case you missed it in the deluge of depravity, the Supreme Court ruled that parents can opt out kids out of lessons on religious grounds. Which will likely lead not only to opt-outs but to a constriction of curriculum, a culture of surveillance, and more teacher shortages in public schools.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
AEFP and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Demolition of IES. www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
Image is the cover of Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad day. Illustration of a little red-headed boy frowning in bed. Illustrations by Ray Cruz.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Served as the “chief” election official for my ward / polling place in WI tonight (my fourth election as chief inspector) and got to spend some quality time with city officials as the result of a wild (party-affiliated) election observer.
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In a new letter, AERA and other education research leaders call on Congress to protect the nation’s education data, research infrastructure, and knowledge base, by safeguarding the IES and broader Education Department staff, leadership, and mission. www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...
The US Capitol Building
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Excited to see @ucea-leadership.bsky.social publish this "Executive Action Tracker" of changes impacting the education landscape. Grateful to have this new resource, hosted by a professional organization (!), addressing current needs in educational policy & leadership. www.ucea.org/executive_ac...
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Executive Action Tracker - University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Matthew Gardner Kelly @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Not to be dramatic (but somehow not dramatic enough)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump says federal funding will stop for colleges, schools allowing 'illegal' protests
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/03/2025
The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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UCEA GSC @uceagsc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
📢 Join the UCEA GSC and AERA LSI's Researcher Development Program next month to hear from Dr. Alex Bowers on Exploring Public Open Education Data & Code using FAIR Data Frameworks in Education! 1/3
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Laura Meckler @laurameckler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEW: Peggy Carr, commissioner of the Nat'l Center on Education Statistics and a two-decade+ veteran at Educ Dept, was abruptly put on leave today. She runs NAEP, the national math and reading tests seen as important marker of educational progress www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Courts rule on Trump administration initiatives including DOGE, DEI
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Beth Tipton @statstipton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
we can and must aim higher! i’m doing my part! are YOU? 🫵🏻
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
YEEEESS congratulations!!! 🎉 Can’t wait to visit you in Philly!!
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I’ve been thinking about everyone’s favorite movie “Don’t Look Up” and have no notes for whoever’s running the current simulation we’re all thriving in.
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Joe Cimpian @handle.invalid · 15/02/2025
This is the current CDC webpage for the most recent YRBS. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/results... A word of advice: Pay attention to the trends reported in the blue box. This is more important than ever... partly because of what is written in the yellow box! Support LGBTQ+ youth! 🏳️‍🌈 Support data! 📊
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Federal law prohibits federal officials from telling schools what they can and cannot teach." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...
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Trump looks to withhold school aid over lessons on equity and gender. Can he?
The federal government is barred by law from mandating what curriculum schools use. But Trump’s order about “discriminatory equity ideology” and “gender ideology” indicates he wants to use his adminis...
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Yesterday, NIH completely removed the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office site, and all affiliated pages, resources, and reports, from the department website. dpcpsi.nih.gov/sgmro
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Revoking the EEO wasn’t on my bingo card for this week, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised knowing Trump’s been playing for a blackout.
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 09/01/2025
‼️ A federal judge in KY has ruled that the Department of Education prohibiting teachers from misgendering and deadnaming students violated their First Amendment Rights. In other words, teacher have the right to harass and bully their students. Disheartening and cruel ruling.
Case: 2:24-cv-00072-DCR-CJS Doc #: 143 Filed: 01/09/25 Page: 9 of 15 - Page
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As the Sixth Circuit recognized in Meriwether v. Hartop, 992 F.3d 492, 508 (6th Cir. 2021),
"[p)ronouns can and do convey a powerful message implicating a sensitive topic of public concern." The plaintiffs reasonably fear that teachers' (and others') speech concerning gender
issues or their failure to use gender-identity-based pronouns would constitute harassment under the Final Rule. Put simply, the First Amendment does not permit the government to chill speech
or compel affirmance of a belief with which the speaker disagrees in this manner. See id. See also
Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705, 714 (1977).
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I’ve grown so much from the research and scholarly environment fostered by @drmcquillan.bsky.social - excited and hopeful to see them and their work get this support and recognition! 🥳 Congratulations to all these deserving scholars. 🎉 wtgrantfoundation.org/ten-finalist...
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Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030 - William T. Grant Foundation
We are pleased to announce the finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Program class of 2030. Ten early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 58 applicants after a rigorous review by our...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
📢 Join us this afternoon at #UCEA2024 in advancing inclusive school supports for LGBTQ+ youth. 📍 Santa Barbara A ⏰ 2:40 PM Happy to have organized this symposium featuring work from @drmcquillan.bsky.social, me, @erinkgill.bsky.social, and @katetothek.bsky.social with discussant Michael O’Malley.
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Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Excited to present a study led by the incredible @drmcquillan.bsky.social today at #UCEA2024 in Los Angeles! So grateful for the work of this research team, alongside Mollie and @erinkgill.bsky.social, highlighting the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusive school district policies for queer youth in WI.
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